Cardiff

Cardiff is the youngest capital city in Europe, a fact that surprises most visitors who arrive expecting something ancient and leave bewildered by how much there is. Wales has been here for millennia, but Cardiff only got the capital title in 1955.

Stroll from a Norman castle into a Victorian arcade, then out again onto a waterfront that was, a century ago, shipping the finest coal in the world to navies across the globe. Cardiff Bay still exhales that ambition, the domes and columns of its Civic Centre, the gothic towers along Bute Park, the ghost stories that cling to Llandaff Cathedral like morning mist. And then there's the Whoniverse: Cardiff's secret identity as the filming home of Doctor Who and Torchwood, hiding in plain sight.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours thread all of it together. Plug in your earbuds and Wales will do the talking.