The places that make Cardiff: Cardiff Castle, Wales Millennium Centre, The Pierhead Building and more, with what is on there next.
A Roman fort turned Norman castle, with a stone keep and walls that still dominate the skyline. In the 19th century William Burges remodelled it for the 3rd Marquess of Bute and added the 40-metre clock tower. Tunnels in the walls served as air-raid shelters in the Second World War.
The arts centre on Cardiff Bay, opened in 2004 and clad in recycled Welsh slate. Its bilingual inscription, "In These Stones Horizons Sing", was written by Gwyneth Lewis, a former National Poet of Wales. It stages musicals, opera and new Welsh theatre.
The red-brick Gothic building of 1897 on the Bay, designed by William Frame as the headquarters of the Cardiff Railway Company. Its clock is known as the Welsh Big Ben. It is now part of the Senedd estate, with exhibits on the history of Wales and the Bay.
The national stadium of Wales, opened on 26 June 1999 as the Millennium Stadium and renamed in 2016. It has a fully retractable roof, is the home of the Wales rugby team and has also staged the 2017 Champions League final.
Free admission to art and natural history in Cathays Park, with the Evolution of Wales galleries. The exhibition Ffasiwn, on who shapes Welsh visual culture, is on until 4 April 2027. Booking a free ticket is recommended.
Wales's free museum of history, in the west of the city around St Fagans Castle, an Elizabethan manor house. It looks at history through people's everyday lives. Some areas are being improved, so check the museum's visit page.
A Victorian indoor market that opened in May 1891, with stalls on the ground floor and traders on a balcony level above. It stands on St Mary Street, and markets have traded on the site in one form or another since the 1700s.
A large park along the River Taff, once the castle's grounds, with an arboretum of over 3,000 catalogued trees. It was laid out from 1873 and given to the city in 1947. In winter it hosts the Christmas at Bute Park light trail.
