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Things to do in Cardiff
Wondering what to do in Cardiff? This guide lists the area's attractions — zoos, museums, theme parks and more — with distances, so you can plan every day of your trip.
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Fri 13 Nov · 11:00
Shiiine On Weekender - Minehead
Butlins Minehead Resort, Minehead · 22.6 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 10:00
Cardiff Victorian Christmas Market
Cardiff City Centre, Cardiff · 0.0 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 17:30
Basement Jazz with the Jack Mac Quartet
Jacobs Basement, Cardiff · 0.4 mi
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Fri 13 Nov · 18:00
Black History Wales Music Festival x Afrowales
Y Plas, Cardiff · 0.5 mi
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Aquariums
25.1 mi from Cardiff
Bristol Aquarium
Bristol Aquarium sits in the heart of the city on the historic Harbourside, with more than 40 naturally-themed displays of tropical sharks, rays, seahorses, turtles and other aquat...
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Museums & Galleries
0 mi from Cardiff
Firing Line: Cardiff Castle Museum of the Welsh Soldier
Firing Line is an accredited museum inside Cardiff Castle telling the story of the Welsh soldier across 300 years, from Waterloo and Rorke's Drift through to Iraq and Afghanistan....
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0 mi from Cardiff
Wartime Shelters
Hidden within the walls of Cardiff Castle are tunnels that served as air-raid shelters during the Second World War. More than 1800 people could once shelter here, reached via speci...
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0.3 mi from Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff
National Museum Cardiff sits in the heart of Cardiff's elegant civic centre, offering world-class art and natural history, with admission free. It houses Wales's national art, geol...
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1.4 mi from Cardiff
Techniquest
Techniquest is a science discovery centre located in Cardiff Bay, Wales. It gives visitors a hands-on approach to science and includes a science theatre, a planetarium, and an exhi... — Wikipedia
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3.9 mi from Cardiff
Cider Making Display
The Cider-Making Display sits within one of the Museum's earliest galleries, a listed building originally created in the 1960s to show agricultural vehicles and now home to a colle...
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4 mi from Cardiff
Stryd Lydan Barn
Stryd Lydan Barn is a historic cruck and timber-framed barn, formed by linking two separate structures, the earliest dating from about 1550. Here you can see wattled walls made fro...
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4 mi from Cardiff
Esgair Moel Woollen Mill
Esgair Moel Woollen Mill is a working woollen mill originally built in Powys in 1760 and moved to St Fagans Museum in 1949. Inside, the Museum weaver still makes blankets, shawls a...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Kennixton
Kennixton is a historic Gower farmhouse, first built in 1610 and later extended, now rebuilt at St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. You'll see the farmhouse furnished as it might have loo...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Penrhiw Chapel
Penrhiw Chapel is a Grade 2 listed Unitarian chapel, originally built as a barn in Drefach-Felindre, Carmarthenshire, and moved to St Fagans in 1956. Inside, you'll find a plain, u...
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4.1 mi from Cardiff
Abernodwydd Farmhouse
Abernodwydd Farmhouse is a timber-framed, thatched-roof building originally raised in 1678 near Llangadfan, Powys, and later moved to St Fagans. Inside, you can explore the smoke-b...
4.2 mi from Cardiff
Derwen Bakehouse
Derwen Bakehouse is a historic building at St Fagans, originally one of three small commercial bakeries built in Aberystwyth around 1900. Here you can see its two distinct parts: a...
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4.2 mi from Cardiff
Tollhouse
The Tollhouse at St Fagans, Cardiff, was "originally built in Penparcau, Aberystwyth, in 1771", where it "covered all traffic travelling south of Aberystwyth". It was "moved to St...
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Theme Parks
7.4 mi from Cardiff
Barry Island Pleasure Park
Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles (16 km) south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales... — Wikipedia
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15.4 mi from Cardiff
Brean Theme Park
Brean Theme Park is a free-admission theme park just off the M5 in Brean, Somerset, offering a day of rides and attractions for all ages. You'll find roller coasters, dodgems, a tr...
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19.2 mi from Cardiff
Bridgend Minature Railway
Bridgend Miniature Railway is a small-scale theme park attraction set in over four acres of woodland adjacent to the Parc Slip nature reserve in Llangynwyd Lower, Bridgend, Somerse...
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Water Parks
25 mi from Cardiff
The Wave
The Wave is an inland surfing destination near Bath, Somerset, built around a lake that produces consistent, guaranteed waves using Wavegarden Cove technology, with heights ranging...
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26.9 mi from Cardiff
Spring Valley Watersports centre
Spring Valley Watersports centre is a lakeside activity and camping site in Glynneath, Neath Port Talbot, within BRITSTAYS:place. On the water you can try paddleboarding, kayaking,...
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28.6 mi from Cardiff
Aquasplash Play Pool
Aquasplash Play Pool is a seasonal outdoor water play attraction at Aberavon, forming part of the wider Aberavon Leisure & Fitness Centre run by Celtic Leisure. It operates from la...
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Zoos & Wildlife
7.2 mi from Cardiff
Welsh Hawking Centre
The Welsh Hawking Centre and Children's Animal Park is a hawking centre on Weycock Road on the northwestern outskirts of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in southern Wales. It contains th... — Wikipedia
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17.5 mi from Cardiff
North Somerset Bird of Prey Centre
The North Somerset Bird of Prey Centre in Congresbury is a small sanctuary caring for over 60 resident birds of prey, alongside reptiles, ferrets, meerkats, foxes, a binturong, sku...
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18.9 mi from Cardiff
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm
Noah's Ark Zoo Farm is a family-friendly zoo near Bristol, home to over 100 species of animal and the largest elephant facility in the UK. Alongside the animal enclosures, you'll f...
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23.4 mi from Cardiff
Tropiquaria
Tropiquaria is a small zoo and animal sanctuary in Minehead, Somerset, built in and around a repurposed 1933 BBC Radio Transmitting Station. The Grade II listed building houses a R...
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24.5 mi from Cardiff
Bristol Zoo Project
Bristol Zoo Project, formerly known as the Wild Place Project, is a wildlife conservation park in South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. It is run by Bristol Zoological Society (BZ... — Wikipedia
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Where to stay near Cardiff
Places to stay within easy reach of these days out.
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Itineraries
- A weekend in Wales: an accessible itinerary · 2 days
- A weekend in Wales with the kids · 2 days
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best things to do in Cardiff?
The list below shows attractions nearby with distances from Cardiff.
What can we do in Cardiff when it rains?
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