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Cardiff is well known as ‘Europe’s Youngest Capital’ but its history dates back more than 2000 years to the Romans. It was once one of the busiest ports in the world, exporting the coal that fuelled the industrial revolution in Britain. Evidence of South Wales’ famous history can be seen all around the city and surrounding areas.
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Cardiff is a friendly and cosmopolitan
city in which all nationalities and beliefs are represented and respected.
Recent visitor surveys place it right at the top of the friendliness league.
Culture
Cardiff is full of culture and heritage. It caters for
its multicultural population with international cultural festivals, cinemas
that show films from all over the world and restaurants with authentic international fare.
Cultural attractions include the world-renowned Museum of Welsh Life,
which is established as one of Europe's foremost open-air museums. It is
Wales' most popular heritage attraction and shows how the people of Wales lived,
worked and spent their leisure time over the last five hundred years. Entrance to this,
and all of Wales’ museums, is free.
Cardiff’s excellent museum houses one of the best Impressionist collections in Europe.
There are numerous spectacular castles; Caerphilly castle is the second
biggest castle in Great Britain (20-minutes away), whilst Cardiff Castle
(3-minutes walk from the school) has a history spanning 2,000 years.
Cardiff’s most recent cultural addition is the Wales Millennium Centre,
which is undoubtedly the most exciting cultural initiative happening in Europe today.
The massive, imposing building will quickly stand alongside the worlds leading cultural
centres and is home to our summer school!
Testimony to Cardiff’s growing reputation is that it is now a designated
Centre of Culture, an accolade received for being short-listed for the title of
European Capital of Culture 2008.
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