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Extract from the Llanwrtyd Wells Travel Guides:
Of the four spa towns,
LLANWRTYD WELLS
, twenty miles northwest of Brecon, is the most appealing. It's more Welsh, less spoilt and in more beautiful surroundings than the other three. This was the spa to which the Welsh - farmers of Dyfed alongside the Nonconformist middle classes from Glamorgan - came to the great
eisteddfodau
(festivals of Welsh music, dance and poetry) in the valley of the Irfon.
South of where the Main Street crosses the turbulent Irfon, a lane winds for half a mile along the river to the
Dolecoed Hotel
, built near the original sulphurous spring. Although the... read the whole Llanwrtyd Wells Travel Guides...
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