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Prof Michael Burton, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium director

Historic observatories unite in bid to obtain global heritage status

Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa overlooking the Marne Valley vineyards

Review: France’s award-winning Champagne hotel escape

Soprono Petra Wells

Belfast’s Streets Come Alive with Music This December

L-R Stevie Maginn, LQ BID, Oisín McCann, Belfast TradFest

LQ BID tunes into Belfast's cultural beat with Make Music Day and Tadfest

Taste of Ulster plaque – signposting quality food and a commitment to local sourcing.

Taste of Ulster plaques are issued annually

A Christmas market

Must-see undiscovered festive markets just a ferry ride away

Krakow Castle

Jet2CityBreaks expands Discover More range to Krakow

Paul Price from DfC’s Historic Environment Division (left), Ulster Aviation Society chairman Ray Burrows MBE (centre) and Communities Minister Gordon Lyons launch this year’s European Heritage Open Days

NI Regional War Room is among a host of historic sites set to open to the public

Verbier and the Val de Bagnes in the summer. Credit: Lucia Harrison/Verbier Tourisme

Dodge the Verbier crowds and visit in the summer for great gastronomy

Gracehill in Co Antrim. Photo by Google

Gracehill honoured with Unesco world heritage status

Going Green: Trees helping breath new life into the world

View the Old Town from Gediminas Hill

Vilnius city guide: What to do in Lithuania’s quaint capital

Work has now started chainsawing the felled tree into sections for its removal (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Breaking Beloved Sycamore Gap tree to be cut up and removed from site

It is hoped that the Mourne Gullion Strangford Unesco Geopark will become a major draw for tourists wanting to experience the outstanding natural beauty of the area

The beauty of Mournes, Strangford and Gullion gets Unesco seal of approval

The gold aureus celebrating the conquest in AD 43 was uncovered among the ruins of a suburb five kilometres north of the archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region.

Roman coin plucked from ashes of Pompeii sells for thousands

Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast City Council Councillor Michelle Kelly is pictured at the launch of Belfast Learning Festival at City Hall with Chair of Belfast Learning City Danny Power and Anita Rankin from Magpies Ladies’ Garden who will participate in the week-long programme of events

Learn to crochet, knit or code at Belfast Festival of Learning
There will be a week-long programme of free interactive and engaging events
Joanne Savage

World Book Day 2023 is coming - everything you need to know

World Book Day is on March 2

World Book Day is on the way!

Gracehill Moravian Church in Co Antrim. A bid to list the preserved Moravian site as Northern Ireland's first cultural world heritage site has been launched. If successful, Gracehill would be elevated to a status alongside the likes of the Taj Mahal and Great Wall of China

Bid to list Moravian settlement as cultural world heritage site

Brendan Carty at Killowen Distillery. A founder of Ireland's smallest distillery hopes recognition by Unesco can make the area a "magnet" for tourists in the coming year.

Owner of Killowen Distillery hoping for visitor boost thanks to geopark

Dr Mike Simms, curator of natural sciences at National Museums NI, who has developed a new theory around Northern Ireland's world famous Giant's Causeway

New theory over Giant’s Causeway

Academics have called for end to 'Christian focussed' RE and daily worship in Northern Ireland schools.

Academics call for end to 'Christian' RE and daily worship in schools

Adult Learning Week to Improve academic skills

Northern Irish singer, songwriter, guitarist and lead singer of Snowpatrol Gary Lightbody.

Photo by Matt Mackey / Press Eye

Belfast awarded City of Music status by Unesco

This is how to claim and use your £1 World Book Day voucher (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to claim and use your £1 World Book Day voucher

This is the theme for World Book Day 2021 - and costume ideas for lockdown

Ironbridge Gorge was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986. (Picture: Shutterstock)

You could buy a world heritage site bungalow for just £1 - but there's a catch Jon Ball

International Day of Friendship is an annual event which celebrates human solidarity through friendship (Photo: Shutterstock)

Today is International Day of Friendship - here’s how you can celebrate

7 of the best online learning resources for kids - from YouTube Learn@Home to Go...

Every child is entitled to a free voucher for World Book Day - here's how to cla...

McDonald’s Happy Meals traditionally always include a toy, but in preparation for World Book Day 2020, the fast food chain will be adding book tokens to every Happy Meal (Photo: Shutterstock)

McDonald’s is giving out free book tokens in Happy Meals - here’s how to redeem ...

World Book Day is an annual event which celebrates the uniting love of books around the world and sees people dress up as characters from their favourite reads (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is the date of World Book Day 2020 - and the best costume ideas

You could be fined €250 for sitting on the Spanish Steps in Rome - here’s why

Panoramic view of Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Giant's Causeway 30 years of UNESCO status

The concentration camps were not Polish, they were run by the Nazis

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