Tourism Archives - Belfast Entries

Waring Street Belfast – From Early days to the Merchant Hotel

Belfast’s Waring Street has a rich history with links to sea trade, ceramics, and Gulliver’s Travels. It now hosts the opulent Merchant Hotel

A history of Ballymacarrett from it’s rural beginnings, to a small village and subsequent emergence as a hub of Belfast industry & enterprise

Belfast features a range of sea sculptures in commemoration of it’s maritime history. A number of these sculptures are presented in this post

The Girona story covers the Spanish Armada of 1588, war at sea, nature unleased and death. Only the Girona treasures remain.

Roughfort, Co Antrim, has 3 historic sites close to each other – a Bronze Age passage grave, a Norman motte and a 200+yo Liberty Tree

A walk around Belfast’s Queen’s Quarter – this is the area around Queen’s University Belfast and the neighbouring Botanic Gardens