Prepare For The Uks Biggest Outdoor Weekend The Summer Cardiff Festival!

Cardiff, the capital of Wales was once a city with a reputation for rough industrialism

, thanks to the trade stemming from its ports, but has now grown into a vibrant and modern city peppered with historical attractions and a great area of beautiful parkland. The city, which is home to the renowned Cardiff University and a strong sporting and cosmopolitan presence, is now a major tourist hub and regional shopping centre. The citys multi-faceted appeal also includes an exotic variety of bars and clubs and an established music scene which has a history of spring-boarding emerging unknowns to the star stratosphere. All this is best showcased in the spring and summer months when visitors throng to the city, whose main attractions are outdoor-oriented. Among the numerous festivals and sporting activities the city hosts during its calendar year, the summer Cardiff Festival is the most anticipated.

The Cardiff Festival is the largest summer outdoor festival in the UK, incorporating a series of entertainment and music events for all tastes and demographics. The Admiral Cardiff Big Weekend, the Cardiff Harbour Festival and the Cardiff International Food and Drink Festival are flagship events. International and local artistes, emerging and established stars all gather to stage a variety of live theatre and music extravaganzas for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who vie to secure places in the audience. Childrens funfairs in the sprawling grounds of Bute Park, open air theatre in the Cardiff Castle, live entertainment at Millennium Stadium, the Red Dragon centre family festival and spectacular fireworks over the Harbour are highlights of the summer-long series of soirees which winds up in September with the Wales LGBT Mardi Gras, one of the UKs biggest and most colorful gay and lesbian events. Many of these events are free for both locals and visitors.

For the summer visitor looking for a quality hotel in Cardiff in a centralized location, Copthorne Hotel Cardiff Caerdydd is ideal. This fully-serviced Cardiff hotel for both business and leisure travelers is located only 4 miles from the city center and is in close proximity to the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Bay and Cardiff International Arena, making it the best vantage point to access all the major highlights of the Cardiff Festival.

by: Pushpitha Wijesinghe

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