Cardiff
Cardiff City and chief town of Wales,
administrative center of the county of
South Glamorgan, situated in southern Wales, to the mouths of the rivers Taff and Ely,
on the channel of Bristol.
It is a road and
railway knot and an I bring active, especially in the
coal export, mineral worked and cement. It possesses iron industries,
metallurgical, petrochemistry, mechanics, alimentary, chemical, textile and of
the paper. You/they can admire you the castle
of Cardiff (XII century), the
cathedral of Llandaff and the church
of St. Giovanni Battista
(XV century). The city is center of the university of Wales
(1988), of institutes of specialization in medicine, in sciences and technology
and of the national Museum
of Wales.
In the XI
century the inhabited area of Cardiff
was conquered by the Norman ones; subsequently it became ownership of the
feudal gentlemen. The opening of the channel of Glamorganshire (1794) the
surrenders an important commercial result for the mineral extracts in southern Wales.
After halves last century became the greatest I bring of embarkation of the
coal of the world. During the second world war the
city was seriously damaged by the deutsche bombardments. population:
324.400 (1999).
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Evans/Tony Stone Images
Castle of Cardiff, Wales
To Cardiff, chief town of Wales, this castle
of the XII rises century. During the eight hundred changes were brought to the
inside structure, you inspire to a curious taste esotizzante: famous it is the
Arabic room, conceived as the room of a harem, from the rich decoration in
lapis lazzuli.
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Bay of Cardiff
In the bay of Cardiff, that coincides with the
estuary of the river Severn, the gradient among tall and low tide it is very
marked and it reaches to overcome the 14 meters.
