ST. PATRICK’S FESTIVAL 2015
MAJOR LANDMARKS AND ICONIC SITES AROUND THE WORLD JOINING TOURISM IRELAND’S GLOBAL GREENING FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY 2015
Note: first time ‘greenings’ marked *
Great Britain
United States
Note: first time ‘greenings’ marked *
Great Britain
- London Eye
- Nelson's Column, London
- Town Hall clock, Manchester
- ‘Armadillo’ (SECC), Glasgow
- The SSE Hydro, Glasgow
United States
- Grand Ole Opry (the show that made country music famous!), Nashville *
- John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, Nashville *
- 'Welcome' sign, Las Vegas
- Empire State Building, New York
- GREENing of Chicago
- - United Center (home of the Chicago Bulls) *
- - Block Thirty Seven (shopping mall) *
- - Macy’s *
- - Navy Pier
- - John Hancock Center
- - Old St Patrick’s Church
- - Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower
- - Trump International Hotel & Tower
- - Wrigley Building
- - Chicago Board of Trade
- - Novak Construction *
- - State Street
- City Hall, Houston
- Niagara Falls (on both the Canadian and US sides)
- Whistler, Canada’s famous ski resort in British Columbia
- City Hall, Toronto
- Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa
- Cabot Tower on Signal Hill, St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Austria
- Burgtheater (City Hall), Vienna
- Wiener Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel in the Prater Amusement Park), Vienna
- Skiwelt Söll (ski resort)
- Kaprun Castle, Zell-am-See region
- Belgium
- Manneken Pis statue, Brussels (“dressed” in Irish costume)
- France
- Sacré-Cœur Basilica, Paris *
- Sleeping Beauty castle at Disneyland® Paris
- Porte de Bourgogne, Bordeaux *
- Irish Embassy, Paris
- Irish Cultural Centre, Paris *
- Publicis landmark building on the Champs Elysées, Paris *
- Georgia
- City Hall, Tbilisi
- Germany
- Allianz Arena, Munich
- Town Hall, Munich *
- Odeonsplatz, Munich
- Olympic Tower, Munich
- Town Hall, Bamberg *
- English language school, Bamberg *
- ‘Lighthouse’ building, Düsseldorf
- Neumünster church (built over the tomb of St Kilian), Würzburg
- Town Hall, Würzburg
- Irish pubs network
- Italy
- Colosseum, Rome *
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Monaco
- Prince's Palace
- the Netherlands
- 'I Amsterdam' sign (in front of Rijksmuseum), Amsterdam*
- Norway
- Fram polar exploration ship, Oslo *
- Portugal
- National Sanctuary of Cristo Rei (Christ the King statue), Lisbon *
- Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães, Caiscais
- Serbia
- Ada Bridge, Belgrade*
- Slovenia
- Ljubljana Castle
- Philharmonic Hall, Slovenia *
- Spain
- Cibeles Fountain and Palace, Madrid
- Tower of Hércules (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Galicia
- Sweden
- Ericsson Globe (national indoor arena), Stockholm*
- Switzerland
- Rhine Falls, near Zurich
- Town Hall, Sydney *
- Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
- Sky Tower, Auckland
- Auckland War Memorial Museum *
- Christ the Redeemer statue, Brazil
- Pudong Shangri-La Hotel old and new towers, Shanhai, China
- Jumeirah Etihad Towers hotel, Abu Dhabi *
- Burj Al Arab hotel, Dubai