In Popular Culture
- The song Men of Harlech is associated with the town, and is traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege of the castle between 1461 and 1468.
- Mari Strachan's 2009 novel The Earth Hums in B Flat (2009) is set in Harlech in the 1950s.
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