Belfast, the main city of Northern Ireland and an extremely beautiful place with a number of interesting attractions. So, that's what you can see here:
Olster Museum (Ulster Museum)
The museum is located on the territory of the Botanical Garden and covers an area of 8000 sq.m. This is the biggest museum in the country. The museum is very old, was founded in 1821, and since then has already managed to change the location and even the name (currently wears a little more than half a century). In the museum you can see a variety of zoological exhibits - insects, mammals, invertebrates and insects, which live in the territory of Ireland. The Museum also keeps numerous essential books and manuscripts on natural history. In addition, the museum has exhibitions of applied art, archeology and ethnography. And the main pride of the institution is a skeleton of triceratops, which is perfectly preserved, despite its age.
Address: Ulster Museum, 8 Stranmillis Rd, Botanic Gardens
Giant's Ring (Giant's Ring)
This is one of the oldest and mystical ritual structures of Northern Ireland. The monument can be found on the territory of the County of Down, next to Belfast. The construction is a fenced with a massive earth shaft of 3.5 meters space of approximately 3 hectares and a diameter of 180 meters. The center can be passed through any of the 5 inputs. In the center you can find the grave tombstone of the era of Megalith from massive stones. Scientists suggest that this tombstone was delivered here in 3000 BC. It's incredible! By the way, this is not the only similar circle, there are some more across Britain, but it is this ring is the biggest one. In the 18th century there were horse competitions here, until the Lord stumbled upon the ritual part of the construction. Since then, this monument is protected by the state.
Address: Ballynahatty, County Down
Titanic Belfast Museum
This is a museum of sea ships with the Titanic Quarter shipyard. The exhibition opened a couple of years ago, but immediately became quite popular among tourists. In the museum of 14,000 sq.m. You can admire all sorts of exhibits, objects and photographs relating to the history of the creation of that very Titanic and two other ships, liners of Olympic and Britannik. The museum has the same height as Titanic - 38 meters. Therefore, standing at the entrance to the museum, you begin to imagine yourself a little on the site of passengers of the legendary ship. The exposition that is dedicated to the death of the vessel, there are 400 copies of rescue vests and boats, which were used by passengers of a sinking vessel. The museum is very famous, more than 400 thousand guests come to admire the historical liner every year. From April to September, the museum is open from 9-00 to 19-00, and in October-March - from 10-00 to 17-00.
Address: 1, Olympic Way, Queens Road
Belfast Castle (Belfast Castle)
The castle can be found on the territory of a beautiful Kaivhill Park, at an altitude of 120 meters above sea level. A beautiful view of the city and the surrounding neighborhood offers this mountain. The initial castle was built at the end of the 12th century by order of Sir Arthur Chichester, the famous Polfast policy of those times. At the beginning of the 18th century, the castle was completely destroyed during a fire, but instead of rebuilding the fortress in the same place, Sir Arthur chose a new place outside the city, as his very inspired local nature and landscape. What we can see now is the result of the fifty-year construction of the 19th century. The Belfast state relevant to this construction and in the third fourth of the last century for the repair of the castle, a large amount was even allocated. The castle is open to the visit, there are weddings and cultural events here, there is an expensive restaurant and an antique store.
Address: Antrim RD
Donegall Square
The most important area of the city, in which each side is called in accordance with its geographical position -Sever, South, East and West. In the center of the square there is a city town hall in the Baroque style, which was built here for more than 15 years in honor of the dating queen Victoria Belfast of the city. Opposite the Town Hall, you can see the oldest library of the city of Linen Hall Library, which is here already since 1788. The library carefully stores the most famous books and manuscripts on the history of Belfast and all Olster, as well as some old magazines and newspapers 18 and 19th centuries, maps and documents in which the details of the intercommunal conflicts of Belfast are indicated. It is impossible to pass by the memorial dedicated to the death of the great liner "Titanic" (after all, the ship was built on the shipyards of Belfast and it was from here that he went to his tragic first and last flight). Based on the monument, you can see the names of the people who drowned together with the liner.
Queen's University of Belfast (Queen's University Belfast)
The university was opened in 1849 and then called the Royal College of Belfast. Since then, architecture and luxurious appearance of a red brick building have not changed. By the way, the University himself plays a crucial role in the scientific life of the country and even enters the 20 leading research universities in Great Britain.
Address: University RD (next to Ulster Museum)
Albert Tower (Albert Memorial Clock Tower)
This 35-meter tower is located on the Royal Square of Belfast. She was built in 1870 in honor of Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. As for the style of the tower, then the mixture of French and Italian gothic is clearly felt. At the base of the structure, you can see the sculptures of Lviv, and in the center we see the statue of Prince Albert. Inside the tower there is a bell weighing two tons - he is ringing when the clock beat his time. Accordingly, there is a dial on the tower, a copy of the London clock on Big Bene. What is so interesting this tower? When the construction was only in the drawings, the architects missed the fact that the land on the Malrera construction is swampy. After the construction of the wooden pile, which held a huge weight, "had fallen", and the tower began to roll. To the tower and did not collapse at all, some of the jewelry had to remove it. Today the tower has already tamed at 1.25 cm. Of course, tourists cannot miss their chance to take pictures with the local Pisa Tower.
Address: Queens Square