If you approach Pittsburgh from the airport, you will pass through a long tunnel beneath Mount Washington. As soon as you exit the tunnel, you will be on a bridge crossing the Monongahela River. The point at the confluence of the two rivers and the Golden Triangle with its gleaming array of tall buildings forms a spectacular panorama immediately before you. This sudden vista is breathtaking.

Pittsburgh is often called “the Steel City” as it was once the major iron and steel manufacturing center for the United States of America. During the first half of the twentieth century, the three river valleys were crowded with numerous steel mills and foundries. The air was constantly filled with smoke and the rivers were seething with industrial waste. The surrounding farmlands were dotted with mine shafts and great mountainous slate dumps. Trains and river barges incessantly shuttled immense quantities of coal, minerals and finished steel up and down the valleys.

There are great dining opportunities throughout the Pittsburgh area. The South Side, the Strip District and the Waterfront have great selections of good restaurants as well as some nice bars and entertainment spots. The top of Mount Washington features a variety of fine restaurants with spectacular views overlooking the city. For a real Pittsburgh specialty, stop in one of the Primanti Brothers restaurants for their world-famous cheese steak sandwich. Their singular concoction features a steak-cheese burger piled high with French fried potatoes and cole slaw served between two thick slabs of fresh Italian bread. This meal-on-a-sandwich is hard to get your hands around, but it tastes great.

Today, it is hard to believe that Pittsburgh was once such an industrial giant. The steel mills are gone. The air is clean, and the river waters are pure. Pittsburgh has evolved into a beautiful, modern city with many attractions. It is now a center of technological industry with prestigious institutions of higher learning and medical research. It offers many cultural attractions, entertainment venues and sports events. It has become a very nice place to live or to work.

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The most popular tourist attraction and the symbol most identified with Philadelphia is the Liberty Bell. A new Liberty Bell Center features several exhibits on freedoms including slavery, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement. Independence Hall, also known as the birthplace of our nation, is the place where discussions of freedom and liberty began. It is where Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 and the Constitution of the United States was written in 1787. Tours are given every day and printed guides are available in eight different languages.

William Penn, an English Quaker, founded Philadelphia in 1682 on land purchased from the King of England. You can arrive via Philadelphia International Airport only eight miles from downtown or by Amtrak which takes you into the middle of the city at 30th Street Station. SEPTA is the public transportation service within the city which can get you anywhere you need to go.

If you like shopping malls, Philadelphia has several. The Gallery is the largest city mall in the U.S. with more than 120 shops. The Shops at Liberty Place holds more than 60 stores and restaurants and is in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. Outside of the city you’ll find King of Prussia Mall, the largest retail complex in the country with eight department stores and more than 365 retailers. Also outside the city, Franklin Mills has more than 150 outlet stores for bargain and discount lovers. The town of Reading Pennsylvania, just 65 miles (100 km) northwest of Philadelphia, is known as outlet city because it has over 90 factory outlet stores.

Because of its prime location along the East coast, Philadelphia quickly became the cultural center of the New World. With a rich history, “The City of Firsts” is considered the birthplace of American democracy and the home of the American Revolution. Before Washington, D.C., Philadelphia was the nation’s capital form 1791 to 1800. Today it is a major metropolitan business, cultural and tourist attraction.

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