Editing Swansea (section)

===Festivals===
[[File:St david's day swansea 2009.jpg|thumb|Red fountain water during the celebration of St David's Day]]

Swansea hosted the [[National Eisteddfod]] in 1863, 1891, 1907, 1926, 1964, 1982 and 2006. The 2006 event occupied the site of the former [[Felindre, Swansea|Felindre]] tinplate works to the north of the city and featured a strikingly pink main tent. In 2009 Swansea Council launched Wales's only week long [[St David's Week]] festival in venues throughout the city. ''The Beginning'' and ''Do Not Go Gentle'' are Festivals in the Uplands area of the city, where Dylan Thomas was born and lived for 23 years.

Swansea is known for its celebration of [[Beaujolais Day]], with people booking tables in restaurants and bars for the day up to a year in advance to ensure they can sample the year's newly released Beaujolais wine.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/one-welsh-city-goes-mad-13789041 |title=Why Swansea goes mad for Beaujolais Day |last1=Rees |first1=Mark|last2=Bellis |first2=Katie |date=20 November 2019 |website=[[Walesonline]]|access-date=12 June 2021}}</ref> Historian [[Peter Stead (writer)|Peter Stead]] argues that its rise in popularity there can be traced to the city's ''No Sign Bar'', owned in the 1960s by former [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales rugby union]] captain [[Clem Thomas]], who owned a house in Burgundy and could transport Beaujolais quickly and cheaply to south Wales, and suggests that it reflected Swansea's efforts to "gentrify and intellectualise itself" at the time. In 2015, it was estimated that Beaujolais Day contributed £5&nbsp;million to the local economy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38000337 |title=Why is Swansea leading a Beaujolais Day revival? |last=Prior |first=Neil |date=17 November 2016 |website=[[bbc.co.uk]] |access-date=12 June 2021}}</ref>