Explore Belfast

Belfast City Hall is the seat of Belfast City Council on Donegall Square, built in Portland stone to designs by Alfred Brumwell Thomas and opened in 1906. The Baroque Revival building has a 53-metre copper dome, marble halls and stained-glass windows. A visitor exhibition covers the city's history, and the grounds hold the Titanic Memorial and the Cenotaph.

St Anne's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral on Donegall Street in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter, built in Romanesque style from 1899 to designs by Thomas Drew and completed in stages until 1981. It holds the tomb of Edward Carson, mosaics of Saint Patrick, and the 40-metre steel Spire of Hope added in 2007.

SS Nomadic is a steam tender built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast and launched in 1911 to carry passengers and mail at Cherbourg between the quay and the liners Olympic and Titanic, which were too large to dock there. Designed by Thomas Andrews, she is the last surviving White Star Line ship. Restored, she rests in Hamilton Dock, where visitors walk her decks.

Titanic Belfast is a museum on the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast's Titanic Quarter, beside the slipways where RMS Titanic was built. Opened in 2012, the eight-storey building by Eric Kuhne and Todd Architects is clad in 3,000 silver aluminium shards. Its galleries cover the city's shipbuilding, Titanic's construction, maiden voyage and sinking, and the wreck.

Belfast Castle is a Scottish baronial mansion on the slopes of Cave Hill in north Belfast, about 120 metres above sea level, built from 1867 to 1870 for the 3rd Marquess of Donegall to designs by John Lanyon. Given to the city in 1934, it houses a coffee shop and the Cave Hill visitor centre, and its gardens look out over Belfast Lough.