Roald Dahl Plass

Thursday, 17th July 2008 by

Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff, Wales, is named after everyone's favourite Children's author Roald Dahl who was born here in the Capital, and the word "plass", meaning "plaza", is a nod to his parent's Norwegian origins.

If you're a fan of Doctor Who or the Torchwood spin-off, then you'll immediately recognise this as being the location of a spatio-temporal rift in time1.

At the north end of the plaza stands a 21m tall water fountain (which hides the entrance to the secret Torchwood underground cave).

The south-east of the Plaza is home to the National Assembly for Wales, the Senedd. We looked for the Senedd before while touring the United Kingdom’s devolved assemblies, but it wasn't finished then.

At the north-east of the square is the Wales Millennium Centre, a hall for performing arts. The front of the building has an enormous Welsh poem written across its entire face using the medium of windows. You can read the windows in Microsoft's bird's eye view imagery.

There's more information on Roald Dahl Plass and Cardiff Bay on Wikipedia.

Thanks to AndrewAnorak, Jam, braddie, and Andrew Shackson.


  1. If you didn't watch either of these shows then I apologise for the gibberish. ↩︎