Things to do in Swansea

The Grand Theatre in the city centre is a Victorian theatre that celebrated its centennial in 1997 and has a capacity of just over a thousand people. Adelina Patti, the famed opera singer, launched it, and it was renovated from 1983 to 1987.

The yearly programme includes everything from pantomime and theatre to opera and ballet. Fluellen Theatrical Group is a Swansea-based professional theatre company that performs at the Grand Theatre and the Dylan Thomas Centre.

The National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most significant of numerous yearly eisteddfodau, largely hosted in Wales. Its eight-day competitions and performances are regarded as Europe’s greatest music and poetry festival. Competitors frequently number 6,000 or more, and overall attendance typically approaches 150,000 visitors.

Swansea Castle, the Tabernacle Chapel, Morriston, and the Swansea Guildhall are all Grade One listed structures in the city. Swansea Castle was an outstanding structure situated strategically over the river Tawe. The apparent ruins date from the late 13th and early 14th centuries. The castle is now surrounded by newer structures.

Morriston’s Tabernacle Chapel was constructed in 1872 by Swansea’s John Humphreys. The usage of semi-circular arches is a distinctive characteristic. The structure has been dubbed the “Nonconformist Cathedral of Wales,” and it is classed as Grade I because it is “the most ambitious magnificent chapel in Wales, its interior and furnishings remaining largely unchanged.”