Belfast City HallOpened on Donegall Square in 1906 and built of Portland stone. William Pirrie brought skilled men from the Harland and Wolff shipyard to fit out the interiors, and guided tours go inside.
Museum
Titanic Belfast
Belfast, County Down
The museum stands beside the slipways where the Titanic was built and launched, and a ticket also takes you aboard SS Nomadic, the last surviving White Star Line ship.
- Where
- Belfast, County Down
- Official site
- titanicbelfast.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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Belfast City HallOpened on Donegall Square in 1906 and built of Portland stone. William Pirrie brought skilled men from the Harland and Wolff shipyard to fit out the interiors, and guided tours go inside.
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Ulster MuseumThe museum sits inside Botanic Gardens on Stranmillis Road, and its collections run from natural science to art.
Cave Hill Country Park and Belfast CastleThe park takes its name from five caves in the cliffs above north Belfast. Belfast Castle, finished in 1870, sits on the lower slopes and McArt's Fort is up on the cliff top.
Ulster Folk MuseumAn open-air museum at Cultra, outside Holywood, opened in 1964, where cottages, shops and a school moved from across Ulster were rebuilt and the old crafts are still shown.
Scrabo TowerA stone tower finished in 1859 on top of Scrabo Hill above Newtownards, in a country park of woodland and old quarries looking over Strangford Lough.More in Down
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Mount StewartHouse and gardens · NewtownardsThe Stewart family's neoclassical house on the Ards Peninsula looks over Strangford Lough, and Edith, Lady Londonderry designed the gardens around it from the 1920s.
Tollymore Forest ParkForest · NewcastleForest at the foot of the Mournes near Newcastle, open all year, with views of the sea and paths on foot up to Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh.
Castle WardHouse and gardens · StrangfordBernard Ward and Lady Ann Bligh built this house above Strangford Lough in the 1760s, with a classical entrance front and a Gothic garden front.
Silent Valley ReservoirLake · KilkeelBelfast's water supply reservoir in the high Mournes was begun in 1923 and opened in 1933, and a trail runs up the valley to Ben Crom Reservoir.
Strangford LoughLake · StrangfordThe largest sea lough in the British Isles and a Marine Conservation Zone, crossed at its narrow mouth by the Strangford to Portaferry ferry.
Castlewellan Forest ParkForest · CastlewellanForest park on the north side of the Mournes with a lake you can fish and canoe on, and the Annesley Garden and Arboretum inside the grounds.