About City

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Widely known as Philly, but formerly known as the City of Philadelphia. It is also called the City of Brotherly Love. The fifth most populous city in the United States,and the core of the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the country. There are nearly 1.5 million people in the city alone. The city is located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, Philadelphia is the economic and cultural center of the Delaware Valley.


The city has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city, and Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the largest landscaped urban park in the world. The birthplace of America is Philadelphia, the city where the founding fathers lived and the Declaration of Independence was signed. Today that history echoes in the original buildings and museums of the area often called “Historic Philadelphia”. Lacking defined boundaries, Historic Philadelphia covers parts of the Old City and Center City neighborhoods and includes the Independence National Historic Park. Some of the top Historic Philadelphia attractions is not exhaustive, but it does include some of the most popular, interesting and informative places to visit in the area.


Center, Independence, Art, Rittenhouse, Reading, Eastern, Please, Masonic, Philadelphia, Franklin, Mutter. Many of the festivals on tap for the spring have been around for so long that they’ve turned into tried-and-true spring traditions. The Italian Market Festival, the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair and Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show while many have gained popularity in fairly recent years.The Roots Picnic, Awesome fest and Philly Beer Week.

 

Attractions & Landmarks

• Franklin Square.
• Valley Forge National Historical Park.
• National Constitution Center.
• The Barnes Foundation.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Longwood Gardens.