Cardiff is the capital of Wales. It is the city of arcades, castles and culture. There are seven historic Victorian and Edwardian arcades which now serve as the important shopping centers.
1. Cardiff is United Kingdom's 11th largest city.
2. Cardiff was announced the first Fairtrade capital of the world in 2004. It means that the city's businesses had committed to providing a better deal to the Third World farmers.
3. Roald Dahl—the famous British author—was born and brought up in Cardiff. He was a prankster and once put a dead mouse into a jar of sweets at a local sweet shop as the owner was rude to him.
4. Cardiff is home to the oldest record store in the world—Spillers Records. The record store opened in 1894 and sold wax cylinders for the phonograph.
5. Apparently, the first ever hansom cab was used in cardiff—in the year 1859.
6. The city has a number of underground tunnels, whose purpose is still not known. These tunnels run through important areas of Cardiff and are its best kept secret.
7. The first British news film was shot in Cardiff in the year 1896.
8. Cardiff is one of the flattest cities of Britain.
9. Only 10% of Cardiff's population can speak Welsh.
10. Cardiff's Westgate street, located at the city centre, once used to be a river. River Taff once flowed through the place.