Belfast in Nordirland: nothing compares – with a city playlist on the way

How long not everything is Friede, Freude, Fish and Chips: Die Zeiten, in de Touristen van de northern Hauptstadt mieden wie Protestants de Katholikenviertel und umgekehrt, sind vorbei. Since they arrived in 1998 and the end of the Nordic conflicts (embarrassing The problems) have the Gästezahlen vervierfacht.

Tourists and students can visit the city in great bars and cool hotels. Modern buildings have no heruntergekomen park buildings, on the fields of the alten Werften that go to the new Viertel.

If a man hears more music in the air, from the Conserve and often live. The UNESCO „City of Music“ has 350,000 residents with „Belfast 2024“ the largest cultural festival with an 800th anniversary – until the end of the years.

Also auf geht’s! And who is it? If there are eight, so often in der Stadt-erklingenden Songs, it becomes a highlight of the highlights.

“Stairway To Heaven”: Im Oh Yeah Music Center

Nirgends with Belfast music are great at the fantastic Oh Yeah Music Centre. There are experiments in studios and clubs that founded the music of Nordirlands. Since 2008, Gary Moore’s signature Gibson guitar, the Undertones’ first single (“Teenage Kicks”) and other great music have sold more than 200,000 copies.

Starting here will start the Belfast Music Walking Tour, but it won’t last longer. When he got the world premiere of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” 1971 in the next Ulster Hall-stattfand, Snow Patrol played as the city’s music botschaft and in Szene-Clubs with “Limelight”, “The Empire” and “Voodoo” while he enjoyed himself.

“The Wild Robber”: Op dem Traditional music route

As Northern Ireland in Great Britain faces the reality of Brexit, the fact is that everyone has a strong influence on the EU-founded Republic of Ireland: history, business, speech and music.

Learn more about the Traditional Music Trail in English. The beautiful paintings are made of the artistic works of the original green walls of the Cathedral Quarter. This includes the Cathedral of St. Anne with its iconic, 40-meter-high Turmspitze “Spire of Hope”.

Profimusiker started with a visit to the Insider-Treffs, camped in the bar “The Dirty Onion”, about whom a private pub “Duke of York” opened and continued in “McHugh’s Pub”, which has been serving beer since 1711.

We are in the Quartier zur rights Once again, it is possible to enjoy musical folklore. You may have a rocking daherkommen. Nicht nur in “Thirsty Goat” between bands, the one that Menge zum Tanzen brings could – with typical Irish Instruments with Fiddle, Flöte and Banjo. While the Traditionals of course don’t like “The Wild Rover” by the Pogues and others. The melody of the Irish Gassenhauers has become one of the “One of the Nordseeküste” of Klaus and Klaus.

“Brown Eyed Girl”: I’m Queen’s Quarter

Belfast’s cock tester Musicer? Van Morrison! Kaum a live session in a pub, while the “Brown Eyed Girl” is not flashed. When hobby musicians play a song at St. George’s Market, they sing everything.

Straßenmusiker is ubiquitous, and I am Lagan, from Belfast during the flight and der time of the Promenade and the XXL art that is expanded. Or in the Botanical Garden, a popular meeting place for residents, students and tourists.

We recommend the palm house and one of the frühesten-beispiele a crumbly robe house from Gusseisen and a larger part of Belfast’s Victorian Erbe. In the garden of Queen’s University and the fact that it is the Bookshops, Vintage-Läden, Tattoo-Stuben and (vegan) cafés, it is not the case that the pink double-decker bus is sold pre-processed and extensively, while the Belfast Pride Parade is more to see is like the death of our own Rivals Dublin, yes! Ohne Musik becomes more natural than that.

“Belfast Child”: Auf Black Cab Tour

Zum Glück since 1969 und 1998 wütenden Troubles, zigfach in Filmen und Songs met “Belfast Child” van Simple Minds und “Sunday Bloody Sunday” van U2 thematic, Geschichte. I think most people want to know if they can work with the other conflict.

On Black Cab Tour it’s good. Driving Belfaster Urgestein with Billy Scott Gast through the city and erzählen veld Wissenswertes. If we show the Wagon a neuralgic Stellen, and I am Clonard Matyrs Memorial Garden, which Märtyrern had an idea of.

Scott and others, the tourists skimming through the city, also in Catholic and Protestant foursome, rightly say martial and oppressive murals that belong to the eight-meter high Peacewall. The analysis of the kilometer-long recording is with the Friedensbotschaften voll, die man kaum Platz for the own Unterschrift find. If the Frage, in any case, is also the Mauer, Scott has a local Sprichwort: “Gute Zäune machen gute Nachbarn.”

“Nothing compares to you”: sightseeing and shopping

It hasn’t been long since the tone has changed and tips for the next tag have appeared. Who owns the Ulster Museum, the art from Nordirlands Geschichte, Kunst en Natur ausstellt? Dem außerhalb located in Belfast Castle?

Centrally located on the modern Victoria Square, Belfast’s Nummer-Eins-Shoppingzentrum and the City Hall with the colorful Kuppeldach and the elegant Portland-Stein. Practical: Scott prepares some sogar hin. On the car radio it sounds like one of the greatest hits of the inselgeschichte: “Nothing Compares To You” by Sinéad O’Connor. Pass the irgendwie zum unvergleichlichen Belfast.

“My Heart Will Go On”: Wed die “Titanic”.

Céline Dion is the Kanadierin who made her Titanic ‘ist’ Belfast. Schließlich wurde das berühmteste Schiff der Welt in de Docks der zur Jahrhundertwende enormously flourishing Großstadt gebaut en 1911 vom Stapel gelassen.

Hundreds of years after the arrival of 2012, the Titanic Museum, Lighthouse project of the beautiful cities, with elegant living spaces, restaurants, marinas and living areas of the world’s largest urban development projects.

Das Museum originated from three Schiffsbug. Order an Eisberge? Inside is the Schichte des Schiffs, from Bau to his downfall. And it is clear that the “experience” is so credible and the World Travel Awards 2016 winner: it is multimedia, immersive, ultra-modern.

Man travels by gondola through the Werftkulissen, the original impulses, heritage of Einzelschicksalen and comes to Gänsehaut, when the names of the Toten and the Wand are beamed. Annoying under the sky, even though the deck itself is one meter taller, it shows “Ship of Dreams” from Dion’s Titanic-Schmachthit.

“Whisky In The Jar”: Zum Drink in den Knast

Old Bushmills in Belfast’s hinterland may be the island’s best whisky-burner, but McConnell’s is the best of the times. It can’t be that it’s a big challenge, the war is so big. Dann kamen Feuer, Prohibition, die Weltkriege und das Aus – wie für Dutzende other Irish Distilleries as well.

But 2024 is beyond that. Das Besondere: Herstellung und Besucherzentrum find in Crumlin-Road-Gaol-Gefängnis. In ehemaligen, jetzt herausgeputzten Zellen sind Maischbehälter und Brennkessel und de Probierräume unterbracht. Hinter Gitter does not find extra strong distillate from damals.

During a Tasting Tour you will learn from good guides who Sam may have distilled. Was there cases: Who has the spirituosis with Ginger-Ale, which was founded in Belfast, has worked harmoniously.

Tips and information:

Anreise: Lufthansa flies non-stop to Frankfurt after Belfast, with a Zwischenstopp besthen and other German city connections. Wer über de Republik Irland einreisen will, visit Belfast by Zug and Fernbus. Mietwagenkunden müssen von dort kommend einen Extra-Tarif beim Ausleihen abschließen. A travel pass is available for your journey to Nordirland.

Element: In the “Bullitt Hotel”, a 3-star hotel with rooftop bar in the city center, the prices were free, double zimmer with frühstück from 140 euros; a 270-degree view of more than the “Blackhead Lighthouse”, a Leuchtturm in the city with three apartments, the Wohneinheit for four guests costs from 195 Euro per night (minimum 2 nights).

Active: Black Cab Tour: Dauer: two trips, 80 Euro for both persons, the next 35 Euro, or the full car; Titanic experience: Eintritt: approx. 30 euros; McConnell’s Distillery and Visitor Experience: Distillery Tour with Whiskey Sales, approx. 30 Euro per person

Auskunft: visitbelfast.com; Northern Ireland Tourism, Maritime Belfast

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