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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 17/06/2026 21:36:00

Dylan Thomas was born here, called it an ugly, lovely town, and spent most of his short life trying to escape it while drawing on it for everything he wrote — and the description has stuck as the most honest available, capturing in three words the contradictions of a post-industrial Welsh city whose considerable beauty (the Gower Peninsula immediately to the west is one of the finest stretches of coastal scenery in Britain, the first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty designated in the UK) coexi...