Beautiful stone archway; part of the Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida (‘Vale of Flowers’ in Latin), which has stood on lush meadows beside the banks of the river Teifi since 1184.
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.
