On 8 May 2012, it was announced that Cardiff Blues would be returning to the Arms Park on a permanent basis.

The Cardiff Arms Park site was originally called the Great Park, a swampy meadow behind the Cardiff Arms Hotel.

The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel.

From 1803, the Cardiff Arms Hotel and the Park had become the property of the Bute family.

The Arms Park soon became a popular place for sporting events, and by 1848, Cardiff Cricket Club was using the site for its cricket matches.

However by 1878, Cardiff Arms Hotel had been demolished.

At that time Cardiff Arms Park had a cricket ground to the north and a rugby union ground to the south.

In 1922 John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, had sold the entire site and it was bought by the Cardiff Arms Park Company Limited for GB £ 30, 000, it was then leased to the Cardiff Athletic Club ( cricket and rugby sections ) for 99 years at a cost of £ 200 per annum.

< center > The 1934 new North Stand, rugby ground, Cardiff Arms Park </ center >

By 7 October 1966, the first floodlit game was held at Cardiff Arms Park, a game in which Cardiff RFC beat the Barbarians by 12 points to 8.

This would become the fourth redevelopment of the Cardiff Arms Park site.

Although the Millennium Stadium is on roughly two thirds of the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park site, it is currently no longer using the Arms Park name.

The official website confuses the issue as well, one part states that " The Millennium Stadium is located on Westgate Street in Cardiff ; next to the Cardiff Arms Park ".

whereas another section specifically refers to the stadium as " The Millennium Stadium, on the Cardiff Arms Park "

Venues used since 1990 include Manchester City's now demolished Maine Road stadium, Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium, Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, Arsenal's former home, Highbury ( since redeveloped as housing ), London's Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and Aston Villa's Villa Park in Birmingham.

Before August 2004, the university was officially known as University of Wales, Cardiff (), although it used the name Cardiff University publicly.

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan (), Wales, 5. 2 miles ( 8. 4 km ) south west from the city centre of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff and lying on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

St Fagans National History Museum (), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture and architecture of the Welsh people.

Sophia Gardens (), currently known as SWALEC Stadium () under a naming rights deal, is a cricket stadium on the west bank of the River Taff in Cardiff, 1. 6 kilometres ( one mile ) north of Cardiff Arms Park.

The site also has a bowling green to the north of the rugby ground, which is used by Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club, which is the bowls section of the Cardiff Athletic Club.

They also could not agree a solution with the Cardiff Athletic Club, so they purchased about of land at Island Farm in Bridgend, which was previously used as a prisoner-of-war camp.

In 1876, the Cardiff RFC was formed and soon after they also used the park.

Later, the National Stadium was also home to the WRU Challenge Cup from 1972 until the match held at the Stadium on 26 April 1997, at a much reduced capacity, between Cardiff RFC and Swansea RFC.

Until the summer of 2009, he was also the Chairman of the British Council and the President of Cardiff University.

The Cardiff dialect and accent is also quite distinctive from that of the South Wales Valleys, primarily:

An exclusive three-coloured vinyl was also sold at only one shop – Spillers Records in Cardiff.

Llandaff is also home of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Llandaff campus.

The charity also promotes horticulture through a series of world renowned flowers shows such as the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, RHS Tatton Park Flower Show and RHS Cardiff Flower Show.

The current Earls of Pembroke also carry the subsidiary titles: Baron Herbert of Cardiff, of Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan ( 1551 ), Baron Herbert of Shurland, of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey in the County of Kent ( 1605 ), and Baron Herbert of Lea, of Lea in the County of Wilts ( 1861 ).

While the second half of the twentieth century saw the serious decline of Welsh heavy industry, along with serious unemployment and the hardship and suffering that came with it, it also saw significant cultural gains with regard to a separate Welsh identity within the British Isles, starting with the appointing of a Secretary of State for Wales in 1964, and the establishment of a Welsh Office in Cardiff the following year.

As well as defeating these direct attacks Coke also travelled to Cardiff to answer a challenge by Francis Dacre, brother-in-law to Philip Howard – he proved that Dacre's evidence was false and had the case dismissed.

* Thornhill is also served by bus services operated by Cardiff Bus.

* Mark Delaney, a footballer who played for Cardiff City, Aston Villa, and Wales, was also born in Haverfordwest.

On 23 April 2007, First Choice confirmed it is to close its bases at London Luton Airport and Cardiff from 1 November 2007 however due to the merger with Thomsonfly who also operate from these bases, the combined airline will still operate from these bases.

However, radio programmes are also made in the BBC's network production units located in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester.

South Wales had several notable potteries in the late 18th and 19th centuries, an early exponent being the Cambrian Pottery ( 1764 – 1870, also known as " Swansea pottery ") and including Nantgarw Pottery near Cardiff, which was in operation from 1813 to 1822 making fine porcelain, and then utilitarian pottery until 1920.

Following the acquisition of WWN by TWW, the Western Avenue base was closed, with all operations moved to TWW's Pontcanna base, also in Cardiff.

This company also designed the City Hall building in Cathays Park, Cardiff, with which it shares many similarities.

Well known UK universities providing dental courses are the Universities of Glasgow, Cardiff, Queen's Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Dundee, Manchester, Sheffield and King's College London.

By 1912 the Cardiff Football Ground, as it was then known, had a new south stand and temporary stands on the north, east and west ends of the ground.

Cardiff Arms Park is best known as a rugby union stadium, however Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club ( CABC ) was established in 1923, and ever since then, the club has used the Arms Park as its bowling club.

The two met while studying at University College, Cardiff, where they were known as " the power and the glory " ( Glenys the power ), and they married on 25 March 1967.

* Cardiff Bay Visitor Centre (' The Tube '), known as The Tube because of its distinctive shape

Plans for the " missing " Junction 31, also known as the Thornhill interchange, which was originally granted planning permission in September 1991 ( but subsequently expired ) have been rekindled after proposals for a new business park on a site north of the M4 were submitted to Cardiff Council.

Shortly after standing down from the Welsh Assembly he suffered a heart attack while visiting the " A Touch of Class " ( now known as Twice as Nice ) massage parlour in Cardiff and was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.

* Cardiff has eight lines of urban and suburban services radiating from the city, known as the Valley Lines.

The Cardiff Bay Arts Trust ( CBAT ), now known as Safle, commissioned Swiss artist Felice Varini to produce piece of public art for the CHA, entitled 3 Ellipses for 3 Locks.

The merged institution, known as Cardiff University, ceased to be a constituent institution and became a new category of ' Affiliated / Linked Institutions '.

At the prime of his career he painted the known series that included: the Saint-Sévrin series ( 1909 – 10 ); the City series ( 1909 – 11 ); the Eiffel Tower series ( 1909 – 12 ); the City of Paris series ( 1911 – 12 ); the Window series ( 1912 – 14 ); the Cardiff Team series ( 1913 ); the Circular Forms series ( 1913 ); and The First Disk ( 1913 ).

A boat weighing machine, one of only four known to have existed on British canals, which was originally installed at Tongwynlais, and later moved to North Road, Cardiff, was presented to the British Transport Commission in 1955, and re-erected at the Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum in 1964.

Born in Neath, she was educated at the Mynyddbach Comprehensive School for Girls ( since September 2001 known as Daniel James Community School after merging with the Penlan Boys School ) on Heol Ddu, Treboeth, Swansea, and studied at University College, Cardiff where she was awarded a BSc degree in mechanical engineering, and at Aston University, where she obtained a MBA.

The media studies degree at the Polytechnic of Central London had been launched by David Cardiff in 1969, when the institution was still known by its former title of Regent Street Polytechnic, and was the first such degree course ever to have been established in the United Kingdom.

* Capital South Wales, a radio station serving Cardiff, Wales formerly known as 103. 2 & 97. 4 Red Dragon

The stadium was built in 1999 on the site of the old National Stadium, known as Cardiff Arms Park, as the Welsh Rugby Union ( WRU ) had been chosen to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup.

It is much closer to modern-day Britain than Judge Dredd's Brit-Cit by the same writers, but contains areas of nuclear devastation such as the Greater London Crater and Birmingham Gap ; areas known to survive include Salisbury ( now a major area and political centre ), Glasgow, Newcastle, Dover, Christchurch & Bournemouth ( now a combined conurbation ), Cardiff, Isles of Scilly, and Winchester.