Monument sights in Belfast
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Scottish Provident Building
On Donegall Sq West is the ornate 1897-1902 Scottish Provident Building. It's decorated with a veritable riot of fascinating statuary, including several allusions to the industries that assured Victorian Belfast's prosperity, as well as sphinxes, dolphins and lions' heads. The building was the work of the architectural partnership of Young and MacKenzie, who counterbalanced it in 1902 with the red sandstone Pearl Assurance Building on Donegall Sq East.
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Lord Kelvin Statue
The green oasis of Belfast's Botanic Gardens is a short stroll away from the university. Just inside the Stranmillis Rd gate is a statue of Belfast-born William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, who helped lay the foundation of modern physics and who invented the Kelvin scale that measures temperatures from absolute zero (-273°C or 0°K).
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Solidarity Wall
The Solidarity Wall is a collection of murals expressing republican sympathies with, among others, the Palestinians, the Kurds and the Basques, along with several anti-George W Bush murals.
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