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The Castle Arcade is a shopping
arcade
Arcade most often refers to:
* Arcade game, a coin-operated game machine
** Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade game's hardware
** Arcade system board, a standardized printed circuit board
* Amusement arcade, a place with arcade games
* ...
in
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
,
South Wales.
Started in 1887, it runs south from opposite
Cardiff Castle, and then turns east to exit on the High Street, north of
St Mary Street, in the
Castle Quarter. One of the longer of Cardiff's famous Victorian arcades, it is also one of Cardiff's only two level shopping arcades, the other being
Cardiff Market
Cardiff Market ( cy, Marchnad Caerdydd), also known as Cardiff Central Market ( cy, Marchnad Ganolog Caerdydd) and as the Market Building, is a Victorian indoor market in the Castle Quarter of Cardiff city centre, capital city of Wales.
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Castle Arcade has a variety of small shops including cafes, delicatessens, fair-trade and organic retailers. There are also several shops on the gallery level.
Castle Arcade was Grade II*
listed
Listed may refer to:
* Listed, Bornholm, a fishing village on the Danish island of Bornholm
* Listed (MMM program), a television show on MuchMoreMusic
* Endangered species in biology
* Listed building, in architecture, designation of a historicall ...
in 1975, being the "finest of Cardiff's Victorian arcades". The four storey entrance block facing onto the High Street is separately listed, also as Grade II*.
Entrance Block to Castle Arcade, Castle
British Listed Buildings.co.uk. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
See also
*List of shopping arcades in Cardiff
Shopping arcades in Cardiff include indoor shopping centres and arcades in Cardiff city centre, Wales. Cardiff is known as the "City of Arcades", due to the highest concentration of Victorian, Edwardian and contemporary indoor shopping arcad ...
References
External links
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Cardiff Castle Arcade Official Website
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Shopping arcades in Cardiff
Grade II* listed buildings in Cardiff
Grade II* listed retail buildings
Shopping malls established in 1887
Castle, Cardiff