Columbus is the capital of Ohio and its largest city .The population of Columbus exceeds 800 thousand .human.In 2012, .The city was included BusinessWeek in the top 50 cities in America, and Forbes magazine put it on the list of the best cities for business .Perhaps Columbus can not be called a particularly bright city from a historical or cultural point of view: there are no such outstanding buildings and attractions that make travelers reflexively uncover cameras .In its old districts it's nice to just walk for no other purpose than to drink a cup of coffee or lazily look at the river from the embankment .
How to get to Columbus
Columbus International Airport accepts flights from all major airlines from most major cities. In addition, there are buses "Greyhound" and "Megabas" (the latter - from Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago).
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Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Columbus
Downtown business life is natural, downtown, and here are significant attractions: the government building, built in the 1840-1860's .in the style of the Greek Renaissance, the Museum of Art, Franklin University, the Columbus-Commons Garden .Among them is the LeVec Tower, a 47-story Art Deco building on West Broad Street .From 1927 to 1974 .the tower almost 170 m remained the tallest building in the city: at the time between Chicago and New York there was a competition for the maximum height of skyscrapers, and LeVek ambitiously blended into it, becoming the fifth largest building in the world .From the bottom it is difficult to see, but the upper floors of the tower are decorated with stylish reliefs .There were even more, but the terracotta was showered on the street, and some of the sculptures were removed - including five-meter eagles at the corners of the building .
- See a copy of the Columbus ship "Santa Maria" on the river in downtown.
- Take a picture of James Barney's Children's Fountain near Bettel Park with bronze sculptures of wonderful mythical animals.
- Walk south along the High Street, admiring the old buildings - in particular, the famous hotel and the Great Southern Theater (1897) on the corner from Main Street.
- Go see the prehistoric Indian mounds, which are more than 2000 years old. The most interesting can be traveled along a circular route, leaving the city to the south by U.S. 23.
Short North, which is around High Street between downtown and Ohio State, is the main cultural and entertainment district of the city. Dozens of art galleries, shops and restaurants are located here. On the evening of the first Saturday of every month, all the galleries and museums remain open until late, attracting thousands of visitors, and on July 4, a cheerful costume parade "DuDa" takes place at Short North. There are many hotels, apartments, microbreweries and distilleries.
The German village, loved not only by tourists, but also by local people, is a quiet and picturesque historic area with cobbled streets planted with trees, with pretty bungalows and chic Italian-style mansions .Here you can find pubs, bars, bakeries and shops for every taste, and here is the traditional Oktoberfest .The quarter is south of the downtown and east of High Street .In the heart of the district is the Schiller Park, a great place to relax with an open-air theater around which Victorian houses are built .
Beautiful and Gothic church of St. Mary, built in 1893 and decorated with a high spire. Another similar in spirit area is Harrison-West, which is north of downtown. In the eastern part of it is a Victorian village, an old quarter with charming little houses.
Old Oaks - the most untouched area of the city, where the buildings of the turn of the 19 th and 20 th centuries were preserved. Here lived the representatives of the middle and upper class, and until now you can see mansions in the style of Queen Anne and neoclassical Renaissance. Particularly noteworthy is the Catholic Church of St. John, built in 1898, - a recognizable Gothic structure with elaborately constructed towers.
Visible and recognizable arched bridge Main Street more than 200 m in length with three spans, thrown over the river Szioto. Built in 1937, it became a bright symbol of the city, but the weather and traffic so spoiled the construction that in 2002 the bridge was closed, completely rebuilt and opened for traffic only in 2010. Noteworthy is the cable-stayed bridge Lane Avenue in the University District , over the Olentanga River. His photograph in the night illumination is one of the iconic views of the city.
Impressive and great Columbus Zoo, divided into several zones: North American, Asian, coastline, African forest and Australian .The zoo is organized in such a way that a lot of animal visitors can see almost at arm's length: red pandas, koalas, kangaroos, Amur tigers, penguins Humboldt .A greenhouse and a botanical garden in Franklin Park are famous for their stunning landscape design and a collection of more than 400 plant species .Particularly pleasant will be a visit to the garden of orchids from January to March .
The park of Topiari is notable for its green sculptures, created on the basis of drawings of George Sere. In the early 1990s. This park was decorated with 54 figures of people, many boats, dogs, a cat and a monkey.
Columbus Museums
The Columbus Art Museum was opened in 1931, and his collection focuses on European and American art right up to the period of modernism. In the museum's expositions one can see the outstanding works of Impressionist artists, German Expressionists and Cubists, including Monet and Picasso masterpieces. Wexner Gallery of Modern Art is located on the campus of Ohio State University.
The large COSI science museum stands on the west bank of the river, and in 2009 .Parents magazine brought him to the top 10 family scientific museums in the country .The little-known, but rather curious Catholic Yubilee Museum on South Grapp Street is dedicated to the sacred art: here you can see beautiful sculptures, stained-glass windows and paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries .Of particular interest is the museum and garden of Kelton House, dedicated to the Victorian era .The mansion was built in 1852 ., served three generations of the Kelton family and was one of the stations of the "Underground Railway" (that is, a network of secret routes and safe houses for runaway slaves heading to the free states and Canada) .
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Columbus Events
The Asian Festival takes place every May in Franklin Park .Here, of course, full of eastern food and products .The Columbus Art Festival will take place on the embankment in June, this is a major event with exhibitions, workshops, music and entertainment .In the downtown, the river hosts the annual July fest "Jazz and Rib", and it usually gathers more than half a million viewers .And in the middle of June there is also a Latin fest .In addition, in June the bars of the trendy North Market district are hosting the Park Street festival, which attracts thousands of spectators, hosting one global party .The restaurant week passes in the middle of July and in the middle of January, and on the weekend for Father's Day Franklin Park hosts the largest three-day festival of African American culture in the States .