See the famous sites of Belfast
with a friendly and informative guide.Take your time to stop and look around
,whenever and wherever you want.
Not when the tour bus decides.
To book a Jim's Taxi
Tour telephone: 0802 936053 (if phoning from within
the UK)
OR +44 802 936053 (if phoning from outside
the UK)
£20 ($32) per
hour + £10 ($16) per additional
half hour
A great introduction
to the sites of Belfast :
Belfast City
Hall
Built around 1903, dominates the main shopping
area. Built in the grand Classical Renaissance style, with an Italian marble
interior, it looks rather like American state capitol buildings except
for the big statue of Queen Victoria at the front.
Stormont
The political center of Northern Ireland
and home of the new parliment. This impressive white marble parliament
building lies in in its own vast grounds.
Political street
murals
See the famous street murals of both Loyalist
and Republican sides of the political divide in Northern Ireland.
Once considered to be graffiti, they have now been acknowledged as open
air political art. East Belfast - around the lower part of Newtownards
Road, the Falls Road near Sinn Fein Headquarters, as well as the Shankill
Road and Andersonstown all provide for excellent examples.
Harland and
Wolff Shipyard
The world famous shipyard where the legendary
Titanic
was built, dominates the Belfast Skyline with its two giant cranes, Samson
and Goliath.
Queen's University
With its brickwork and Tudor cloister.
It was built in 1849 by Charles Lanyon who designed more fine buildings
in Belfast than anyone before or since. The university area is full of
Edwardian terraces with magnolia trees in their front gardens.
Crown Liquor
Saloon - Belfast's most famous pub, the Crown Liquor Saloon, once a
railway hotel, has been restored by the conservationist National Trust.
Botanic Gardens - The Palm House
dates from 1839, an elegant structure of curved glass and cast iron recently
renovated. In the Tropical Ravine, plants grow in a sunken glen.
St Anne's Cathedral - go souvenir
hunting for fine Irish linen, pottery and hand-cut crystal in Belfast's
covered arcades.
St Malachy's Church - Near The Markets with Georgian buildings
around it.
Grand Opera House - Classical theatre
building, stands beside the Europa Hotel, Europe's most bombed hotel.
To book a Jim's Taxi Tour
telephone: 0802 936053 (if phoning from within the UK)
OR +44 802 936053 (if phoning from outside the UK)
Charges
£20 ($32) per
hour + £10 ($16) per additional
half hour
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