Top 11 Beautiful Places to Visit in Baltimore

 1. Inner Harbor

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The Inner Harbor is a historic harbor, tourist attraction, and landmark in Baltimore, Maryland. It was described by the Urban Land Institute in 2009 as "the model for post-industrial waterfront redevelopment around the world". Inner Harbor is located at the mouth of Jones Falls, which forms the broad and short Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River. The district includes any water west of a line drawn between the foot of President Street and the American Museum of Fine Arts.

The name "Inner Harbor" is used not only for the water but also for the surrounding area of ​​the city, with street boundaries near President Street to the east, Lombard Street to the north, Green Street to the west, and the main highway. Southern. The Harbor is within walking distance of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. A water taxi connects passengers to Fells Point, Canton and Fort McHenry.

2. Federal Hill Park

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Federal Hill Park is a 10.3-acre park located in Baltimore, Maryland, on the south shore of the Inner Harbor. The park is a Baltimore landmark and offers visitors one of the city's most iconic views, the oft-photographed skyline to the north across the Inner Harbor (formerly known as the "Basin") on the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River. / Port of Baltimore. Named for the prominent hills to the west and south around Federal Hill, it is also known as Old South Baltimore. The now graded grassy hill and park, originally made of jagged rocks and red clay, were excavated in the 18th and 19th centuries and described by English Captain John Smith after first seeing it on his voyage of exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. was First English colony in Jamestown, Virginia in 1608.

Today's landmark site is bounded by Francis Scott Key Highway (Key Highway / Maryland Route 2) along the waterfront to the north, Battery Avenue to the west, Warren Avenue to the south, and Covington Street to the east. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Union Army took over the city of Baltimore as public property in 1880 after it was fortified and used as a fort with heavy artillery (Fort Federal Hill). It was established as a city park operated and maintained by the then city Recreation and Parks Department.

3. Fell's Point

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Fells Point is a historic waterfront neighborhood in southeast Baltimore, Maryland, established in 1763 on the north shore of Baltimore Harbor and the northwest branch of the Patapsco River. Located 1.5 miles east of Baltimore's central business district, Fells Point is known for its maritime history and nature. The neighborhood has antique, music and other shops, restaurants, coffee shops, an urban market with individual stalls and over 120 pubs.

Throughout its 250-year history, Fells Point has hosted large immigrant communities, including the Irish, Germans, Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Czechs, and Slovaks. Since the 1970s, middle- to upper-middle-income residents have increasingly adopted the area, renovating and preserving historic homes and businesses. Sometimes called "Spanish Town" now, Upper Fells Point north along Broadway has gained a significant Latino community, mainly Mexican and Central American immigrants, mostly since the 1980s.

The Fells Point waterfront is an upscale residential area and tourist destination with first-class hotels and restaurants. A short walk from the inner harbor, the neighborhood can be reached by foot, water taxi barge, bus or car. It is one of the few areas in and around Baltimore listed on the National Register of Historic Places, (maintained by the National Park Service), first named from Maryland, and one of the first registered historic districts in the United States to combine two. Separate waterfront communities (across the Patapsco River to the southwest with Federal Hill and the harbor at "Whitstone Point" on the "Old South Baltimore" peninsula of Fort McHenry).

4. Baltimore Museum of Art

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The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland is an art museum founded in 1914. The BMA's 95,000 objects[1] include more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of Modern Art. One of the nation's finest collections of prints, drawings and photographs. The galleries currently showcase the Art of Africa collection; works by established and emerging contemporary artists; European and American paintings, sculptures and decorative arts; Mosaics of Ancient Antioch; Art from Asia and textiles from around the world.

The 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m) museum features a neoclassical building designed by American architect John Russell Pope in the 1920s and two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculptures. The museum is located between Charles Village, to the east, Remington, to the south, Hampden, to the west; The museum is an independent institution and not affiliated with the university, but is immediately adjacent to Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus and south of the Rowland Park neighborhood.

The museum's specialty is the collection of cones collected by Baltimore sisters Claribelle (1864-1929) and Etta Cohn (1870-1949). Accomplished collectors, the sisters collected works by artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, almost all of which were donated to the museum. The museum is also home to the George A. Lucas Collection of 18,000 works of mid-19th-century French art, hailed by the museum as a cultural "treasure" and "among the largest single collections of French art in the country. ."

The BMA is currently led by Dr. By Asma Naeem, she was appointed by the Board of Trustees in January 2023 after a 10-month international search. She joined the BMA in 2018 as the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curator and previously held curatorial positions at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She holds a B.A. in Art History and Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, a Juris Doctor from Temple University, an MA in Art History from American University, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Maryland. Naim is the first person of color and the first person raised in Baltimore to lead the museum.

Since October 2006, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum (formerly the Walters Art Gallery) have offered free general admission year-round, thanks to grants from Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and several foundations. The museum is also the location of "Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen," a popular restaurant owned and operated by Chef John Shields.

5. Patterson Park

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Patterson Park is an urban park in Southeast Baltimore, Maryland, United States, adjacent to the neighborhoods of Canton, Highlandtown, Patterson Park, and Butcher's Hill. It is bordered by East Baltimore Street, Eastern Avenue, South Patterson Park Avenue and South Linwood Avenue. The Patterson Park Extension is located east of Main Park and is bordered by East Pratt Street, South Ellwood Avenue, and East Avenue.

Patterson Park was established in 1827 and named for William Patterson (1752-1835). The park features open lawns, large trees, sidewalks, historical battle sites, a lake, playgrounds, athletic fields, a swimming pool, an ice skating rink and other signature attractions and buildings. At 137 acres (0.55 km2), Patterson Park is not the largest park in the city; However, it is nicknamed "Baltimore's Best Garden".

6. Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

Fort McHenry is a historic American coastal Pentagon fort located at Locust Point, now a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from a British naval attack from the Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.

The fort was built in 1798 and continued to be used by the United States Armed Forces during World War I and by the United States Coast Guard during World War II. It was designated a national park in 1925, and a US national monument in 1939. During the War of 1812, an American storm flag, 17 by 25 feet (5.2 × 7.6 m), was flown during the British bombardment over Fort McHenry. The flag was replaced on the morning of September 14, 1814, with a larger 30 x 42 ft (9.1 x 12.8 m) American flag. The large flag signified the American victory over the British at the Battle of Baltimore.

Seeing the flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was later set to music by the song "To Anacreon in Heaven", which was later renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner". ", the national anthem of the United States.

7. Cylburn Arboretum

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Cylburn Arboretum [pronounced Sill·burn arr·burr·EE·tum] is a city park with trees and gardens, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. It is open every day - except Monday - free of charge.

The arboretum began as the private estate of businessman Jesse Tyson, who began construction of Cylburn Mansion in 1863. Designed by Baltimore City Hall architect George Aloysius Frederick, the house was finally completed in 1888 and remains intact. Tyson's Quarries at Bear Hills with a mansard roof, tower and Italianate cupola. It became the Cylburn Wildflower Preserve and Garden Center in 1954, and was renamed the Cylburn Arboretum Association in 1982. Cylburn Mansion's watercolor paintings of Maryland wildflowers are open to the public.

Today the Arboretum contains a large collection of trees and woody shrubs based loosely on Tyson's original plantings. The collection includes azaleas, bamboo, beeches, boxwoods, chestnuts, conifers, hollies, Japanese maples, magnolias, maples, Maryland oaks and viburnum. The Arboretum includes a number of flower and vegetable gardens as well as greenhouses designed and built by Lord & Burnham in the 1960s. The greenhouses grow plants for the city's parks and are not open to the general public. The Arboretum is included in the Baltimore National Heritage Area. It was used as a filming location for "Final Grades", a 2006 episode of The Wire in which Bodie Broadus and Jimmy McNulty have a conversation in the park.

8. Mount Vernon Place

The Baltimore City Planning Commission defines the neighborhood as Eager Street to the north, Jones Falls Expressway to the east, Franklin Street to the south, and Euto Street to the west. Immediately to the north is the mid-town Belvedere neighborhood, named for John Eager Howard's Belvedere estate, and the two are sometimes considered one neighborhood. The Light Rail Link line runs along Howard Street on the west side of Mount Vernon, and the Metro subway line runs underneath Utto Street. Penn Station, served by Amtrak and MARC commuter trains, is located north of Mid-Town Belvedere.

Although primarily residential, Mount Vernon-Belvedere is home to several institutions, including Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory, Walters Art Museum, University of Baltimore, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Maryland Institute of Art College, and the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony. Hall, the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Lyric Opera House, Center Stage, the Central Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Spotlights Theater, the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute, and the former Peabody Bookstore and Beer Stub. In the 1970s, Mount Vernon became Baltimore's premier gay community. The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Baltimore, now known as the Pride Center of Maryland, was established in Mount Vernon in 1977.

9. Sherwood Park

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Sherwood Park is a 6-acre (24,000 m) park in the Guilford neighborhood of North Baltimore, Maryland. The park is bounded by East Highfield, Underwood, Stratford and Greenway roads. In addition to the well-manicured, standard ground cover (azaleas, evergreens, etc...), Sherwood Gardens is known for its nearly 80,000 tulips in late April. After the tulips have finished blooming, the Tulip Dig takes place every year on the Saturday of Memorial Day. Anyone can dig and buy tulip bulbs. The park is owned by Stratford Green, Inc., a 501(c)3 organization Maintained and managed by.

10. Druid Hill Park

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Druid Hill Park is a 745-acre (3.01 km2) urban park in northwest Baltimore, Maryland. Its boundaries are marked by Druid Park Drive (north), Swann Drive and Reisterstown Road (west and south) and Jones Falls Expressway / Interstate 83 (east).

Founded in 1860 under the administration of Mayor Thomas Swan, Druid Hill Park is the oldest landscaped public park, along with New York City's Central Park (begun in 1858), Philadelphia's Fairmount Park (1812), and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. is ranked as U.S.

11. Hampton National Historic Site

Hampton National Historic Site, in the Hamptons area north of Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, preserves the remains of a large 18th-century estate, including a Georgian mansion house, gardens, fields, and original stone slave quarters. The estate was owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations from 1745 to 1948. Hampton Mansion was the largest private residence in America when it was completed in 1790, and today it is considered one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the United States. States. Its furnishings, along with the estate's slave quarters and other preserved structures, provide an insight into the life of the landed gentry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1948, Hampton was the first place selected by the US National Park Service as a National Historic Site for its architectural significance. The grounds were widely admired in the 19th century for their elaborate patres, or formal gardens, which were restored to resemble their appearance in the 1820s. A few trees are more than 200 years old. In addition to the mansion and grounds, visitors can tour the overseer's house and slave quarters, one of the few plantations that still has its original slave quarters.