Architectural, Cultural sights in Belfast
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Palm House
The Botanic gardens’ centrepiece is Charles Lanyon’s beautiful Palm House, built in 1839 and completed in 1852, with its birdcage dome, a masterpiece in cast-iron and curvilinear glass. Nearby is the unique Tropical Ravine, a huge red-brick greenhouse designed by the garden’s curator Charles McKimm and completed in 1889. Inside, a raised walkway overlooks a jungle of tropical ferns, orchids, lilies and banana plants growing in a sunken glen.
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Ulster Bank Building
The most flamboyant legacy of Belfast's Victorian era is the grandiose 1860 Ulster Bank Building, now home to the Merchant Hotel, this Italianate extravaganza has a portico of soaring columns and sculpted figures depicting Britannia, Justice and Commerce, and iron railings decorated with the Red Hand of Ulster and Irish wolfhounds.
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Tropical Ravine
Near Charles Lanyon's beautiful Palm House is the unique Tropical Ravine, a huge red-brick greenhouse designed by the Botanic Gardens' curator Charles McKimm and completed in 1889. Inside, a raised walkway overlooks a jungle of tropical ferns, orchids, lilies and banana plants growing in a sunken glen.
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Clifton House
A 10-minute walk north-west from St Anne's Cathedral along Donegall and Clifton Sts leads to Clifton House, built in 1774 by Robert Joy (Henry Joy McCracken’s uncle) as a poorhouse. The finest surviving Georgian building in Belfast, it now houses a nursing home.
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