Monday, November 15, 2010

EAST COAST:

Chicago: On the shores of Lake Michigan, one of the five major inland lakes. modern city where buildings stand out as legendary Palmer House Hotel or the Sears Tower impressive from whose vantage point on the floor 103 is get the best views of the city.

Boston (MA): Founded in 1630, is one of the oldest cities in the United States. A city of brick buildings and cobblestone streets in town, and tall skyscrapers and modern infrastructure in its financial district. Highlights: Boston Common, the oldest public park in North America, Old Meeting House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere's house or Bunker Hill. Beacon Hill, with its cobbled streets and grand mansions built in the first half of the nineteenth century.

New York: The city sits on the land surrounding the estuary of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island and Staten Island, Western Long Island and a small portion of the continent. Highlights: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Times Square , Empire State Building, the most famous building in the city (between Fifth Avenue and Calle 34), Central Park, an oasis within the city. Next to Central Park, are the major museums like the Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.

Wall Street financial district, the Stock Exchange, Battery Park (departure point for ferries to Liberty Island with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, former Customs for migrants coming to New York in the early twentieth century .). Brooklyn Bridge.

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): On the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Founded in 1682 by William Penn, became the Athens of America Colonial. Until the early nineteenth century was the most important and refined city of Anglo-Saxon America, and also the richest, thanks to its geographical location. Highlights: Indenpendence Hall, modest red-brick building, where they signed the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, the Liberty Bell in the Tower Room in its original pedestal. The House of Edgar Allen Poe.

Washington, DC: Federal Capital and the District of Columbia, located near the mouth of the Potomac River in the Chesapeake Bay, southeast of Baltimore.'s seat of government of the United States since 1800.
Include: the Capitol, White House, Arlington Cemetery across the Potomac River. The Monuments: Washington, a marble obelisk over 170 meters high, Lincoln, inspired by Greek temples, contains an impressive marble statue, Jefferson, a circular marble building inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, stands on the banks of a lake, the Tidal Basin, surrounded by Japanese cherry trees. The Memorial to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a black granite wall in memory of those killed in the Vietnam War. Old Stone House, the oldest house in Washington. Smithsonian Castle, the Norman-style building and headquarters of the Smithsonian Institute.

Mount Vernon (Virginia): South of Washington, home and tomb of George Washington.

Alexandria: Old Town with its cobblestone streets, restored houses of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its boardwalk, is a vivid reminder of our colonial and revolutionary.

Miami (Florida): On the southeast coast of Florida, at the mouth of the Miami River at Biscayne Bay, with its great beaches, lively nightlife ... is the most exciting cities. Stresses Miami Beach South Beach, an area with Art Deco style buildings.

Is the starting point to visit the theme park Walt Disney World in Orlando , the PN of the Everglades, a complex ecosystem of wetlands, beaches like Palm Beach, or the lovely South Florida Keys, with its islands connected by road No. 1, places like Key Largo or Key West.

St. Augustine (Florida): It is the oldest European settlement in the United States. Founded by the Spanish Admiral Pedro Mendez de Aviles in 1565, has historic buildings and forts.

Tampa (Florida): Located on the West Coast of Florida, Tampa Bay at the mouth of the Hillsborough River, is linked to Saint Petersburg, across the bay via the Gandy Bridge 24 km in length. Busch Gardens, an amusement park with one of the best zoos in the country, Ybor City, a reminder of Latino heritage.

New Orleans (Louisiana): On the banks of the Mississippi River, 110 km from the Gulf of Mexico, was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville to residence of the governor and the archbishop of Louisiana. Ceded to Spain in 1762, acquired a Spanish strong character. In 1803, France turned to hold the domain of Louisiana, sold to the United States. Highlights: Bourbon Street with its jazz clubs, the French Quarter or Vieux Carré, the Cathedral of St. Louis King of France, the oldest Catholic cathedral United States. Jardines de Saint-Anthony.

Louisiana Bayou interesting cruise the Mississippi aboard the Mark Twain wheel to visit the old cotton plantations.

WEST COAST:

Las Vegas (Nevada): Located in the southern part of the state in a wide desert valley surrounded by barren mountains, with its opulent hotels and casinos, is the dazzling capital of fun and play.

Reno (Nevada): Located along the Truckee River in the southwest of the state, a small town with hotels and casinos. Interesting Cruise on Lake Tahoe to Emerald Bay and travel around the lake with a stop in Virginia City to the ranch's Ponderosa, the scene of the TV series Bonanza.

Los Angeles (California): Founded by the Franciscans, after recognition of the area by Gaspar de Portola in 1769, with the name of Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula (Felipe de Neve, 1781), since 1839 the capital was California until, in 1846, was conquered by the United States. Starting point to visit Universal Studios in North Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Sunset Street and Grauman's Chinese Theater where movie stars stamped their footprints in cement. Disneyland in Anaheim, about 40 km further south.

Monterrey (California): Old Customs Building, now the Museum, and Casa de Adobe to Robert Louis Stevenson.

Caramel: Lovely on the Pacific population is the point of departure for Del Monte Forest road from the famous Seventeen Mile Drive to Big Sur, a scenic route along the rugged coastline. State Park Hearst-San Simeon, which was owned and fabulous mansion of the famous billionaire William Randolph Hearst. The Franciscan Mission.

Numerous missions founded by Franciscan Friar Junipero Serra, punctuate the coast of California: San Luis, San Diego , San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara, etc.

San Francisco (California): In a large and beautiful bay open to the Pacific through the Golden Gate, situated in a rugged, is a picturesque town with its steep streets and its typical trams.

Founded in 1776 by the Spanish Juan Bautista de Anza, a mission of the Franciscan order, which called Yerba Buena. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, came from Mexico to the United States that the renamed with its current name. Highlights:
Lombard Street, a picturesque winding street, Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, Chinatown, the largest Eastern community, Ghirardelli Square, The Cannery, Fisherman's Wharf, an old fishing pier, and swanky become the starting point for the ferries to Alcatraz Island or Sausalito. Golden Gate Bridge, the famous suspension bridge in the world, the Golden Gate Park. Mission Dolores, one of the many missions founded by the Franciscans.

Further north, across the bay through the Golden Gate Bridge, Muir Forest with its giant pines.

Seattle (Washington): Next to the Puget Sound on the Pacific coast, is the largest population and the main port in the Northwestern United States. The Pacific Science Center, the Space Needle, a tower from which you get wonderful views of the city and the bay.

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