Belfast Untold
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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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activityLevel
Moderate Activity
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excursionType
Information Not Currently Available
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wheelchairAccessible
No
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startingAtPrice
$250
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minimumAge
Information Not Currently Available
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duration
Approximately 3½ Hours
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mealsIncluded
Meals included
From your motorcoach, admire in the evening light the many delightful Victorian and Edwardian buildings of Belfast. Many of them feature elaborate sculptures over their doors and windows. Stone-carved heads of gods, poets, scientists, and kings and queens peer down from the high ledges of banks and old linen warehouses.
Belfast has a long and often turbulent history. This tour of the capital city of Northern Ireland, takes you to the landmarks that have played their part in the city's colorful development -- from its great industrial triumphs to the civil unrest that has tarnished Belfast's image.
Your guide will tell you about the Grand Opera House, the Albert Memorial, City Hall and Queen's University. The latter was established in 1845 by Queen Victoria as one of the three Colleges of Ireland, the others being at Cork and Galway.
Some 'alternative' sights of Belfast include the political wall murals -- a unique cultural statement indeed. You'll have time here for photographs.
Watch for the former Crumlin Road Gaol (Jail), where more than 20,000 prisoners were housed from 1845 until it closed in 1996.
A local establishment hosts you for dinner as entertainers lead you on a 'journey' through the hidden back streets and lost lanes of Belfast -- a narrated music and dance performance that pulses with the city's heartbeat. This is an enchanting time hour in the company of world-champion Irish dancers and musicians who have honed and applied their trade on many a highway and by-way. Try your hand at sean-nós and céilí dancing as the entertainers sing and play some local melodies and street songs that would have been heard in the shipyards, mills and markets of old. Music played will likely include harp, uilleann pipes, bodhrán, guitar, flute, fiddle, concertina and whistles, offering a special something for everyone on this cultural experience that expounds Belfast Untold.
Rejoin your motorcoach for the return journey to Belfast port and your ship.
Please note: Tour is not necessarily wheelchair accessible -- availability and group size will determine the venue, which in turn determines wheelchair accessibility.