Millennium Stadium
Whether you know your rugby from your soccer or whether you’re a sports fan or not, the Millennium Stadium is worth a visit. This impressive structure that takes pride and place by the river Taff in the centre of Cardiff .
This 72,500 seater, stadium is the largest sports venue in the whole of the UK, it cost £110m to build and is fitted with an 800 ton sliding roof topping the three-tiered stadium. It was finished in 1999 in time to host the Rugby World Cup and has since taken over from Wembley in London to host the (soccer) FA Cup Final each year.
Rousing choruses from the stands can be heard across the city, when the roof is off. And the stadium really comes alive when the Welsh Rugby team play at home in the Six Nations Championship, especially if they are playing England . But it’s not just the rugby you can watch at the stadium, it’s also a venue for live music when the turf is lifted in 7,400 pieces.
This sporting amphitheatre and engineering marvel, is open for tours when it is not in use. Visitors can go into the player’s dressing room, through the player’s tunnel and out onto the pitch. You can also sit in the Royal Box where the Queen , Prince Philip and the Prince of Wales watched the Rugby World Cup and sample the hospitality boxes and the banqueting suite where the players gather after battling each other on the field.
