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History of Cantebury

Canterbury is renowned for its ancient buildings and narrow cobbled streets, its history is even more colorful. Canterbury, without a doubt is England most famous Cathedral City and has been welcoming visitors for many centuries long before the present structure of the cathedral itself. St Augustine founded the cathedral in 597AD shortly after he arrived from Rome, it was the country's first cathedral. Archbishop Lanfranc began the present structure that dominates the city's skyline in 1071. Today the cathedral is the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and in its Romanesque crypt houses the tombs of Henry IV and The Black Prince, son of Edward III. All over Canterbury from the cathedral, St Augustine Abbey to St Martins Church you will find places of worship brought or greatly influenced by St Augustine himself, who is said to have founded the very roots of Christianity in England.

Before this the Romans knew Canterbury as Durovernum Cantiacorum.Little remains of what was a large Roman town, but at the Roman Museum in Canterbury you can learn about Durovernum Cantiacorum. The museum itself is built around the ruins of a Roman Town house that still has some beautiful mosaics.

Canterbury also has a Norman Castle and one of England's finest medieval fortified gatehouses.

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