Secret Belfast Guide

Secret Belfast: An Unusual Guide takes you beyond the Titanic Quarter and St George's Market to discover over 100 hidden places, secret spots and unusual landmarks most visitors never find.This captivating, alternative guidebook uncovers the city's most intriguing corners – quirky architecture, eccentric museums, mysterious underground spaces and enchanting green hideaways, revealing a side of Belfast that even many locals have yet to discover.Discover the C.S. Lewis Reading Room, with its door and carpet dedicated to the creator of Narnia, and learn about the 10-metre ceramic sculpture of a salmon, known locally as the Salmon of Knowledge, whose mosaic scales each reveal a different aspect of Belfast's history.Whether you love mysterious underground worlds, peaceful secret gardens or wonderfully strange museums, you'll find something unforgettable:Visit the Tropical Ravine House – where the botanical gardens hold an extremely rare one-celled fern known as the Killarney fernUncover the Crash on the Hill artefacts – the remains of a plane that crashed on Cave Hill in 1944Explore Belvoir Forest Park – to find Northern Ireland's oldest surviving oak tree, planted in 1642, with a girth that once measured around 9 metresStroll around the Linen Hall Library – discover the oldest library in Belfast. Amongst its collections you can view the definitive archive of ‘the troubles’Discover Pogue's Entry – in nearby Antrim, discover this historical cottage in a peaceful garden surrounded by period buildingsReady to see Belfast differently? Step this way and unlock the city's most curious secrets with Secret Belfast: An Unusual Guide.