Did you know?

Cardiff has been named as one of the top 10 cities in Europe. Over 319,700 friendly people live here and call it home. We have 149 pubs, bars and nightclubs (18 of them on the waterfront), 73 restaurants and 125 hotels.

• Cardiff is one of the flattest cities in Britain and has more sunlight than Milan.
• Nelson Mandela has the freedom of the City.
• The Coal Exchange in Cardiff Bay is where Britain's first million pound deal was struck.
• Cardiff houses the oldest record shop in the world, Spillers, established in 1879.
• Cardiff has one of the biggest collections of Impressionist paintings outside of Paris at National Museum Cardiff.
• The City's Royal Arcade is the only arcade in Britain with three storeys.
• Cardiff has been designated a ‘Centre for Culture'.