The leek - and other answers to Wales FAQ's

Take a leek, some lamb, turnips, potatoes, flour, carrots and call it cawl. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/wales/ilovewales/sections/food/cawl. The leek is the national symbol for Wales. See www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Wales-History/TheLeek. More on how you cook a leek: www.red4.co.uk/Recipes/cawlcennin.

Wales is big on interesting facts. The patron saint of Wales is St. David and he was a vegetarian. See www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/StDavids.
Edward I of England conducted the campaigns against the Welsh, building many castles. See details at www.britainexpress.com/wales/history/edwardian-castles.

The Welsh flag motif is the red dragon. See its flag at www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Wales-History/WelshDragon; and at crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-wales. Click on y dDraig gogh (the red dragon) for its full story. The language alone is magical. A dragon denoted a Roman cohort, or 1/10 of a legion. From that, the color changed with the differing groups using the standard, and today there is no dragon representing Wales on the Union Jack. The Prince of Wales, following Edward I's conquest, had lions rather than a dragon - read the full tale at http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-wales.
You could do a country's history based on its coins or its flags.

And St. Patrick may have been born in Wales. See www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Wales-History/StPatrick.

See more at www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Wales-History/index.

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