{"id":11405,"date":"2016-05-10T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=11405"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:03:41","slug":"tourism-ireland-unveils-third-game-of-thrones%c2%ae-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/05\/tourism-ireland-unveils-third-game-of-thrones%c2%ae-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Ireland unveils third Game of Thrones\u00ae door"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n<strong>~ Tourism Ireland\u2019s 2016 Game of Thrones<\/strong>\u00ae<strong> <\/strong><strong>campaign is showcasing Northern Ireland to millions of fans worldwide ~<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Episode three of the sixth season of Game of Thrones\u00ae aired last night (Monday, 9 May) and Tourism Ireland unveiled its third \u2018Door of Thrones\u2019 \u2013 this week in the Percy French Restaurant in the grounds of the Slieve Donard Hotel in Newcastle, Co Down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PicMonkey-Collage5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11406\" title=\"PicMonkey Collage\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PicMonkey-Collage5-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>The door is part of Tourism Ireland\u2019s 2016 Game of Thrones\u00ae campaign, created in partnership with HBO, which is showcasing Northern Ireland to millions of the show\u2019s fans worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation is encouraging fans everywhere to come and <strong><em>\u201cw<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>itness where it all began in Winterfell at Castle Ward, enter the grasslands of Vaes Dothrak in the Mourne Mountains, or dare to march in the footsteps of a White Walker in Tollymore Forest.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Dark Hedges \u2013 the Game of Thrones\u00ae filming location known to the people of Westeros as the Kingsroad \u2013 were battered by Storm Gertrude. Tourism Ireland saved the trees that fell that day, to turn them into a piece of Game of Thrones\u00ae history for fans \u2013 creating 10 intricately carved doors, each one telling the story of the latest episode in season six.<\/p>\n<p>The doors are being unveiled by Tourism Ireland each week as season six unfolds, in restaurants, pubs and other venues near Game of Thrones\u00ae filming locations across Northern Ireland \u2013 so, by the end of this season, we\u2019ll have a brand new Game of Thrones\u00ae trail linking the major filming locations around Northern Ireland. The first door (from episode one) is hanging in The Cuan guest inn in Strangford \u2013 near the filming locations of Castle Ward and Audley\u2019s Castle. The second door is hanging in Fiddlers Green in Portaferry, near Quintin Bay. This week\u2019s door, in the Percy French restaurant, is near Tollymore Forest Park.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism Ireland has also unveiled its third \u2013 limited edition \u2013 Game of Thrones\u00ae stamp, another element of its campaign.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Tourism Ireland\u2019s 2016 Game of Thrones\u00ae campaign is showcasing Northern Ireland to millions of fans worldwide ~ Episode three of the sixth season of Game of Thrones\u00ae aired last night (Monday, 9 May) and Tourism Ireland unveiled its third \u2018Door of Thrones\u2019 \u2013 this week in the Percy French Restaurant in the grounds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2016\/05\/tourism-ireland-unveils-third-game-of-thrones%c2%ae-door\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}