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It was largely in Victorian times that the great industrialists and entrepreneurs of Belfast - shipbuilders, engineers, and linen barons - made their money and left their mark. Their burning pride in their city stands all around you. The City Hall, whose influence radiates outward from the heart of the city, is not just a magnificent piece of Classical Renaissance architecture - it's a statement. 'We are equal', its great marbled halls announce 'to any city in the world'. That pride finds an echo in a hundred such magnificent buildings, red brick and sandstone, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian that spread around the city.

Many other strands of Belfast history are within touching distance. Inside the beautifully carved stone and ironwork of St George's Market near the waterfront, a vital artery of city life flourishes again. This recently-restored Victorian masterpiece is the last reminder of the great markets area of Belfast, where, for hundreds of years, the smells of fresh, country produce mingled with the cries and sharp wit of the vendors. They still do.

And that's the key to Belfast history - it's alive. From the city's great literary heritage, rekindled at the elegantly-restored Linen Hall library with its priceless collection of books; to living history of a different kind - the buzz that hums around countless, beautifully-preserved city pubs, such as The Crown Liquor Saloon in Great Victoria Street, the world's most exquisite Victorian pub.
Whatever its scale, history here still has the power to touch. The great exhibitions at the Ulster Museum reveal the bigger picture of Belfast's heritage but at Culturlann, the Irish arts centre in the Falls Road, and Fernhill House in the Shankill, you get the people's story too.

And while you're in the area, join the crowds of tourists queuing to be photographed at those world-famous Troubles icons, the political murals. In Belfast, history is all around you.

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