Presentation about Welsh city Swansea

1. SWANSEA
ABERTAWE
IVANA ŠTÍPALOVÁ, KATARÍNA BEŇOVÁ

2. 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

3. • 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

4. 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

5. • 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

6. • 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 LOUGHOR
LOUGHOR ESTUARY

7. 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

8. 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

9. OYSTERMOUTH CASTLE

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

11. 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

12. Swansea Museum
The Meridian tower, Swansea

13. Victorian pier Victoria Park

14. 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?

15. • 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

16. 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?

17. Thank you for your attention

18. 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