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Extract from the Tintagel and Boscastle Travel Guides:
East of Port Isaac, the coast is wild and unspoilt, making for some steep and strenuous walking, and providing an appropriate backdrop for the black, forsaken ruins of
Tintagel Castle
(daily: April to mid-July & late Aug to Sept 10am-6pm; mid-July to late Aug 10am-7pm; Oct 10am-5pm; Nov-March 10am-4pm; 3; EH). It was the twelfth-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth who first popularized the notion that this was the
birthplace of King Arthur
, son of Uther Pendragon and Ygrayne, but by that time local folklore was already saturated with tales of King Mark of Cornwall, Tristan and Iseult, Arthur and the knights o...
read the whole Tintagel and Boscastle Travel Guides...
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