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The Seven Wonders of Wales ((ウェールズ語:Saith Rhyfeddod Cymru)) is a traditional list of notable landmarks in North Wales, commemorated in an anonymously written rhyme: :Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple, :Snowdon's mountain without its people, :Overton yew trees, St Winefride's well, :Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells. The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales.〔(Wales on Britannia: Seven Wonders of Wales ), britannia.com〕 The specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of the "five wonders of Wales, though like the seven wonders of Dauphiny, they turn out to be no wonders at all out of the Principality".〔Letter to Mr. Gough, July 20, 1770, in ''Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century'', v.5, Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1828, p.583〕 The seven wonders comprise: == Notes and references == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven Wonders of Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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