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Over recent years there has been big investment to enhance the facilities at Bangor. In particular the Pontio arts and innovation centre, with a 450 seat main theatre, as well as a smaller experimental theatre and a cinema. The University’s Canolfan Brailsford Sports centre has also had large investment to provide it with a variety of gyms, sports halls and courts fitted with state-of-the-art equipment.
The city possesses a diverse array of museums and galleries, such as the Storiel, a historical and artistic museum located in the former bishops palace. If classical music is your thing then regular concerts can be attended at the Powis and Prichard-Jones Halls, and once a year the Bangor Festival brings a varied bill including contemporary compositions, chamber music, multimedia performances and lectures.
In the morning when Bangor Mountain casts a shadow over the high street, you might take this as a sign to get down there and enjoy the varied and eclectic array of shops and places to eat out. You can get an excellent breakfast or burger from Blue Sky, or some mouth-watering tapas to wash down with vino at the buzzing cafe-bar 1815.
The main centre of student social life centres around the university campus, with its array of of food and drink outlets and all manner of entertainments and sport tournaments . The Academi nightclub provides the main source of night-time entertainment, where you can dance away the nights when you haven’t got a morning lecture!
There is a very established tourism industry in Bangor but also a booming creative and technology sector, from new IT and software firms such as Gaia Technologies to the BBC studios which produces much of the content for BBC Radio Wales.
The city is by the mystical heartland of the druids, from ancient burial chambers, to the not so ancient 19th century faux-medieval Penrhyn castle. For the adventurous there is all manner of outdoor pursuits from hiking and climbing in the mountains of Snowdonia, to surfing along the coast.
With a student population of 18,000 and regarding as one of the safest cities to live in Wales, Bangor is a very welcoming place to study with a great student social network. It is also ranked as one of the cheapest cities in the UK so is also a great choice for value.
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