Cultural Notes

NEW YORK

Considered the cultural capital of the Americas, New York brings together people and cultures from all corners of the world. One of the largest cities on the planet, New York offers a plethora of attractions in any season, but is especially pleasant during the spring and autumn.
New York boasts an extraordinary array of museums and galleries, and an unparalleled night. The main attractions are located on the island of Manhattan, address mandatory for visitors to New York. The island is home to luxury stores, residential areas and most important financial center of the planet.


New York - Landmarks

Central Park: It is the sanctuary of New York, a magnificent garden of 337 acres with ponds, areas for sports (like ice skating rinks, tennis courts, jogging track, baseball, etc.) and spaces for attractions cultural. Located in the heart of Manhattan, the financial center of New York

Statue of Liberty, located on Liberty Island, opposite the Port of New York, the statue was donated by France as a sign of friendship between the two countries and it constitutes one of the most famous monuments in the world, symbol of the USA.
Ellis Island: the island was integrated into the National Monument Statue of Liberty. The main building of Ellis Island is now a museum dedicated to the history of immigration in New York and the important role played by the island during the mass migration in America in the century. XIX.
Empire State Building with 102 floors, is a wonderful example of architecture of the 1st half of the century. XX, The observatories are the 102's 86th floor and offer a magnificent view of the city. The building is the largest of New York and the second largest in the U.S..
Battery Park: the southern tip of Manhattan, its main attraction is Castle Clinton, in addition, the park has extensive gardens and serves as access to Liberty Island and Ellis Island.
Brooklyn Bridge, considered the eighth wonder of the world when it was completed in 1883, the bridge is an engineering masterpiece, with its suspension cables and a beautiful view of New York, and connects Manhattan to Brooklyn, over the East River.
Rockefeller Center: seen as a masterpiece of urban design in New York, the site offers dining options, shops and services. At the bottom, the square is used as an ice skating rink during the winter and as open-air restaurant in summer.
Time Square: most famous corner in New York, tourists can find movie theaters, fancy lights and megastores.
Soho, is a part of New York where they are concentrated galleries, shops and boutiques, where they are sold precious curios. Highlight for its architecture of molten steel, which houses large lofts inhabited by artists.
Tribeca: without the fame and architecture of Soho, but with its own attractions, is home to galleries, cafes and bars in their abandoned factories. It's a very neighborhood frequented by stars.
Greenwich Village, is the most popular district of New York, New Yorker bohemian refuge, has been a refuge for rock stars like Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, and now houses bars, cafes and historic sites, and also to Washington Square, a large movement of students from New York University.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The largest art museum in the Americas with more than 02 million works.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the largest and most visited museums in New York. Its permanent collection are works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Mondrian, among other artists.
Guggenheim Museum: a 07-story building whose conical interior houses important works of the century. Nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as traveling exhibitions.


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The History of the United States is the story of a relatively young country, having declared its independence on July 4, 1776, from England. This independence is recognized by the British in 1783, the Treaty of Paris. The territory that now constitutes the United States was populated by dozens of native tribes, before the arrival of early European explorers in the region. During the sixteenth and seventeenth century, these territories have become colonized by various European countries.

The British colonized the region from the Atlantic coast, where they founded a total of Thirteen Colonies. These colonies, initially very different and distant from each other politically and culturally, have banded together and declared their independence on July 4, 1776, and this independence was recognized by Britain after the end of the American Revolution, 1776, 1783, under the Treaty of Paris. Since then, the United States gradually evolve into a superpower, rising to exert increasing political influence, economic, military and cultural landscape in the world.