Cardiff

:This article is about the Welsh capital. For the place in United States, see Cardiff, California.

Culture, media, sport and tourism

:See also List of cultural venues in Cardiff

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The city has a professional football team, Cardiff City F.C., nicknamed "The Bluebirds". There is also the world-famous Cardiff RFC and regional Cardiff Blues rugby union teams, and the Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey team. The city also features an international sporting venue, the Millennium Stadium. Cardiff hosted the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

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Football - Cardiff City F.C. - Cardiff RFC - Cardiff Blues - Rugby union - Ice Hockey - Millennium Stadium - 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

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Cardiff is home to Cardiff Castle, the National Assembly for Wales, St. David's Hall, the National Museum and Gallery, and Cathays Park (including municipal buildings modelled on those in New Delhi), and the Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral. The Welsh National Opera moved into the Wales Millennium Centre in November 2004.

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Cardiff Castle - National Assembly for Wales - National Museum and Gallery - Cathays Park - New Delhi - Welsh National Opera - Wales Millennium Centre

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Cardiff's centre is a particularly green one with Bute Park, formally the castle grounds, extending northwards from the top of the Cardiff's main shopping street (Queen Street); when combined with the adjacent Llandaff Fields to the northwest it produces a massive open space skirting the river Taff. Unfortunately Cardiff's central green spaces are now under threat of development. Other popular parks include Roath Park in the north, donated to the city by the 3rd Marquess of Bute in 1887 and which includes a very popular boating lake; Victoria Park, Cardiff's first official park; and Thompson's Park, formerly home to an aviary removed in the 1970s.

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Taff - 3rd Marquess of Bute - 1887 - Aviary

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The city has its own university, Cardiff University, as well as two University of Wales colleges, the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Cardiff has also been repeatedly mentioned in the BBC TV show Doctor Who, where it was often filmed. The mentions are a bit tongue-in-cheek, of the "Where are we? It's not Cardiff again is it?" variety.

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Cardiff University - University of Wales - University of Wales Institute, Cardiff - Doctor Who

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Cardiff hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1883, 1899, 1938, 1960 and 1978.

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National Eisteddfod - 1883 - 1899 - 1938 - 1960 - 1978

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Cardiff Philatelic Society is the oldest Philatelic Society in Wales. It was formed in 1899.

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The South Wales hardcore scene, one of the UK's largest such music scenes, is largely centred in Cardiff.

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South Wales hardcore scene - Music - Scenes

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