Titanic Belfast
A six-storey landmark on the Harland & Wolff slipways, telling the ship's whole story from drawing board to the ocean floor.
Titanic Quarter
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The best places to visit in Belfast
Landmarks, museums, markets and high places — each with our honest take on who it suits and when to go. Filter by what you're in the mood for.
SS Nomadic
The tender that ferried first-class passengers out to Titanic at Cherbourg, now restored in her original Belfast dry dock.
Titanic Quarter
Thompson Dock & Pump-House
The vast graving dock built to fit the Olympic-class liners, with its original pump-house and engineering still in place.
Titanic Quarter
HMS Caroline
The last surviving Royal Navy ship from the Battle of Jutland, berthed in the Alexandra Dock.
Titanic Quarter
Belfast City Hall
An Edwardian baroque palace in Portland stone, ringed by gardens and monuments at the city's exact centre.
City Centre
Crumlin Road Gaol
A restored 1845 jail where you walk the wings, the condemned cell and the tunnel to the courthouse opposite.
North Belfast
Crown Liquor Saloon
Belfast's most beautiful pub — carved snugs, stained glass and gaslight, opposite the Europa Hotel.
City Centre
St George's Market
A brick-and-iron market hall from 1890, buzzing at weekends with producers, street food and live sessions.
City Centre
Cathedral Quarter
The city's cultural district — St Anne's Cathedral, entry-wide murals, galleries and the best bars and music.
Cathedral Quarter
Ulster Museum
A free national museum in the Botanic Gardens, spanning art, natural history and the story of the North.
Botanic
Botanic Gardens & Palm House
An 1830s public park with one of the earliest curvilinear iron-and-glass palm houses in the world.
Botanic
Queen's University Belfast
The 1849 Lanyon Building — all honey-coloured brick and turrets — fronting one of the UK's leading universities.
Botanic
Cave Hill & Belfast Castle
A country park climbing to a dramatic cliff, with a Scottish-baronial castle and panoramas over the whole city and lough.
North Belfast
The Peace Walls & Murals
The political murals and peace lines of west Belfast, best understood on a local black-cab tour.
West Belfast
Parliament Buildings, Stormont
The seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, set in a grand hilltop estate open to the public.
East Belfast
Grand Opera House
An 1895 auditorium of carved elephants, gilt and painted ceilings, still staging opera, drama and pantomime.
City Centre
Albert Memorial Clock
A 35-metre Gothic clock tower from 1869 that tilts off-vertical on its reclaimed-marsh foundations.
City Centre
The Big Fish
John Kindness's printed-tile sculpture by the Lagan, a modern symbol of a reborn riverfront.
City Centre