High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! St David's and the Cathedral Close, more commonly known as St David's, (Welsh: Tyddewi), is a city and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. With a population of 1,797 in 2001, it is the smallest city in the United Kingdom. Lying on the River Alyn on St David's peninsula, the city is the de facto ecclesiastical capital of Wales and the final resting place of Saint David, the country's patron saint. The area was originally known in the Welsh language as Mynyw and in Latin as Menevia, and was later renamed in honour of David. The city is built around St David's Cathedral, which in the Middle Ages was a popular place of pilgrimage. Next to it, the 14th-century Bishop's Palace is a ruin maintained by Cadw and open to visitors. St David's was once a marcher borough. In 1603 the antiquarian George Owen described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve.

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