Fortress · Castle, Cardiff, Wales
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle is a castle in the centre of Cardiff whose site runs from a Roman fort through a Norman keep to a Victorian Gothic revival residence; it is owned by the city.
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United Kingdom•City
Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital city of Wales; its official tourism body, Visit Cardiff, is part of Cardiff Council. XTOUR maps Cardiff Castle, National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National Museum of History, Llandaff Cathedral and Castell Coch within the City and County of Cardiff, and treats Caerphilly Castle, in Caerphilly County Borough, as a place reached from Cardiff.
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United Kingdom
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City
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Museum · Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales
National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff is Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales's museum of art, geology and natural history in Cathays Park, Cardiff's civic centre.
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Church · Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
Llandaff Cathedral
Llandaff Cathedral is the cathedral of the Diocese of Llandaff in the Church in Wales, at Llandaff in Cardiff.
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Museum · St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
St Fagans National Museum of History
St Fagans National Museum of History is Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales's open-air museum of re-erected historic Welsh buildings, in the grounds of St Fagans Castle in the west of Cardiff.
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Historic site · Tongwynlais, Cardiff, Wales
Castell Coch
Castell Coch is a High Victorian castle by the architect William Burges, built over the remains of a 13th-century castle in the beech woods of Fforest Fawr at Tongwynlais, Cardiff, and in the care of Cadw.
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Fortress · Caerphilly, Wales
Caerphilly Castle
Caerphilly Castle is a 13th-century castle with extensive water defences in the town of Caerphilly, in the care of Cadw.
11 km in a straight line
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Guides to Cardiff
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Travel Guide01
England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom: what each name covers
The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland, Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, and England is one of the UK's four countries. This article sets out those definitions from UK legislation and government pages, shows where the difference turns up on food labels, number plates, heritage bodies and maps, and says how XTOUR files its UK destinations.
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Travel Guide02
United Kingdom travel guide: where to base yourself, and what each base is for
London, in England, and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, come first; Bath, York, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury are smaller English bases, each built around a World Heritage site, a cathedral or a university; Cardiff, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast and Liverpool cover Wales, the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north-west of England. This guide says what each base is for, which well-known sights are reached from a base rather than in it, and what XTOUR does not state.
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Destination information last verified: October 11, 2026
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