Whenever you're picking up your lunch or sinking a pint in Cardiff's city centre, how often do you look up at the building you are standing in? It's likely that you're planted in one of the city's many historic listed buildings.
Cardiff has a long and fascinating history and the city centre in particular is full of beautiful buildings with interesting backstories. While we still enter many of these buildings every day, they have now been given a new lease of life, with vastly different uses from when they were first built. St Mary Street in particular, home to pubs, clubs, restaurants, and more, is lined with historic listed biuldings.
As Cardiff rose to prominence as one of the world's most important port cities during the nineteenth century, buildings shot up across the city to allow people to eat, drink, socialise, and enjoy themselves. While these theatres and music halls may be no more, the buildings that used to house them still exist today
