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Extract from the Cardiff Travel Guides:
Official capital of Wales since only 1955 (hence the annoyingly ubiquitous "Europe's Youngest Capital" slogan), the buoyant city of
CARDIFF
(Caerdydd) has swiftly grown into its new status. A number of progressive developments, not least the new, sixty-member Welsh National Assembly, are giving the city the feel of an international capital, if not always a very Welsh one: compared with Swansea, Cardiff is very anglicized - you'll rarely hear Welsh on the city's streets.
The second Marquis of Bute built Cardiff's first dock in 1839, opening others in swift succession. The Butes, who owned massive swathes of the r...
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