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Cardiff City Centre Walk
Our Cardiff City Walk will help you explore and understand this great city. We take you to all the best places to shop, the theatres, the churches, and the most interesting buildings. We also take you to the Castle, and its grounds, which is on the site of the original Roman fort, and the home of Welsh rugby, Cardiff Arms Park. Our tour will give you a much more rounded understanding and knowledge of the city and help you choose what you would like to explore in more detail. Happy sightseeing.
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Each walk delivers a unique and fascinating user experience. Through Tourist Walks’ self guided tour application you can explore the hidden gems created by local experts. For people wanting to explore the neighbourhood and experience the local culture, we provide a unique experience of exploring the city using GPS guided audio tours. The App is FREE, and all the walk summaries are FREE, each walk is individually priced and you can buy all the walks for a city at a discounted price.
Full Audio Visual Commentary
Tourist Walks is an application that can give you the freedom to explore the famous walks at your own discretion. We have created a full audio-visual self-guided experience that gives you the confidence to explore and discover the stories of various cities on your own.
Visit the Best Tourist Sites & Explore Them
Get a list of all the tourist sites you can visit. The Tourist Walks application will guide you to your next destination because every journey starts with a single step.
GPS and Multilingual Audio and Text Guidance
Even if you don’t understand the local language of the city you are visiting, Don’t worry. Audio guided walks have multilingual text assistance that will guide you in your native language.
Start/Stop/Rewind
/Restart Go at Your Own Pace
Tourist Walks’ audios are narrated by professionals who will keep you entertained while you are walking your way to the next destination. We help you discover the city around you in a more impressive way.
Download the Walk App & Use Offline. No Mobile Data Required.
It is always frustrating when you wish to travel somewhere but your mobile phone service is out-of-order. Don’t worry! Tourist Walks comes with an offline version of built-in maps you might need, even without internet access.
Cardiff City Centre Walking Tour
- Tour Name - Cardiff City Centre
- Tour Location - Cardiff
- No. of Attractions - #13
- Tour Starting Point - Cardiff Castle
- Tour Ending Point - Bute Park
Find our Cardiff City Centre Walking Tour highlights below
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle can be regarded as a bit of a fake, or, as a survivor of history of some importance. It stands on the site of the Roman fort, built around 55 AD. It was abandoned in the 4th Century. Seven hundred years later the Normans turned it into a castle. It is said William the Conqueror built the original castle, while returning from a pilgrimage to St David’s in 1081. Over time it has been used as a great house, a prison, and a farm. The famous Welsh rebel, Owain Glyndwr, besieged and sacked it in 1403. Find out more on our tour.
Cardiff Arms Park
Cardiff Arms Park is the spiritual home of Welsh Rugby. A game that is an obsession for the Welsh people. This arena hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1958, and four games of the World Cup in 1991. The first stands appeared in the 1880’s. In the 1970s a new national stadium was built, on the site of the original, and a new stadium was built, just to the South. That Stadium was demolished, and the Millennium Stadium was built in its place in 1997. Find out more on our tour.
Castle Quarter Arcade
“The Castle Quarter Arcade, is a shopping experience unique to Cardiff. It began in 1887, and it is one of the larger Victorian arcades in Cardiff. It is also one of only two arcades to be on two levels. The arcade has a variety of shops, cafes and delicatessens. So, take some time, and have a look around. Find out more on our tour.
Cardiff Central Market
Cardiff Central Market, located in the Market Building, is a Victorian building, which opened in 1891, and it features a glass roof. A Farmers market has existed in this area since the 1700’s. There are two entrances, one from St. Mary Street and the other from Trinity Street. On this site once stood Cardiff jail, which included a gallows. A Welsh coal miner called “Dic Penderyn” was hanged here in 1831, for allegedly killing a soldier with a bayonet. He had taken part in the “Merthyr Rising”, of 1831. However, there was not enough evidence to prove his guilt and over 11 thousand people signed a petition for his release. Find out more on our tour
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The Hayes
The Hayes is one of the three key shopping streets in Cardiff, the other two being St Mary Street, and Queen Street, which we also visit. The Hayes is almost completely pedestrianised. In front of you there is the Hayes Island snack bar, which has a story to tell. It was originally the parcel depot for the Cardiff Corporation Tramways, in 1911. Horse trams were exchanged for electric trams in 1903. The depot kiosk was closed in 1942, and reopened in 1948, as a snack bar, making it the oldest snack bar in Wales. Find out more on our tour.
Museum of Cardiff
This museum, tells the story of Cardiff through the ages. It opened in 2011, and it has a collection of over 3000 objects, related to Cardiff. If you want to get to know this beautiful city in more detail, its history, its people, and its place in the world, then this is the place to start. Find out more on our tour.
St John the Baptist Church
St John the Baptist Church is the only church in Cardiff that existed before medieval times. It was built in 1180, as a chapel for the larger St Marys Church, which was founded by monks from the Benedictine Abbey, in Tewkesbury. The church was destroyed during the rebellion of Owain Glyndwr, in 1404, and rebuilt in the 15th Century. It has been remodelled and extended a number of times since, most notably in the 19th Century, by the Bute family. Find out more on our tour.
In the 19th Century, Cardiff experienced a sudden influx of immigrants, from Ireland, due to the troubles there. As Ireland was mostly Catholic, the number of Catholics in the city increased rapidly, who all wanted to go to church. The original Church, known as St David’s, was built in 1842, on David Street. It was funded by Catholic donations from Wales, and Ireland, and from donations by Lady Catherine Eyre, from Bath. The new Church was built in 1887, and it became a Cathedral in 1920, after it had become the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff. It is one of only three Roman Catholic Cathedrals in the UK. Find out more on our tour
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Queen Street
Queen Street is one of the three main shopping streets in Cardiff, and is worth taking a look around. If you go left you will come to Queens Arcade, which has the usual brands you would expect in a city centre. The street is mostly pedestrianised, which always gives a more relaxed feel to a shopping experience. Find out more on our tour.
New Theatre
The New Theatre opened in 1906, and it is constructed of Bath stone. It has a stage that is 76 feet wide, and 54 feet deep. It’s first performance was Twelfth Night, by Shakespeare. It seats over one thousand people. Famous artists that have performed here include Tom Jones, Laurel and Hardy, Tommy Cooper, and Shirley Bassey. After the pandemic, the Theatre re-opened in 2021. I Find out more on our tour.
National Museum of Cardiff
The National Museum of Cardiff was established in 1905, and received a Royal Charter in 1907. The museum has a wide range of collections that includes zoology, botany, fine art, geology and applied art. The first floor contains the national art of Wales, including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics. It is regarded has having one of the foremost collections of impressionist art, with artists such as Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet, and Turner on show. There is also the Close Discovery Centre, with exhibits selected from 75 million items, including weapons, insects, and fossils. In the Evolution of Wales section, there are collections of natural history, and outer space, along with meteorites, mammoths, moon rocks, dinosaurs, as well as more contemporary animals. Find out more on our tour.
Cardiff City Hall
This civic building was opened in 1906, it is built of Portland stone and it is an example of the Edwardian Baroque style of architecture. The clock tower is 194 feet high, with bells to mark the hour, and quarter hours. Inside there is the “Marble Hall”, with statues of important people from Welsh history. These include Boudica, Saint David, Henry VII, and Bishop Morgan. The Assembly Room is used for conferences, events, and state dinners. It is decorated in gold leaf, with mermaids, and three bronze chandeliers. The Council Chamber is below the main dome of the building. A bronze chandelier hangs from the dome, which is supported by four enormous marble pillars, with bronze Ionic capitals. Find out more on our tour.
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Bute Park
The area that makes up Bute Park, were at one time the grounds of the Castle, on the east side of the river Taff. The park is named after the 3rd Marquess of Bute, whose family owned the castle. This area was once landscaped, in the 1700’s, by the famous landscape artist, Capability Brown. John Crichton Stuart, Fifth Marquess of Bute, donated the park to Cardiff Council in 1947. There is a canal that runs along the eastern edge of the park. Its origins go back to medieval times, when it was a mill stream, constructed to feed the Lord’s Mill, situated below the western walls of Cardiff Castle. Find out more on our walk.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. After the walks have been downloaded, for which you need an internet connection, no mobile data is required to do the walks.
No you can pause and resume at any point within the walk. Whether you need a coffee or a comfort break the walks are entirely flexible.
Yes you will receive both verbal guidance and a GPS enabled map to take you around each of the points of interest on the walks.
No the walks are circular so you will receive multiple options of where to start each walk.
Yes there are providing you buy them as a bundle, not one at a time. You can even buy all the walks in one package at a very generous price.
For each point of interest you will get information both verbally and in text and sometimes video form together with helpful images to get the most from each one.
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