Tenby, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

On a natural promontory of great strategic importance, the beguilingly old-fashioned resort of TENBY (Dinbych-y-Pysgod), wedged between two sweeping beaches fronting an island-studded seascape, is everything a seaside resort should be. Narrow streets wind down from the medieval centre to the harbour past miniature gardens fashioned to catch the afternoon sun. Steps lead down the steeper slopes to dockside arches which still house fishmongers selling the morning's catch. Tenby has a long pedigree. First mentioned in a ninth-century bardic poem, the town grew under the twelfth-century Normans, who … more »