Northern Ireland's Revival City — the Titanic Museum on the slipway where she was built, murals from the Troubles, the Cathedral Quarter food scene, and the most dramatic urban transformation in the British Isles
Belfast is the most dramatically transformed city in the British Isles — a city that was synonymous with sectarian violence during the Troubles (1968–1998) and has since become one of the UK's most exciting food and culture destinations, its former industrial waterfront reimagined as the Titanic Quarter. The Titanic Belfast museum, opened in 2012 on the exact slipway where the RMS Titanic was built and launched, is the world's largest Titanic visitor experience and consistently voted Europe's leading tourist attraction. The Cathedral Quarter's cobblestone streets are lined with independent re…
Belfast was a small market town until the Industrial Revolution — specifically the linen and shipbuilding industries — transformed it into one of the most important industrial cities in the British Empire. By 1900, Harland and Wolff's shipyard at Queen's Island was the largest in the world. The RMS Titanic, the largest ship ever built, was constructed here and launched in 1911; RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic were built here too. Belfast became the capital of Northern Ireland when Ireland was partitioned in 1921. The Troubles — the ethnonationalist conflict between Unionist/Loyalist Protestant…