Dallas Travel Guide

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"Harrow""", an installation by Linnea Glatt. The motorised cone completes one revolution every 24 hours, symbolising the cyclical nature of life - Lubben Plaza," downtown Dallas.""" in Dallas Republic Center Tower and Thanksgiving Square Chapel.

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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 …
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Meadows Museum
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Dallas Museum of Art
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Grapevine Mills
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Riddell Rare Maps & Fine Prints

Sheraton Park Central West Hotel

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This is the new Sheraton Park Central. The old one (on Merit Drive) is now a sister Starwood property, the Westin Park Central . The rooms are designed for the …
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The Fairmont Dallas
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Adam's Mark Dallas
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Renaissance Dallas Hotel
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Hotel Crescent Court, A Rosewood Hotel

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, is complete with Spanish rice and black …
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L'Ancestral
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Atlanta Bread Company
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Kirby's Steakhouse
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Sipango

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.

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Not to miss

Fair Park Created in 1936, when Dallas hosted the Texas Centennial Exposition, Fair Park is chock full of concrete art-deco architecture and museums. The park is also home to Cotton Bowl stadium and the Texas State Fair. Be warned that Fair Park is not in the best neighbourhood, but is perfectly …

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Facts for the Traveller

Population : 1100000 Area : 886km² Longitude / Latitude : -96.6636886597 / 32.7637290955 Currency : US Dollar (USD) Weights & Measures system : Imperial

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Overview

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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Overview of Dallas

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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