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Cardiff Property For Sale & Rent
Cardiff is the largest city in Wales and the country's capital.
Located on the South Wales coast being 2 hours from London, 1 hour from Dublin and Paris, Cardiff is a relatively modern city. Known as "Europe's Youngest Capital", the city grew rapidly from
a few hundred inhabitants, mostly fishermen or living on small farms, to more than a quarter of a million, in the space of just 75 years, it is administered as a unitary
authority it was a small town until the early nineteenth century and came to prominence following the arrival of industry in the region and the use of Cardiff as a major port for the
transport of coal.
Cardiff was made a city in 1905 and proclaimed capital of Wales in 1955, surrounded by mountains to the north, and the sea to the south, and containing one of the world's
finest civic centres, shopping can be found in friendly Arcades and wide and clean traffic-free streets, Quality stores side by side with smaller family-friendly shops. Cinemas,
theatres, art galleries, museums, night-clubs, rugby, football, University and several colleges and the Welsh Assembly (Parliament) a Airport, concert halls, ice skating, Cardiff's
centre is a particularly green one with Bute Park, formally the castle grounds, extending northwards from the top of the Cardiff's main shopping street (Queen Street); combined with
the adjacent Llandaff Fields to the northwest it makes a massive
open space skirting the river Taff.
The popular name of Taffy,
for the Welshman abroad has its origins in the name of the
river. It is possible to cycle from Cardiff to Brecon
almost completely off road on a cycle route which follows the
River Taff and old disused railways of the Glamorganshire
valleys Cardiff is a wonderful city for the visitor to
spend a day or two, or perhaps a week or more. With a wide range
of things to do, places to visit and great entertainment.
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