Posts Tagged ‘Cardiff’

A Few Facts About The Welsh Castles (Part 1)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

These castles are some of the best Wales have to offer. Some of them are visited by thousands and some of them just a couple of hundred every year. Take a look and decide on the best one to visit!

Cardiff Castle

The Romans were the first to use the castle and it can be found right in the middle of a very busy city. When the Normans took control they covered the original fort with earthen ramparts and made their own defences. during the course of the next few centuries the castle was always getting the odd improvements. Many things happened during the 12th century including a stone keep and between the 13th and 14th a gatehouse and the black tower were both added. After this the later centuries proved to be hard on the castle and were only renovated to what people see it as today in the late 18th century.

Chepstow Castle

This castle was in the making a year after the Battle Of Hastings and was actually built very close to the river Wye. Chepstow it would seem was a quiet castle for its time, rarely seeing a battle. It was modified a lot in the 12th and 13th centuries and the importance of it declined in the 14th century. After the big battles in 1690 the castles defences were taken down and the castle was handed in the state a long time in the future in the year 1953.

These are just two of the castles that Wales has to offer the general pubic which of course means that you can personally see the inside of both these buildings along with your family on one of those family days out. Family holidays UK are very popular in Wales and both of these castles see a large amount of guests, do not miss out and visit Wales soon.

Vacations In Cardiff, Wales and Some Important Facts

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Cardiff is not just the capital city of Wales, bit also it is the most popular visitor destination in the United Kingdom of Great Britain outside London. Cardiff is also the biggest of the cities in Wales, but the city was only only a pretty small town until the time of the start of the 19th century. It was in the early eighteen hundreds when the town developed into a considerably busy port involved in the transportation of Welsh coal, and also other local industry. The town of Cardiff received city status on the twenty eighth of October nineteen hundred and five from King Edward VII of England, however, weirdly, the city of Cardiff only became the capital city of Wales on the twentieth of December 1955. Following this Cardiff soon became the place of choice for most national institutions, including the National Museum of Wales, the Welsh National War Memorial and the University of Wales Registry Building. For a sustained period of time now the Cardiff businesses involved in Information and Technology have witnessed incredible growth rates along with, although to a lesser degree other areas of business, most noticeably in service industries. The industry of tourism has also grown considerably and these days there are surprising numbers of establishments supplying Cardiff bed & breakfast accommodation.

Visitor Attractions To Visit In Cardiff

Though Cardiff has been a city for only one hundred years, surprisingly a castle has been at the site for an estimated two thousand years. The currently standing Cardiff Castle is, most likely, the city’s most popular visitor attraction and can be discovered right in the very middle of the city centre. It is possible for people to partake in a guided tour through the castle interior, and, take a stimulating stroll around the amazingly picturesque gardens of the castle. There is also a recently opened Interpretation Centre at the castle which shows the various development stages, of the castle,  across time from Roman times to the present day.

Cardiff also has a fair few modern visitor attractions including the incredibly interesting Techniquest, one of the United Kingdom’s most popular centres for Science Discovery. At the Science Discovery centre folk will find more than 100 hands on exhibits, designed to both fascinate and entertain groups of all ages. Within the centre there is a laboratory, a Discovery Room, a planetarium and a hi-tech Science Theatre.

There are many many more tourist attractions to see in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, so, if you are currently considering spending a few weeks there it is immensely important that you book your  rooms as early as possible as, sadly hotels in Cardiff tend to be surprisingly busy and are often fully booked for weeks or even months in advance. If you are travelling in a large group you might find that Cardiff apartment accommodation proves to be a cheaper alternative by comparison with bed and breakfast accommodation.