词条 | Seven Wonders of Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|caption=The Seven Wonders of Wales |width=245 |places={{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=53.068864|long=-4.075589| label=Snowdon|label_size =75|position=left|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=52.854992|long=-3.378539 |label=Pistyll Rhaeadr|label_size =75|position=bottom|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=53.0442|long=-2.9927 |label=Wrexham|label_size =75|position=left|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=52.96989|long=-2.93357 |label=Overton|label_size =75|position=bottom|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=53.2771|long=-3.2236 |label=St Winefride's Well|label_size =75|position=top|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=52.97|long=-3.17 |label=Llangollen|label_size =75|position=left|marksize=6}}{{Location map~|UK Wales|lat=53.088|long=-2.9773 |label=Gresford|label_size =75|position=right|marksize=6}} }} The Seven Wonders of Wales ({{lang-cy|Saith Rhyfeddod Cymru}}) is a traditional list of notable landmarks in north Wales, commemorated in an anonymously written rhyme: Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple, Snowdon's mountain without its people, Overton yew trees, St Winefride's well, Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells. The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales.[1] The specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of the "five wonders of Wales, though like the seven wonders of Dauphiny, they turn out to be no wonders at all out of the Principality".[2] The seven wonders comprise:
Notes and references1. ^Wales on Britannia: Seven Wonders of Wales, britannia.com 2. ^Letter to Mr. Gough, July 20, 1770, in Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century, v.5, Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1828, p.583 See also
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