Top 9 Places to visit in Philadelphia

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Philadelphia, colloquially known as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth most populous city in the nation with a population of 1,603,797 at the 2020 census. The city is the urban center of the greater Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, the seventh largest in the nation and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with 6.245 million residents in its metropolitan statistical area and 7.366 million residents in its contiguous population. the area

Philadelphia is known for its extensive contributions to US history. The city served as the nation's capital until 1800. It maintains contemporary influence in business and industry, culture, sports and music. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious liberty. The city served as the capital of the Colony of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era and played a historic and important role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers. Philadelphia hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774, preserved the Liberty Bell, and hosted the Second Continental Congress, where founders signed the Declaration of Independence. The United States Constitution was later ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until 1790, serving as the nation's first capital from May 10, 1775 to December 12, 1776 and four times thereafter. American Revolutionary War, 1790 to 1800 New National Capital Washington, D.C.

With 18 four-year universities and colleges, Philadelphia is one of the nation's leading centers for higher education and academic research. By 2022, the Philadelphia metropolitan area will have a gross metropolitan product of US$518.5 billion. By 2022, the city will be home to five Fortune 500 corporate headquarters. By 2024, the capital city of Metropolitan Philadelphia will rank as one of Schubb's Five U. Facilitated by proximity to both the entrepreneurial and financial ecosystems of New York City and the federal regulatory environment of Washington, D.C. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, owned by Nasdaq since 2008, is the nation's oldest stock exchange and a global leader in options trading. The city's primary station, 30th Street Station, is the third-busiest Amtrak hub in the nation, and the city's multiple transportation and logistics infrastructures include Philadelphia International Airport, a major transatlantic gateway and a transcontinental hub, and the fast-growing Port of Philaport. .

Philadelphia is a national cultural center that hosts more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other city in the nation. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is 2,052 acres (830 ha), representing the largest urban park in the nation and the 45th largest in the world. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial and revolutionary era history; In 2016, it attracted 42 million domestic tourists who spent $6.8 billion, representing an economic impact of $11 billion on the city and surrounding Pennsylvania counties. The best city in the country for professional sports fans. The city has a culturally and philanthropically active LGBTQ+ community. Philadelphia has played an enormously influential historical and continuing role in the development and evolution of American music, particularly R&B, soul, and rock.

1. Eastern State Penitentiary

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Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American penitentiary located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was located in the Fairmount section of the city and operated from 1829 to 1971. The prison refined the revolutionary system of segregated incarceration, first pioneered at Walnut Street Jail, which emphasized reform principles over punishment.

Its innovative wagon wheel design housed notorious criminals such as Al Capone and bank robber Willie Sutton. For their role in the 1934 Kelayres massacre, James Bruno (Big Joe) and several male relatives were imprisoned here between 1936 and 1948 before their release. When it was completed, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever built in the United States and soon became a model for more than 300 prisons around the world.

The prison is currently a US National Historic Landmark, and is open six days a week (no Tuesdays), twelve months a year, from Open to the public as a museum for tours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

2. Reading Terminal Market

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The Reading Terminal Market is an indoor public market located at 12th and Arch Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It originally opened under the Reading Railroad Company's elevated train shed in 1893 after the City of Philadelphia proposed moving public markets from the streets to indoor facilities for safety and sanitary reasons.

When the Center City passenger connection ended in 1984, Reading Terminal ceased to function as a train station, affecting the market's foot traffic. The Reading Company proposed to use the Reading Terminal Complex as the site for a new conference centre. The site for the convention center was selected, and in 1990 the company transferred ownership of the complex to the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. Today, the market still occupies the ground floor and basement of the old train shed at Reading Terminal, which is still part of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Merchants' chambers occupied the ground floor with entrances on Filbert Street to the south, Twelfth Street to the west, and Arch Street to the north. Booths are arranged in a grid pattern with an open area in the center with tables and seats. Over one hundred vendors offer fresh produce, meats, fish, artisan cheeses, groceries, ice cream, flowers, grilled cheeses, baked goods, smoothies, crafts, books, clothing, and specialty and ethnic foods. Two of the merchants are descendants of the original merchants from the original opening in the late 1800s. The basement of the market houses the refrigerated storage area for use by vendors. When it was built in 1893, the warehouse area was considered state-of-the-art. Currently, the market is open every day of the week, although Pennsylvania Dutch vendors (a small but significant minority) usually do not operate until Sunday. Tuesday.

3. Independence Hall

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Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia where both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park, the structure was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Originally known as the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall was completed in 1753. It served as the first colonial-era capital of the province of Pennsylvania, and after American independence, the nation's first capital and the capital of Pennsylvania. .

Between 1775 and 1781, the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Congress in 1775 and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the following year, 1776. On June 21, 1788, it was the site of the Philadelphia Convention, where the United States Constitution, the world's longest written and codified national constitution, was drafted and ratified.

4. Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition. The main museum building was completed in 1928[8] on Fairmount, a hill northwest of Benjamin Franklin Park at Eakins Oval. The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects, including major pieces of European, American and Asian origin. Different classes of works of art include sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, armor and decorative arts.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art administers several annexes, including the Rodin Museum, located on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, located across the street north of the main building. Opened in 2007, the Perelman Building houses over 150,000 prints, drawings and photographs, 30,000 pieces of clothing and textiles, and over 1,000 objects of modern and contemporary design, including furniture, ceramics and glasswork.

The museum also administers the historic Colonial-era homes of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove, located in Fairmount Park. The main museum building and its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia and administered by a registered non-profit corporation.

The museum hosts several special exhibitions each year, including traveling exhibitions organized with other museums in the United States and abroad. In 2021, the museum had 437,348 visitors.

5. Liberty Bell Center

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The Liberty Bell, formerly known as the State House Bell or the Old State House Bell, is a symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia. Originally housed in the main building of the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Liberty Hall, the Liberty Bell is today located across the street from Liberty Hall at the Liberty Bell Center in Liberty National Historical Park.

The bell was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Provincial Council in 1752 from the London-based firm of Lester and Pack, later named the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, and cast with the scriptural, "Proclaim liberty to all the land." From the book of Leviticus (25:10). The bell was first cracked when it was rung after arriving in Philadelphia, and was rebuilt twice by local laborers John Pass and John Stow, whose last names are mentioned on the bell. In its early years, the bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and alert citizens to public meetings and proclamations.

Although the Wood resolution of the Second Continental Congress did not make an immediate statement on the vote for independence on July 2, 1776, or the unanimous adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence two days later on July 4, 1776, it is likely. First Ringing of the Liberty Bell On July 8, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read to the public for the first time along with other bells in Philadelphia. Although there is no contemporary record of the ringing of the Liberty Bell, many historians believe that the Liberty Bell was among the bells rung that day.

Although there is no historical agreement on the exact date the bell cracked, its exceptionally large crack did not occur until nearly a century of heavy use. According to the National Park Service, "...the most likely explanation is that a narrow divide developed in the early 1840s after nearly 90 years of heavy use. In 1846, the city decided to repair the bell before George Washington's birthday holiday." When done (February 23), metalworkers widened the thin crack to prevent it from spreading further and restored the tone of the bell using a technique called 'stop drilling'.

After World War II, Philadelphia allowed the National Park Service to take over the bell, retaining ownership. The bell was used as a symbol of freedom during the Cold War and was a popular site for protests in the 1960s. It was moved from its longtime home at Independence Hall to a nearby glass pavilion on Independence Mall in 1976, and then to the larger Liberty Bell Center adjacent to the pavilion in 2003. The image of the bell has been widely used on coins and stamps and its name and its name and image by corporations.

6. Barnes

The Barnes Foundation has one of the finest collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings in the world. An extraordinary number of works by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse provide a depth not available elsewhere by these artists. Established as an educational institution, Barnes holds its mission teaching classes in its galleries and arboretum.

7. Rocky Statue \ Rocky Steps

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The Rocky Steps are 72 stone steps leading up to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, which gained global fame after appearing in a prominent scene in the 1976 film Rocky. In the scene, South Philadelphian Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone, an unpolished but ambitious boxer, begins intense physical training after deciding to fight world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. The scene is widely considered one of the most iconic in modern film history.

Tourists often imitate Rocky's famous climb, which has become a physical metaphor for an underdog rising to a great challenge. A bronze petroglyph is located at the bottom right of the steps and is a popular photo opportunity for visitors. The top of the stairs offers a commanding view of Eakins Oval, Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Philadelphia City Hall.

8. Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

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Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is a non-profit organization, folk art environment, and gallery space on South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To date, it is the largest work created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar. The Magic Garden spans three city plots, featuring indoor galleries and a large outdoor labyrinth. Mosaics are made from kitchen tiles to bicycle wheels, from Latin-American art to Chinese plates. The space is open for public viewing from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday through Monday and closed on Tuesdays.

9. Citizens Bank Park

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Citizens Bank Park is a baseball stadium located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the city's South Philadelphia Sports Complex. The stadium, home of Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, opened on April 3, 2004, and nine days later hosted its first regular season baseball game, a 4–1 loss to the Phillies against the Cincinnati Reds. It is named Citizen Finance Group.

The 42,901-seat ballpark was built in 2004 to replace the 33-year-old Veterans Stadium, a multipurpose football and baseball facility. Citizens Bank Park features natural grass and dirt playgrounds and a Philadelphia-style cafeteria. Serve cheesesteak sandwiches, hoagies, Tastykakes, soft pretzels, Yards and Yuengling beer, and other regional specialties.

Lincoln Financial Field, the Wells Fargo Center and the center's theme park and food court, Xfinity Live! The ballpark is located in the northeast corner of the indoor sports complex.