Where is Royal Avenue?

Royal Avenue is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6007°, -5.9309°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Royal Avenue

Royal Avenue in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Royal Avenue is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Royal Avenue is a street in the heart of Belfast city centre, Northern Ireland. It runs for about 500 metres from the junction with Castle Place and Donegall Place to the junction with Donegall Street. It lies between the Cathedral Quarter and the Smithfield and Union Quarter of the city. It has been the city's principal shopping thoroughfare since its establishment in 1881. Today Royal Avenue is one of Belfast's main commercial centres and is home to the £40 million shopping complex CastleCourt.

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History

The upper part was formerly named John Street, and the lower part was named Hercules Street after Sir Hercules Langford. Since that time, it has served as Belfast's principal shopping thoroughfare, and today it is lined with many leading department stores and top name shops. The city's most prestigious and elegant hotel, the Grand Central Hotel, was on the street before it was demolished in the late 1980s to make room for the £40 million shopping complex, Westfield CastleCourt. A year after the hotel closed down in 1971, it was converted into a fortified military barracks serving as battalion headquarters for regiments in the British Army that were based in Belfast city centre. The former…

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