Pittsburgh Travel Guide
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Pittsburgh has three rivers—the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Ohio-- and five main districts—North Side, West End, South Side, East End and Downtown, all of which are comprised of many other smaller districts. Everything else, such as the Pittsburgh International Airport , is in the surrounding Allegheny County. Downtown It's a … Read Pittsburgh introduction
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Pittsburgh is a wonderful city that hasnt forgotten its roots. There is everything from theatres to bars to sports in this great city of ours. For a travel guide to this city check out our website ... more
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Introduction
Today's Pittsburgh is no longer a city of grimy steel and coal industries: nowadays it's teeming with culture, beauty and civic pride. Although it's still in many ways a blue-collar town, it's as comfortable with Carnegie museums as it is with the Steelers football team.
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Cathedral of Learning The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are here, and the surrounding streets are packed with cheap eateries, cafés, shops and student homes. Rising up from the center of the U Pitt campus is the soaring Cathedral of Learning, a grand, 42-story …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 334563 Area : 55.6km² Longitude / Latitude : -79.9970855713 / 40.4972038269 Currency : US Dollar (USD) Weights & Measures system : Imperial
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there Pittsburgh International Airport, 29km (18mi) from downtown, has direct connections to Europe, Canada and major US cities. Airport buses run downtown every 20 minutes. The Greyhound bus depot (990 2nd Ave.) has temporarily relocated to a rather inconvenient location next to the …
History
Recent History An urban-renewal program saw the downtown area transformed, but not without a price: many architecturally important buildings were razed to make way for skyscrapers. Fortunately, many (such as the Allegheny County Courthouse) remain, and some of Pittsburgh's traditional …
Weather
Despite being near the Atlantic Ocean, Pennsylvania has a more continental climate, characterised by wide temperature differences between winter and summer. This is caused by prevailing winds from the western interior. The city's daytime temperature averages around 4°C (39°F) …
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Overview
Pittsburgh lies where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers meet to form the Ohio River, in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania. First an 18th-century French fortress and trading post, Fort Duquesne, then the British Fort Pitt, the city emerged as an industrial powerhouse in the 1800s, …
City Guide
Home to nine Fortune 500 companies, two sports stadiums, the Andy Warhol Museum and scores of cultural activities, Pittsburgh is not the dirty steel town that your parents or grandparents knew. The city's hills and natural beauty cause it to stand out among American cities. The city's three …
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Popular Attractions in Pittsburgh
- 1.Point State Park
- 2.Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
- 3.Silver Eye Center for Photography
- 4.Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- 5.Roberto Clemente Memorial Park
- 6.Carnegie Museum of Art
- 7.Carnegie Science Center
- 8.Birdsfoot Golf Club
- 9.Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
- 10.Sculpture Court at Allegheny Landing
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