SWANSEAABERTAWE

IVANA ŠTÍPALOVÁ, KATARÍNA BEŇOVÁ

HISTORY• FOUNDED IN THE EARLY 12TH CENTURY, CASTLE • KING JOHN GAVE SWANSEA CHARTER IN 1215• BY THE 13TH CENTURY SWANSEA WAS A

FLOURISHING TOWN, POPULATION OF ABOUT 1,000.

• SWANSEA WAS BURNT SEVERAL TIMES• MAIN INDUSTRIES : LEATHER AND WOOL

COAL AND IRON (PORT)• BLACK DEATH OF 1348-49

• 15TH - SWANSEA CASTLE HAD BEEN DAMAGED BY OWAIN GLENDOWER • A POTTERY PLANT • CENTER OF THE METALWORKING INDUSTRY• TINPLATE INDUSTRY • DEPRESSION OF THE 1930S + HIGH

UNEMPLOYMENT• SECOND WORLD WAR

GEOPRAPHY• OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE CITY AND COUNTY

OF SWANSEA• COASTAL CITY AND COUNTY IN WALES • WALES'S SECOND LARGEST CITY AND THE UK'S

TWENTY-FIFTH LARGEST CITY•  THE COUNTY AREA INCLUDES THE GOWER

PENINSULA AND THE LLIW UPLANDS• BOUNDARIES• BORDERED BY UNITARY AUTHORITIES

OF CARMARTHENSHIRE TO THE NORTH, AND NEATH PORT TALBOT TO THE EAST

• BOUNDED BY SWANSEA BAY AND THE BRISTOL CHANNEL TO THE SOUTH

• THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IS 378 SQUARE KILOMETRES 

• FOUR PHYSICAL AREAS• TO THE NORTH ARE THE LLIW

UPLANDS• TO THE WEST IS THE GOWER

PENINSULA• TO THE EAST IS THE COASTAL

STRIP AROUND SWANSEA BAY

• CUTTING THOUGH THE MIDDLE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST TO THE NORTH-WEST IS THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN ZONE

• THE GOWER PENINSULA - DESIGNATED AS AN AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY

• NUMEROUS URBAN AND COUNTRY PARKLANDS, STONE-FACED BANKS AND HEDGEROWS, VALLEYS , RICH DECIDUOUS WOODLAND

• THE MOST POPULATED AREAS - MORRISTON, SKETTY AND THE CITY CENTRE

• THE TWO LARGEST RIVERS – TAWE AND LOUGHORLOUGHOR ESTUARY

DEMOGRAPHY• WALES'S SECOND LARGEST CITY • UK'S TWENTY-FIFTH LARGEST CITY• POPULATION 241,000 (+0,4%)• ETHNICITY: 97.8% WHITE 1.2% S. ASIAN 0.3% AFRO-CARIBBEAN 0.3% CHINESE

• RELIGION: CHRISTIANS ATHEISTS MUSLIMS

• MIGRATION RATES ARE ABOVE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE

• SUPPORT FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS

CULTURE• PERFORMING ARTS - THE GRAND THEATRE –

A VICTORIAN THEATRE - OPENED BY THE CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER ADELINA PATTI - PANTOMIME, DRAMA, OPERA AND BALLET• FLUELLEN THEATRE COMPANY IS A PROFESSIONAL

THEATRE COMPANY BASED IN SWANSEA• OUTDOOR SHAKESPEARE PERFORMANCES ARE A

REGULAR FEATURE AT OYSTERMOUTH CASTLE•  SINGLETON PARK IS THE VENUE FOR A

NUMBER OF PARTIES AND CONCERTS• MANY WELSH LANGUAGE CHAPELS AND

CHURCHES IN THE AREA

Grand Theatre

OYSTERMOUTH CASTLE

SPORTS• SWANSEA CITY ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB• SWANSEA RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB (SWANSEA RFC)• UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA

LEISURE AND TOURISM• A NUMBER OF BEACHES AROUND

SWANSEA BAY• THE SEASIDE VILLAGE

OF MUMBLES HAS A VICTORIAN PIER• NATIONAL WATERFRONT

MUSEUM AND SWANSEA MUSEUM, THE OLDEST MUSEUM IN WALES

•  MISSION GALLERY• THERE IS A PERMANENT EXHIBITION AT

THE DYLAN THOMAS BIRTHPLACE AND HOME

• VICTORIA PARK

Dylan Thomas Birthplace

Swansea MuseumThe Meridian tower, Swansea

Victorian pier 

Victoria Park

INTERESTING FACTS

• DID YOU KNOW THAT CATHERINE ZETA JONES WAS BORN THERE ?• DID YOU KNOW THAT SWANSEA HAS 32 MILES OF

STUNNING COAST WITH OVER 50 NAMED BEACHES – THAT’S A BEACH FOR EVERY WEEK OF THE YEAR!• DID YOU KNOW THAT SWANSEA WAS RECENTLY

NAMED AS THE CLEANEST CITY IN WALES AND IS EVEN THE SECOND CLEANEST CITY IN THE UK?

• THE REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, INCLUDING BISON, HYENA, ELEPHANT AND THE SOFT-NOSED RHINOCEROS HAVE ALL BEEN DISCOVERED ON THE GOWER PENINSULA• SWANSEA IS ON A SIMILAR LONGITUDE TO MADRID• THERE ARE 10 BLUE PLAQUES INSTALLED AROUND

SWANSEA TO REMEMBER ITS NOTABLE PEOPLE

QUESTIONS

• WHICH ACTRESS WAS BORN IN SWANSEA?• WHICH POET WAS BORN IN SWANSEA?• WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL NAME OF SWANSEA?• WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE OLDEST MUSEUM IN WALES?

Thank you for your attention

SOURCES

• HTTP://WWW.SOUTHWALES-EVENINGPOST.CO.UK/FACTS-KNEW-SWANSEA-BAY/STORY-27700344-DETAIL/STORY.HTML

• HTTP://WWW.SWANSEACITYCENTRE.COM/FACTS-AND-FIGURES/• HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/SWANSEA