Formerly Gwent, Monmouthshire is another border county much fought over with castles and ruins the legacy in particular of Llewellyn The Great's resistance to the English, and of the quiet sought here by Cistercian and Augustinian monks.
Tintern Abbey, in the Wye Valley, is one of the finest relics of Britain's monastic age, having been founded in the 12th century by the Cistercian order and finally sacked by Henry VIII in 1536.
Caerleon, near Newport, is the site of the Roman fortress of Isca (built AD75). Its relics are displayed in the Legionary Museum.
Usk has the Museum of Rural Life and Monmouth the early Georgian Shire Hall. Offa's Dyke runs along the river Wye as the southern part of its 168-mile length. It was an earthwork built by King Offa of Mercia in the 8th century and is now a challenging walk.
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