Cardiff City Capital of Wales
Cardiff (Welsh: Caerdydd) is the capital of Wales, and its largest UK city. It was a small town until the early nineteenth century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the area contributed to its rise as a major city. Today it is the 11th largest city in the United Kingdom, it is Wales’ central business focus, the base for Welsh media and most national cultural institutions, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales.
Caerdydd (the Welsh name of the city) derives from the earlier Welsh form Caerdyf. The change from -dyf to -dydd shows demonstrates the casual modification of Welsh f [v] and dd [ð], and maybe likes driven by folk etymology (dydd is Welsh for ‘day’ whereas *dyf has conspicuous importance). This sound change had most likely originally happened in the Middle Ages; the two structures were present in the Tudor time frame.
Caerdyf has its roots in post Roman Brythonic words signifying “the fort of the Taff”. The stronghold most likely alludes to that established by the Romans. Caer is Welsh for fort and -dyf is in actuality a type of Taf (Taff), the river which streams via Cardiff Castle, with the ⟨t⟩ demonstrating consonant mutation to ⟨d⟩ and the vowel appearing because of a (lost) genitive case finishing.
Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities.
History of Cardiff, United Kingdom
Archeological proof from locales in and around Cardiff: the St Lythans burial chamber near Wenvoe, (roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) toward the west of Cardiff city centre); the Cae’rarfau Chambered Tomb, Creigiau(about 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Cardiff city centre) and the Gwern y Cleppa Long Barrow, close Coedkernew, the Tinkinswood entombment load, close St Nicholas (around 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Cardiff city centre), Newport (around 8 miles (13 km) upper east of Cardiff city centre), all demonstrate that people had settled in the zone by at least around 6000 BC, during the early Neolithic; around 1,500 years before either the Great Pyramid of Giza or Stonehenge was completed.
Until the Roman triumph of Britain, Cardiff was a piece of the territory of the Silures a Celtic British clan that thrived in the Iron Age whose region incorporated the territories that would end up known as Breconshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan.
The anglicized structure Cardiff is gotten from Caerdyf, with the Welsh f [v] obtained as ff/f/, as likewise occurs in Taff (from Welsh Taf) and Llandaff (from Welsh Llandaf). As English does not have the vowel [ɨ] the last vowel has been obtained as/ɪ/. The classicist William Camden (1551–1623) recommended that the name Cardiff may get from *Caer-Didi(“the Fort of Didius”), a name probably given out of appreciation for Aulus Didius Gallus, governor of a close-by area when the Roman fort was set up. Albeit a few sources rehash this hypothesis, it has been dismissed on phonetic grounds by present day researchers, for example, Professor Gwynedd Pierce.
In 1905, Cardiff was made a city and announced the capital of Wales in 1955. The Cardiff Built-up Area covers a somewhat bigger territory outside the county boundary and incorporates the towns of Penarth and Dinas Powys.
Since the 1980s, Cardiff has seen huge improvement. Another waterfront region at Cardiff Bay contains the Senedd building, home to the Welsh Assembly and the Wales Millennium Centre arts complex. Current improvements incorporate the continuation of the redevelopment of the Cardiff Bay and city centre areas. The 3.2-hectare (8-acre) fort established by the Romans close to the mouth of the River Taff in AD 75, in what might turn into the north western limit of the focal point of Cardiff, was worked over a broad settlement that had been built up by the Romans during the 50s AD.
Little is thought about the stronghold and non military personnel settlement in the period between the Roman takeoff from Britain and the Norman Conquest. The settlement likely shrank in size and may even have been deserted. Without Roman principle, Wales was partitioned into little kingdoms; at an opportune time, Meurig ap Tewdrig rose as the local lord in Glywysing (which later moved toward becoming Glamorgan). The region went through his family until the approach of the Normans in the eleventh century.
The city facilitated the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The city was granted the title of European City of Sport twice, because of its role in facilitating significant global games: first in 2009 and again in 2014. The Principality Stadium hosted 11 football matches as a feature of the 2012 Summer Olympics, including the amusements’ opening occasion and the men’s bronze medal match.
A 6-minute walk from Cardiff Castle, this modern, budget hotel in the city centre is 7 minutes on foot from Millennium Stadium and 11 minutes’ walk from Cardiff Central railway station.
Phone: 0871 942 9240
- Royal Hotel
This historic Victorian building is Cardiff’s oldest hotel, and is a 4-minute walk from both the Millennium Stadium and Cardiff Central station.
88 St Mary St, Cardiff CF10 1DW
Phone: 029 2055 0750
- Cardiff Marriott Hotel
This contemporary hotel is 4 minutes’ walk from Cardiff Central train station, 10 minutes on foot from Cardiff Castle and less than a mile from art exhibits at the National Museum Cardiff.
Mill Ln, Cardiff CF10 1EZ
Phone: 029 2039 9944
- Hotel Indigo Cardiff
Surrounded by shops and eateries in the city centre, this modern hotel is 5 minutes on foot from the 11th-century Cardiff Castle, a 6-minute walk from Cardiff Queen Street train station, and 6 km from Cardiff Bay along the Severn Estuary.
Dominions Arcade, Queen St, Cardiff CF10 2AR
Phone: 0871 942 9104
- Clayton Hotel Cardiff
A 3-minute walk from Cardiff Central train station, this modern upscale hotel in the city centre is 6 minutes’ walk from the Principality Stadium and 10 minutes on foot from Cardiff Castle.
St Mary St, Cardiff CF10 1GD
Phone: 029 2066 8866
- Premier Inn Cardiff City Centre
Opposite Cardiff Queen Street train station, this modern budget hotel with a mirrored facade is a 4-minute walk from Cardiff International Arena, and 12 minutes from the Millennium Stadium.
Helmont House, 10 Churchill Way, Cardiff CF10 2DX
Phone: 0871 527 8196
Public, campus-based higher education establishment, with over 28,500 students and courses in Welsh. Cardiff CF10 3AT