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Cardiff Bay Wales, Cardiff

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Eat, shop, and relax at Cardiff Bay Wales, one of Europe’s largest waterfront developments. Built around a freshwater lake, this area combines entertainment, shopping, and fine dining to attract visitors from around the world. Walk along the waterfront to see numerous notable buildings, including the Pierhead (built in 1897), Norwegian Church, Senedd, and the Wales Millennium Center, home to the Welsh National Opera. Iconic Mermaid Quay comprises a mix of restaurants, bars, cafes, shops, and tourist facilities. Stop by the visitor center to pick up souvenirs, buy tickets to various attractions, and grab free maps of the city and the surrounding region. It couldn't be easier to arrange your visit to Cardiff Bay Wales and many more Cardiff attractions: make an itinerary online using Inspirock's Cardiff travel route planner .

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• By PJSCardiff

  Cardiff Bay represents the lack of ambition in Wales to create a really memorable area on the waterside. Cheap restaurants and tacky entertainment plus scruffy areas along the front does not show the ...  more »

• By Purplejourneys

  Lovely walks around the bay..great cafes and restaurants..arty shops to potter in..buzzing place to be.quirky statues too  more »

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• By Amy Mander

  Cardiff Bay overall is a nice place to walk around especially on a Sunday as it is nice and quiet. There are a few restaurants and shops located around the bay as well as some tourist attractions close by, yet over the years I feel personally, the bay has lost its lustre as more apartment blocks are being built around it which sometimes takes away from the bay.

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• By Gaming Arcade

  Nice place to visit not very clean but nice the people there are very kind and helpful if you don't know where you are going there are a ton of shops around no matter where you are and pubs mostly older people around all of the people in the shops are very kind and helpful and the shops are clean and very tidy and cheap. I do think that they could do with some people cleaning up outside and people helping around and helping about.

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