Belfast Titanic City

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Belfast Titanic City
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Gillian Stewart Languages/International Team
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Did you Know? ????

• The Evening Herald Travel Awards (2003) chose
  Belfast as
• the Best City Break Destination
• The Guardian/Observer Travel Awards have ranked
  Belfast
• among the top five UK cities
• There were 5.3 million visitor trips to Belfast
  in 2003 worth
• 232 million to the citys economy
• Since 1999 43 luxury cruise liners have docked
  in Belfast
• with nearly 36,000 visitors 23 more cruise
  ships will have
• visited Belfast by the end of Summer 2006
  making the city
• an established international port of call

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What do you think of Belfast? ????
Belfast has a warmth and friendliness that
completely upended my prejudices. I have been a
regular visitor to the city for the last 20
years, drawn back by the audiences, the life of
the city itself and the beauty of the scenery
that surrounds it." Michael Palin,
Comedian/Actor/Author/Travel Writer
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What do you think of Belfast? ????
"I  love the place and it is so much nicer than
D - you don't get harassed by people as much.
People in Belfast know how to have a good time
and they don't have any ego with them." Shane
Filan, Singer with pop group Westlife
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Out and About in Belfast
Lagan Lookout
Ulster Museum
St Annes Cathedral
Titanic Memorial
Belfast Telegraph Newspaper
The Odyssey Arena
The Waterfront Hall
The Palm House Botanical Gardens
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Historic Belfast
Belfast Castle
Grand Opera House
Albert Memorial Clock
Linen Hall Library
The Crown Liquor Saloon
Queens University
City Hall
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Shopping in Belfast
Castle Court Shopping Centre
Queens Arcade
Royal Avenue
St Georges Market
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Belfast
famous for
AEROSPACE
Harland and Wolff Shipyard
Shipbuilding
Aeronautical Engineering
RMS Titanic
Titanic leaving Belfast on 2 April 1912
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Belfast
famous for
Irish Linen
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Belfast
Bernard MacLaverty Author
famous for
Seamus Heaney, Poet Nobel Prize Winner, 1995
Literature and Art
C S Lewis, Author
Sir John Lavery,Artist
for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth,
which exalt everyday miracles and the living
past.
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Belfast
Famous for
Festivals
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Belfast
Famous for
Wall Murals
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Belfast
famous for
Music and Drama
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Belfast Giants British Ice Hockey Champions

Belfast
Ballet in the concert hall
famous for
Super Entertainment!
Live Music
Good craic in the Crown Liquor
Saloon, Belfasts oldest pub
The Ulster Orchestra
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Barry Douglas, Pianist
Kenneth Branagh, Actor
Brian Kennedy, Singer
George Best, Footballer
James Galway, Flautist
Famous People from Belfast
Van Morrison, Singer/Composer
Chaim Herzog, President of Israel
John Dunlop, Tyre Inventor
Derek Bell, Harpist The Chieftains