Belfast City Centre
Central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Belfast City Centre is the central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Belfast City Centre | |
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Central Business District | |
Location within Northern Ireland | |
Irish grid reference | J338740 |
District | |
Country | Northern Ireland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | BELFAST |
Postcode district | BT? |
Dialling code | 028 |
Police | Northern Ireland |
Fire | Northern Ireland |
Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
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The city centre was originally centred on the Donegall Street area. Donegall Street is now mainly a business area, but with expanding residential and entertainment development as part of the Cathedral Quarter scheme - St. Anne's, Belfast's Anglican cathedral is located here. The Roman Catholic cathedral St. Peter's is located a little to the west of the city centre.
Two of Belfast's three main newspapers - The Belfast Telegraph and The Irish News are also located nearby. The News Letter, which claims to be the oldest continually published English language daily newspaper still in existence, was originally located in the area at 55 Donegall Street, site of a massive Provisional IRA carbomb in March 1972, in which seven people died and 148 were injured.
The city centre is now centred on Donegall Square (location of the City Hall), Donegall Place, Royal Avenue, Castle Junction, High Street and surrounding streets and alleys.