Visitors to Belfast can now follow in the footsteps of the man who wrote The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
A new series of tours celebrate the city’s link to Clive Staples Lewis.
The Belfast-born novelist became world famous for his Chronicles of Narnia where the forces of good and evil – embodied by Aslan the lion and the White Witch – battle it out for control of an enchanted land.
A statue was unveiled in Belfast in 1998, the centenary of Lewis’ birth.
The story of what happens when four children clamber through an old wardrobe, push their way past heavy coats and stumble into a snowy imaginary land has captured the imagination of generations of young people.
CS Lewis was born in Ballyhackamore, east Belfast in 1898 and spent his formative years in the city.
He left for boarding school in England in his early teens after his mother died, and spent much of his adult life as an academic in Oxford, depicted by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the 1993 biopic Shadowlands.