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05th Sep 2016

Titanic Belfast has been named as Europe’s leading tourist attraction

Conor Heneghan

Well deserved.

Titanic Belfast has been named as Europe’s leading tourist attraction at the prestigious World Travel Awards in Sardinia.

It is the second year in a row that a tourist attraction on the island of Ireland has been given such a prestigious honour after the Guinness Storehouse – which was nominated once again this year – won the award in 2015.

As well as the Guinness Storehouse, Titanic Belfast fought off competition from iconic landmarks throughout the continent such as the Acropolis in Greece, Buckingham Palace in London, La Sagrada Familia in Spain, Ribeira do Porto in Portugal, the Colosseum in Rome and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

The world’s largest Titanic visitor experience, Titanic Belfast, located on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, pulled in over 600,000 visitors in 2015.

For more information on Europe’s premier attraction, check out the Titanic Belfast website.

Main image via Facebook/Titanic Belfast

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Belfast,Travel