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Aviary Terrace, Powis Castle

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Aviary Terrace, Powis Castle
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Aviary Terrace, Powis Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Powys, Wales. Perhaps birds filled the terrace while people watched from below. Maybe the castle walls existed to keep something out, not something in. Imagine a place where seeing and being seen reversed themselves before anyone understood the rule.
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Aviary Terrace is part of Powis Castle, a medieval fortress in Powys, Wales, originally built by the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Rhys in the 12th century and later held by the Clwyd family and the Earls of Powis. The terrace is remembered for its historical association with the castle's ornamental gardens and its role in the estate's landscape design.

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Photo: Ian Capper · CC BY-SA 2.0