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 the closest European capital city to London
• 1.4 million people live in the city-region
• Over 400 overseas companies have located in the Cardiff region over the past 30 years.
• Cardiff is one of the most fibred cities in the world – with more fibre underground than San Francisco!
• The world famous BBC Doctor Who is filmed and produced in Cardiff
• Cardiff is one of the flattest cities in Britain and has more sunlight than Milan.
• The world’s first £1million cheque was signed in Cardiff’s coal exchange
• The Romans settled in Cardiff in 55AD and built a military fort on the site of Cardiff Castle
• Cardiff became a city in 1905 and was crowned the capital of Wales in 1955
• Cardiff is said to have the most trees per head of population of any city in the UK.
• Captain Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole sailed from Cardiff. There is a memorial to the expedition, shaped like a lighthouse, in the city's Roath Park.