Welsh sides that play in English leagues are eligible, although since the creation of the League of Wales there are only six clubs remaining: Cardiff City ( the only non-English team to win the tournament, in 1927 ), Swansea City, Wrexham, Merthyr Town, Newport County and Colwyn Bay.

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

On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.

In 1992, the Cardiff Bay Public Art Strategy selected Pierre Vivant to create artwork for a roundabout in Splott, a district of Cardiff.

The Welsh National Opera is based at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, while the National Youth Orchestra of Wales was the first of its type in the world.

St. David's Day celebrations, Cardiff Bay 2008

This rule excluded the six Welsh clubs who played in the English football league system: Swansea City, Cardiff City, Newport County, Wrexham, Colwyn Bay and Merthyr Tydfil / Town.

Tiger Bay () was the local name for an area of Cardiff which covered Butetown and Cardiff Docks.

It was re-branded as Cardiff Bay following the building of the Cardiff Barrage which dams the tidal rivers Ely and Taff to create a body of water.

The 1959 film Tiger Bay included many scenes shot in the docks area and at Newport Transporter Bridge, twelve miles from Cardiff.

In 1999, new life was injected into the area by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, which bulldozed many of the now derelict and decrepit buildings and streets to create new living spaces.

This redevelopment was completed by the building of the Cardiff Bay Barrage, one of the most controversial building projects of the day but also one of the most successful, that impounds the Rivers Taff and the Ely to create a massive fresh-water lake.

This resulted in the equally controversial renaming area to Cardiff Bay.

* Cardiff Bay

Cardiff Bay Barrage

However the tidal nature of Cardiff Bay, exposing-as it did-extensive mudflats save for two hours either side of high water-was seen as aesthetically unappealing.

Watson proposed building a barrage stretching across the mouth of Cardiff Bay from Cardiff Docks to Penarth which would impound freshwater from the rivers Ely and Taff to create a large freshwater lake-thus providing permanent high-water.

During the development of Cardiff Bay and of the Cardiff Bay Barrage there was constant tension between the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation and Cardiff City Council ( later Cardiff County Council ).

Low-key inauguration ceremony of Cardiff Bay Barrage November 1999In place of an official Royal inauguration of this massive civil engineering scheme, the largest of its kind in Europe, a modest ceremony was arranged by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation at which a former Lord Mayor of Cardiff, Councillor Ricky Ormonde ( who had served as Lord Mayor in 1994 ) officiated along with Alun Michael Labour and Co-operative MP for Cardiff South and Penarth who had always supported the scheme.

Construction started in 1994, following the successful passage of the Cardiff Bay Barrage Act of 1993 through the UK Parliament.

The Cardiff Bay Barrage Control Centre

Sluices at the Cardiff Bay Barrage

The Cardiff Bay Barrage has won awards as a feat of engineering from the British Construction Industry and achieved the Institution of Civil Engineers Brunel Medal.

Image: Three Bascule Bridges, Cardiff Bay Barrage. jpg

Image: Cardiff Bay Barrage lock. jpg

The Wetlands reserve opened in March 2000 as a mitigation for the loss of mudflats caused by the building of the Cardiff Bay Barrage.

This historic short cut route was ' almost ' replicated and replaced in June 2008 with the opening of a pedestrian and cycle route across the new Cardiff Bay Barrage.

The Cardiff Bay Barrage between Penarth Head and Grangetown was completed in 1999 and came into operation shortly afterwards.

The Cardiff Waterbus operates a passenger water taxi service daily between 10. 30 am and 5. 00 pm, sailing from the Penarth end of the Bay Barrage and the Mermaid Quay on Cardiff's waterfront with seven crossings at hourly intervals.

The town lies alongside the dual carriageway north-south A470, between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil.

It ’ s no business at all of an outgoing MP to interfere in the selection of a candidate to succeed him in such a way .” Michael responded saying: “ Nobody who has the interests of the Labour Party or the wider electorate of Cardiff South & Penarth could possibly come up with this set of lies and half truths.

Penarth lies 5. 2 miles ( 8. 4 km ) south west of Cardiff by road and has a road infrastructure that has been much improved in recent years, together with a traditional rail link.

The town centre of Llantwit Major lies about southeast of the centre of Bridgend, west of the centre of Barry, and about miles south-west of the centre of the Welsh capital of Cardiff which lies further to the east beyond Barry.

The town centre of Llantwit Major lies about from the centre of Bridgend, 10 miles from the centre of Barry and about from the centre of Cardiff which lies further to the east.

The electoral ward of Gabalfa lies within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff North.

Old St Mellons has been deemed an area of special architectural or historical interest and lies in a conservation area which Cardiff County Council first adopted in 1977.

Atlantic Wharf lies in the Butetown electoral division of Cardiff and the Cardiff South and Penarth constituency for the UK Parliament / Welsh Government.

Approximately 3 miles from Bridgend and about 20 miles west of Cardiff the village lies in the Vale of Glamorgan.

It lies on the B4275 Cardiff Road-the old main route to Cardiff before the A4059 road was built-between Aberdare and Mountain Ash.

Ninian Park railway station serves the Leckwith and South Canton areas of Cardiff, which lies just outside Cardiff city centre.

Services to other parts of the country are provided by CrossCountry via Birmingham New Street, to Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton,,, Stansted, as well as direct services to other cities across England and Scotland.

Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, successfully transmitted radio signals across the Bristol Channel in the spring of 1897, from Penarth ( near Cardiff ) to Brean Down ( just south west of Weston, on the other side of the River Axe ).

Caldicot has easy access by motorway and rail to Cardiff, and across the Second Severn Crossing, old Severn Bridge and railway tunnel to Bristol.

The promised pedestrian and cyclist short cut to Cardiff across the barrage finally opened to the public on Friday 27 June 2008, after numerous postponements.

They form part of a line of defences, known as Palmerston Forts, built across the channel to protect the approaches to Bristol and Cardiff.

On 20 March 2009 Cardiff Council published a legal statutory notice announcing their intention to close Llanrumney High School by 2012 as part of Cardiff County Council's plans to reduce surplus places in schools across the city.

The volunteer ROC observers spotted many German Luftwaffe raids approaching across the channel and activated the air raid warnings in the Cardiff area.

BBC Cymru Wales employs a full-time orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who give concerts in Cardiff, Swansea and across Wales.

In Cardiff, the natural course of the river was changed during the 19th century ; from Cardiff Castle it now follows an artificial riverbed west of where it previously flowed, now following a path through Bute Park and next to the Cardiff Arms Park and the former National Stadium, now the Millennium Stadium, and into Cardiff Bay, which has now become an artificial lake due to the construction of a barrage across the mouth of this river and the River Ely It then flows out into the Severn estuary.

Brean Down Fort forms part of a line of defences, known as Palmerston Forts, built across the channel to protect the approaches to Bristol and Cardiff.

Cardiff Metropolitan University's research is organised through a number of research centres, offering applied research and consultancy to business and industry, and to local and national government across the UK and abroad.

It was the most southerly of a chain of defences across the Bristol Channel, protecting the access to Bristol and Cardiff.

The pedestrian and cyclist short cut to Cardiff across the barrage finally opened to the public on Friday 27 June 2008.

The station broadcasts from studios at Morganstown in Cardiff on various FM frequencies, DAB via the MXR Severn Estuary multiplex and across the UK on digital satellite TV ( Sky Digital channel 0146 ).

He claimed for a number of years that he had stumbled across Matthews busking in Cardiff and offered her a guitar string she was missing, which led to them playing together, but actually they were in a long term relationship busking and co-habiting when they formed the band.

Around the 16th century, a bridge was built across the River Ceiriog at Pontfaen as part of the Chester to Cardiff highway.