Caerphilly
Caerphilly ( Welsh Caerffili ) is a city in Wales , Great Britain with 31,060 inhabitants (2001).
Caerphilly is the eponymous and largest city of the Caerphilly administrative district . It is located in the Rhymney Valley in the South Wales coal region about eleven kilometers north of Cardiff . It is known for its medieval fortress - a moated castle called Caerphilly Castle . The city is also the place of origin and namesake of the Caerphilly cheese , which is also the occasion for the Big Cheese Festival , which takes place every summer and which has attracted up to 80,000 visitors in recent years.
Town twinning
Caerphilly maintains a town twinning with Ludwigsburg , which was established in 1960. Further partnerships exist: since 1991 with the French town of Lannion in Brittany and since 1994 with the Czech town of Písek .
Born in Caerphilly
- Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), comedian and magician
- Martin Allen (* 1958), author and history reviser
- Sian Evans (* 1976), singer in the band Kosheen
- Aaron Ramsey (* 1990), soccer player and former captain of the Welsh national soccer team
- Lauren Price (* 1994), boxer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KS01 Usual resident population: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas
- ↑ The Big Cheese
- ^ City of Ludwigsburg, twin cities , accessed on February 4, 2011
- ↑ Agence Bretagne Press ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ International Relations of the City of Písek ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 4, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ N , 3 ° 13 ′ W