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Cae Mabon - The Fairy Tale Village
(Entrance of Cae Mabon)
Cae Mabon is a retreat centre in North Wales. It is set in an oak forest close to the remnants of Dinorwic Quarry, a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in north Wales, and on the opposite side of the Padarn lake from the town of Llanberis, a village in Gwynedd, North Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
The centre has been run by its founder, local storyteller, author and songwriter Eric Maddern, since 1989 and is well regarded for the beauty of its natural setting as well as the architecture of its alternative, low-impact buildings.
In 2008, Cae Mabon was placed as number one natural building project in the UK in the top ten list compiled by Professor Tom Woolley for sustain magazine. In the same year, Cae Mabon was granted retrospective planning permission on all its alternatively constructed buildings by the local authority after support was shown for Cae Mabon by prominent local figures such as Dafydd Iwan.
The name 'Cae Mabon' means 'Field of Mabon' in Welsh, referring to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Y Mabinogion, a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cae_Mabon
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