Merthyr Tydfil town centre has some amazing buildings, monuments, and artworks with lots of interesting and unusual features, from mythical creatures to ferocious animals to famous faces and plenty of stories from past and present. Join this FUN FAMILY TRAIL and discover lots of interesting facts about Merthyr Tydfil, both then in the past and today, in the present. Each of the recommended stops – FOUR in total – has something for YOU to do: a puzzle to solve, an artefact to photograph, or questions to answer. Plus, there are prizes to be won! The tour is free and will [...]

Join local historian Huw Williams for this free guided walk around Merthyr Tydfil town centre talking about all things Welsh. Learn about the history of the Welsh language in Merthyr Tydfil, who spoke it, the different and distinct dialects, its rise, fall and revival. And see examples of the Welsh language visible today in the town's art, architecture and public spaces. The guided walk starts from Canolfan Soar and ends at Redhouse, taking in examples of the Welsh language from plaques to poems and tombstones to place names. As Huw writes, "Merthyr Tydfil is a Welsh town: it always has [...]

Find out all about the women who have played an often largely hidden role in the rich history of our town on this entertaining and enlightening guided walk with local historian Huw Williams. Starting and finishing with the martyr herself, the tour includes a couple of redoubtable shopkeepers, a connection to Queen Victoria, some formidable women protesters, links to the coal trade and much more! The tour is free and will last approximately 1 hour 15 minutes. Please gather at the War Memorial at the top of Pontmorlais at 5.55pm ready for a 6pm start. The walk finishes outside St [...]

Merthyr Tydfil town centre has some amazing buildings, monuments, and artworks with lots of interesting and unusual features, from mythical creatures to ferocious animals to famous faces and plenty of stories from past and present. Join this FUN FAMILY TRAIL and discover lots of interesting facts about Merthyr Tydfil, both then in the past and today, in the present. Each of the recommended stops – FOUR in total – has something for YOU to do: a puzzle to solve, an artefact to photograph, or questions to answer. Plus, there are prizes to be won! The tour is free and will [...]

The continuing uncertainty caused by the pandemic means that Merthyr Tydfil’s Christmas lights will have a ‘virtual’ switch-on for the second year in a row. With Covid-19 infections still at a high rate across the UK, We Love Merthyr and partners Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council and St Tydfil Shopping Centre have reluctantly taken the decision not to have a switch-on event. Instead, we will be bringing Christmas magic safely and cosily to your homes with a live broadcast from the Capital FM Headquarters, hosted by Josh and Kally and Santa Claus himself! Enjoy interviews, a Christmas giveaway, and some [...]

Merthyr's hottest event of the year is back - Merthyr CHILLI Fiesta!! Join us from 10am on Saturday 25th June on Penderyn Square for all things chilli This event will showcase some of the most well-known chilli producers from all over the UK. Exhibiting only the best chilli products from crazy extreme chilli sauces, naga cooking sauces, chilli plants, chilli, chilli pastes, pickles, seeds, chilli dips, and chilli beer to merchandise and more. With around 20 vendors and well over 100 types of chilli products for you to choose from, there is something for everyone from the hardcore enthusiast chilli [...]

If you love food, you'll love Merthyr Food Festival! Merthyr's tastiest festival returns to the town centre on Saturday, 16th July. The festival includes around 40 food, drink, and cooking stalls, plus chef demos, a popup vegan festival, children's activities and live entertainment. The event is FREE, and don't forget, parking is only £1 all day in the town centre pay and display car parks.

Join local historian Huw Williams for A Jewish Trail around Merthyr town centre. Learn all about The Synagogue, the first purpose-built Jewish place of Worship in South Wales and find out more about the Jewish people who resided in the town. The walk is free, and all ages and walking abilities are welcome. Please gather outside Redhouse at 5:55pm, ready to set off at 6:00pm.

A free guided walk with local historian Huw Williams on the subject of all things food and drink! Find out how our eating habits have changed over the last few decades with new cuisines coming into the town. Discover why drinking the local beers and ales was a very good idea in previous centuries. Visit some of the town's best-known pubs and eateries, and hear the tales that have made them the stuff of Merthyr legend! Please gather outside Redhouse at 10.55am, ready to set off at 11:00. All ages and walking abilities are welcome.

Be afraid, be very afraid!! Where better to celebrate Halloween than on a spooky walk with local historian Huw Williams? Wear your Halloween costume (or something dark) and walk in the scary footsteps of ghosts and ghouls with a visit to a cholera cemetery and a poor law workhouse, listen to creepy tales and walk ghoulishly dark back alleys. What horrors await you? All ages are welcome, whether you’re a grown-up ghoul or a tiny terror. The tour is free and will last approximately 2 hours. Please gather outside Redhouse at 3.55pm, ready for a 4pm start. The first 100 [...]

Calling all superheroes!! With great power comes great responsibility....Get the kids dressed up and ready to meet their favourite Superheroes. Join us between 11am – 3pm on Wednesday, 2nd November at Graham Way in the town centre when the mightiest heroes will fly into town for Merthyr’s very first Superhero Day. Superheroes, unite! Meet all your favourite superheroes, including Captain America, Spider-Man, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Iron Man, Harley Quinn, Star Wars Villian Kylo Ren, and every little girl's favourite heroine, Elsa. Snap a selfie with the incredible 1989 Batmobile, and don’t forget to come along dressed up as [...]

Make Christmas extra special this year by attending the first Merthyr Tydfil Christmas Family Fun Day in three years. The seasonal fun starts at 11am with festive walkabout characters, including a stilt-walking musical toy soldier, Carol and Belle's Christmas Party, and the Christmas Nutkins, Santa’s grotto, a Farmers Market, a Christmas tree festival, and much more. Plus, back by popular demand, we have the hilarious Musical Ruth and her turbo-charged magical mobile piano - chock a block with your favourite Christmas songs, crazy dance routines, hilarious facial contortions and mad sound effects, all mixed up with oodles of festive cheer. [...]