Cardiff

City Factsheet

Location: South Wales

Population size: 285,000

The best way to get around: By foot or on one of the hop-on hop-off buses. Try a City Rider ticket for one day’s unlimited travel.

New this year: the cosmopolitan Cardiff Bay development includes restaurants, cafes and a huge marina. Wales Rally GB.

Attractions: Cardiff Castle, The National Museum and Gallery, the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans, Millennium Stadium

Restaurants: Visitors can choose from a wide selection of restaurants and cafes. Some excellent examples include:

Le Monde (French-style brasserie) Armless Dragon (Welsh cuisine)
62 St Mary Street 97 Wyverne Road, Cathays

The Thai House (Thai) Le Gallois (French cuisine)
3-5 Guildford Crescent, Churchill Way 8 Romilly Crescent, Canton

Bars: Visitors can choose from a wide selection of pubs and bars, why not check out the following:

Ha Ha! Bar & Canteen Bar M
The Friary, Off Queen Street 31 Westgate Street

V Club Union / Undeb
Off St Mary Street 23 Womanby Street

Shops: As well as the high street stores in the pedestrianised centre a great place to browse is Castle Welsh Crafts, opposite the castle itself. Alternatively head to one of the many arcades for designer boutiques.

Architecture: Check out Cardiff Castle, the Civic Centre, The National Museum and Gallery and the City Hall and Law Courts. Cardiff Bay has some interesting new buildings.

Parks: The beautiful Bute Park, once the private estate of the Castle, stretches for a couple of miles along the river as far as Llandaff and is the ‘green lung’ of the city. The park contains an arboretum, colourful flowerbeds, a gorsedd stone circle and the foundations of an old priory.