Cardiff Bay
Cardiff Bay is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary, it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely.Photo: GeraintTudur2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wales Millennium Centre and Senedd building.
Wales Millennium Centre
Arts center
Photo: grahamwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wales Millennium Centre is Wales's national arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of 7.5 acres. Phase 1 of the building was opened during the weekend of 26–28 November 2004 and phase 2 opened on 22 January 2009 with an inaugural concert.
Senedd building
Government office
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The Senedd building, in Cardiff, houses the debating chamber and three committee rooms of the Senedd. The 5,308-square-metre Senedd building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 1 March 2006, Saint David's Day, and the total cost was £69.6 million, which included £49.7 million in construction costs.
Tŷ Hywel
Government office
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tŷ Hywel is a building in Cardiff, Wales, used by the Senedd. It is named after the medieval king Hywel Dda, King of Deheubarth in South West Wales. The building was previously known as Crickhowell House, after the former Secretary of State for Wales, Lord Crickhowell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newtown and Grangetown.
Newtown
Neighborhood
Photo: Kizpho11, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtown was a residential area of Cardiff, Wales that was also known as 'Little Ireland' because of its population of Irish families. Its six streets and 200 houses existed from the mid-nineteenth century until they were demolished in 1970.
Grangetown
Suburb
Photo: Mick Lobb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grangetown is a district and community in the south of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is one of the largest districts in the south of the city and is bordered by Riverside, Canton and Butetown.
Castle Quarter
Quarter
Castle Quarter is an independent retail destination area in the north of the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. Castle is also a community of Cardiff. The listed Castle Quarter includes some of Cardiff's Victorian and Edwardian arcades: Castle Arcade, High Street Arcade and Duke Street Arcade, and principal shopping streets: St Mary Street, High Street, Castle Street and Duke Street.
Cardiff Bay
- Type: Suburb
- Description: bay and area created by the Cardiff Barrage in South Cardiff, Wales
- Categories: district, bay, and locality
- Location: Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.46396° or 51° 27′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.16414° or 3° 9′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C3RFR7P+H8OpenStreetMap ID
node 260094978OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q3396731
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cardiff Bay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cardiffko badia”
- Breton: “Bae Kerdiz”
- Cebuano: “Cardiff Bay”
- Chinese: “加的夫灣”
- Chinese: “加迪夫灣”
- Cornish: “Baya Kardydh”
- Dutch: “Cardiff Bay”
- Esperanto: “Kardifa Golfo”
- French: “Cardiff Bay”
- German: “Cardiff Bay”
- Italian: “Baia di Cardiff”
- Japanese: “カーディフ湾”
- Slovenian: “Bae Caerdydd”
- Slovenian: “Cardiff Bay”
- Slovenian: “Cardiffski zaliv”
- Spanish: “Bahia de cardiff”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Cardiff”
- Spanish: “Cardiff Bay”
- Swedish: “Cardiff Bay”
- Uzbek: “cardiff bay”
- Welsh: “Bae Caerdydd”
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