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Extract from the St David's Travel Guides:
ST DAVID'S
(Tyddewi) is one of the most enchanting spots in Britain. This miniature city sits back from its purple- and gold-flecked cathedral at the very westernmost point of Wales in bleak, treeless countryside. Spiritually, it is the centre of Welsh ecclesiasticism. Traditionally founded by the Welsh patron saint himself in 550 AD, the see of St David's has drawn pilgrims for a millennium and a half - William the Conqueror included - and by 1120, Pope Calixtus II decreed that two journeys to St David's were the spiritual equivalent of one to Rome. The surrounding city - in reality, never much more than a large village - grew up in the sha...
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