The properties at 827-829 and 831 Broadway are best known for housing Parisian-style club La Belle Epoque on the second floor until the mid-2000s. Antiques mogul and designer Howard Kaplan owned ...

To get in to the spirit, I headed over to the town costume-hire shop, the aptly named Belle Epoque Clothing, to change into some vintage attire. It's not compulsory to dress up, but it is good fun.

La Belle Époque was a time of beauty, peace and stability - and extravagant fashion, as an exhibition in the Ulster Museum will reveal. By Claire O'Boyle. Claire O'Boyle.

Weave between late-19th-century monuments on urban walking tours to learn about this defining era — and why it’s gilded with such intense nostalgia.