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c/o Travel-Ascending.com Belfast is a vibrant, fast-moving place with great sightseeing and shopping, as well as wonderful places to eat and drink. It is an arts hub with an outstanding program of year-round events. Also, Belfast is a pleasingly walkable city laid out on a human scale. You could cross the city in an hour on foot or, as the locals say, “just take a wee dander” to admire exquisite examples of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian architecture, dominated by the magnificently domed City Hall. The barriers are down, the tanks are gone and the restaurants, cafes and pubs are full of the craic in this newly confident city. The core of downtown Belfast sits beside the west bank of the River Lagan. The city revolves around a central point, Donegall Square, which holds the city hall and concentrates on the glories brought by the Industrial Revolution: grandiose architecture and magnificent Victorian pubs. All roads radiate out from there. Donegall Place, which extends north from the square, leads to Royal Avenue, a prime shopping district. To the south are the lively and influential Queen’s University and the extensive collections of the Ulster Museum, set in the grounds of the Botanic Gardens. A climb up Cave Hill, rewards you with marvelous views of the city spread out around the curve of its natural harbor, Belfast Lough. Nearly half a million people, a third of Northern Ireland's population, reside within the city limits. With its large port, Belfast is an industrialized city, often referred to as the engine room that drove the industrial revolution in Ulster. Major industries range from linen production to shipbuilding to aircraft manufacturing. The Titanic was built in Belfast port, and today the world's largest dry dock is here. The city's architecture is particularly rich in Victorian and Edwardian buildings with elaborate sculptures over the doors and windows. Busts of gods, poets, scientists and kings peer down from the ledges of banks and old linen warehouses. Some of Belfast's grandest buildings are on the banks of Waring Street. The Ulster Bank, dating from 1860, has an interior like a Venetian palace, and the Northern Bank, dating from 1769, was originally a market house. Many other strands of Belfast history are within touching distance. Inside the beautifully carved stone and ironwork of St George’s Market flourishes again. This recently restored Victorian masterpiece is the last reminder of the great markets area of Belfast, where, for hundreds of years, the smells of fresh, country produce again mingle with the cries of the vendors. And that's the key to Belfast history—it’s alive.
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