Strata Florida Abbey/ Abaty Ystrad Fflur

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Strata Florida Abbey | Cadw

Grand medieval abbey where generations of Welsh princes are buried The abbey of Strata Florida – Latin for ‘Vale of Flowers’ – has stood on lush meadows beside the banks of the river Teifi since 1201. It was established by white-robed Cistercian monks as part of a movement that spread like a tidal wave across the whole of western Europe in the early Middle Ages. Soon it became the most famous church in Wales after St Davids –­ a place of pilgrimage and a linchpin of Welsh culture.