Belfast Historical and Cultural Private Tour

This fully private tour differs from routine Belfast tours because it includes Irelands origins with a visit to a 5000 year old site right through to todays troubled history and where we are post conflict. This will give you a great unbiased understanding of our history, past and new including our beautiful buildings and landmarks. 
We look forward to welcoming you on our tour

Meeting Point

5 Bedford St

5 Bedford St, Belfast BT2 7EJ, UK

We will meet you at the hotel lobby of Grand Central if not collecting you at your accommodation.

What to expect:

Duration: 4 hours

Giant's Ring

Off B23, 5 KM South of The City Centre Ballynahatty Road, Belfast, BT8 8LE

We start of our tour at the Giants Ring on the outskirts of Belfast. Here we will give you a timeline for our history and where better to do this than at ancient monument predating the pyramids to a time around 5000 years ago

30 minutes

Queen's University

University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN

Travel into south Belfast with its lovely houses and a look around Queens University which is a beautiful building

20 minutes

Peace Wall

15 Cupar Way, Belfast, BT13 2RX

A visit to the peace walls helps to explain and put in context the conflict that took place in Northern Ireland from the late 60s that most are familiar with. We show you both sides of the divide and give you a historical unbiased overview of the city

45 minutes

Cathedral Quarter

69 Donegall St, Belfast

This area has a fantastic history with beautiful buildings and monuments right around the city centre. Now a lively tourist area with many bars and restaurants we can drive around this area and see the sights.

50 minutes

Belfast City Hall

Donegall Square, Belfast, BT1 5GS

Construction started in the late Victorian era and city hall was built to celebrate Belfast gaining city status with its mighty industries of shipbuilding and linen production being the best in the world. You will have time to stroll around its grounds and see inside this magnificent building and the area around it.

20 minutes

Titanic Belfast

Queen's Road, 1 Olympic Way, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, BT3 9EP

Stop at the titanic Museum visiting the shop and seeing where Titanic launched from. We also see one of the last surviving battleships from the First World War and the mighty cranes from Harland and Wolf shipyards who built the Titanic
We then pass through into East Belfast where we see some examples of Victorian Belfast and some more murals depicting the troubles from the British perspective.

30 minutes

Parliament Buildings

Stormont Upper Newtownards Road, Stormont Estate, Belfast, BT4 3XX

The beautiful grounds and building known as Stormont, built in 1921 and opened in 1932 is next on the tour where you can see inside with its Greek classical style opulent marble. This building was formed as part of the new governance of Northern Ireland after partition and has a great history.
We then finish the tour where you will have seen the best of the city past and presented hopefully a great understanding of our rich history.

30 minutes