Attractions and Places to Visit in Newport

From fabulous art exhibitions at the City Art Gallery, discovering the city’s history at the Museums and Garden to seeing chart topping bands, whatever your mood, Newport has an attraction or activity to delight your senses.

We have gathered some of Newport’s best attractions to help you plan your stay there or to simply enlighten you of what else this postcode area has to offer:

• A place shaped by the local community, Tredegar House and its surrounding gardens and parkland stand proudly at the heart of Newport’s heritage.
• The National Roman Legion Museum displays an amazing collection of artifacts from Roman Caerleon, the base of the second Augustan Legion.
• The Marble House - a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces.

National Roman Legion Museum

Step back in time at the National Roman Legion Museum and explore life in a far-flung outpost of the mighty Roman Empire. Wales was the furthest outpost of the Roman Empire. In AD 75, the Romans built a fortress at Caerleon that would guard the region for over 200 years.

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The Newport Ship

The Newport Medieval Ship is a fifteenth century merchant vessel unearthed in the heart of Newport in 2002. Experts believe the 30m (98ft), 400 tonne, medium-sized boat was having a refit in Newport in 1468 or 1469 following a voyage from the Iberian Peninsula to Bristol when its moorings broke.

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Tredegar House

Our mansion has seen its fair share of dark days and golden ages. From a 'faire place of stone' to the flamboyant, red brick restoration mansion you see today...inside and out, even the walls have stories to tell.
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