Dallas Travel Guide
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Dallas is home to more than a million people, with more moving here every day. The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is known as the Southwest's leading business and financial center and as the number one visitor destination in Texas. Big business is a big deal in this city, evident in the increasing number of companies that relocate to Dallas … Read Dallas introduction
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Museum of Nature and Science
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In 2006, the Dallas Museum of Natural History and The Science Place merged into one institution. The Natural History Museum, founded in 1936, is collections-based and research-driven. It has a vast collection of rare and extinct …
Hotel Crescent Court, A Rosewood Hotel
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Luxurious with the stately elegance of 19th Century Europe, this uptown hotel preserves the prestige and sophistication associated with its affluent …
Via Real
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The menu at Via Real will appeal to both Tex-Mex and authentic Mexican food lovers alike. Grilled fresh fish is served daily and the Cancun plate, large Gulf Shrimp and bacon-wrapped scallops, are complete with Spanish rice and black …
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IVE NEVER BEEN TO A CITY SO AWESOME. AND THE BEST PART IS THAT THE SPORTS TEAMS ARE THE BEST IN THE NATION! ST LOUIS, HOUSTON AND SAN ANTONIO SUCK!
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Introduction
Dallas is the most mythical city in Texas, with a past and present rich in all the stuff of which American legends - and TV shows - are made. It stands tall as a paragon of conspicuous consumption, a city known for its business acumen, its restaurants and its shopping.
Not to miss
Nasher Sculpture Center Modern-art installations shine both outside and in at the fabulous glass-and-steel Nasher Sculpture Center and gardens. Fair Park Home to the state fair and Cotton Bowl stadium, Fair Park was created for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Today art-deco buildings …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 1100000 Area : 886km² Longitude / Latitude : -96.6636886597 / 32.7637290955 Currency : US Dollar (USD) Weights & Measures system : Imperial
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is a busy airport, with about 1400 daily flights arriving or leaving from an airfield bigger than Manhattan island. Most are to other US cities, but there are also many Canadian, Mexican and European connections. Love Field (DAL), the …
History
Recent History The Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl three times in the 90s, keeping the city in the spotlight. The long hot summer of 1998 again brought Dallas into the news, with temperatures of at least 38°C (100°F) for 29 consecutive days, widespread crop failures and more than 100 …
Weather
While some would say sheepishly that the weather depends on the aircon, it tends to be generally warm throughout the year and fiercely hot in summer. Rain is most common in spring and is often accompanied by lightning storms and, in extreme cases, hail, floods, tornados and hurricanes. As Dallas is …
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Overview of Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
North Texas's two biggest cities, Dallas and Fort Worth, are often referred to as DFW -- or, in a term that could only have been devised by so-called marketing geniuses, the Metroplex -- as though they were closely intertwined twin cities. While unrelenting development has filled the flat land …
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These twin cities, separated by 30 miles of suburbs, may be the oddest couple of all in a state of odd couples. Dallas is glitzy and ritzy, a swelling, modernistic business metropolis whose inhabitants go to bed early and to church on Sunday. Fort Worth, sneered at as Cowtown by its neighbors, lives …
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Known to locals as simply Big D, this North Texas upstart doesn't lack for confidence. The indoctrination starts early. I grew up in North Dallas, and the refrain that all school kids had to parrot was from a little ditty that went Big D, little a, double-l, a-s. Dallasites, like most Texans who are …
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