The Discovery Tour: Discover Titanic from the very spot where she was launched to the creation of the world’s largest Titanic visitor attraction. Before then the main draw was the Odyssey Arena (SSE Arena), a rather massive sports and entertainment complex (for Belfast’s standards), as well as the Belfast Harbour Marina (2009) which was implemented to host maritime events including the Tall Ships festival. It was used for many years by the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff, who built huge slipways and graving docks to accommodate the simultaneous construction of, the. Titanic Slipways & Plaza: Titanic Belfast stands at the head of the historic slipways where Titanic was built and is surrounded by a plaza laden with hidden symbolism just waiting to be discovered.
It cost £77m to construct - with most of the. This was soon followed by the development of further museums and tourist attractions like SS Nomadic, and the Titianic Hotel (2017), and just a proper tourist infrastructure in the area. Now a century later the slipways are dominated by the imposing Titanic Belfast centre designed to commemorate the most famous vessel ever built. Located beside the Titanic Slipways is the Titanic museum Titanic Belfast is just a short walk from Belfasts city centre so you can also explore the Harland and Wolff Drawing Offices and Hamilton Graving Dock the very place where the Titanic was designed, built, and launched. The Titanic Quarter is a relatively new tourist area in Belfast City Centre, or at least it was a bit of a mess before the rejuvenation of the Belfast harbour area spurred by the opening of the Titanic Belfast Museum (2012).
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