Atlanta's major attractions reflect the pluralistic character of the city. A building boom is being balanced more and more with preservation awareness, interfacing a futuristic city with scattered samples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Atlanta.
Consider some of the sights to be seen, all intriguing in their own right and held together as a catalog of attractions by a city that thrives on contrast and competition. Here are megastructures for the sophisticated traveler and urbanite. Here are an intown zoo with a tropical rain forest and a botanical garden bursting with thousands of varieties of flora and fauna from around the world. Here are recreational parks built on fun and fantasy and a historical society geared to keeping the traditions and artifacts. Consider a small Victorian cottage that housed the writer of the Uncle Remus tales an earlier, more gentle way of explaining how things came to be then reflect on a high-tech broadÂcasting center. Visit an observatory to chart the Southern skies, and creek beds and battlefields to scour for arrowheads and Civil War relics. Visit the government, stately in its gold-domed splendor, and another district honoring civil rights for all Americans.
From the heady rush of the glass elevators up the outside of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Atlanta Hotel to your viewing station at the top, to the lateral movement in the downtown business district, Atlanta, the city reaching for her destiny, is the greatest sight to see. Enjoy the many faces of this vibrant city. |
