2008. október 30., csütörtök

Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas

The Omni Mandalay Hotel is a four-diamond destination that offers the Dallas area's largest guest room accommodations, contemporary amenities, state-of-the-art meeting facilities, a full-service day spa and salon and a world-class art collection. Just 10-15 minutes from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport or Love Field.
web: http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/DallasMandalay.aspx

LOEWS Philadelphia Hotel

The first skyscraper ever built in the City of Brotherly Love is home to Loews Philadelphia Hotel. Contemporary décor and gracious hospitality make Loews one of Philadelphia’s most inviting luxury hotels. Enjoy supremely comfortable rooms and personalized service, as well as delicious cuisine from the hip Sole Food restaurant.
web: http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Hotels/Philadelphia-Hotel/Overview.aspx

Westin Philadelphia

The Westin Philadelphia impresses both business and leisure travelers alike with its 294 guest rooms and 19 suites, all beautifully appointed with welcoming décor and revitalizing amenities. Our signature Heavenly Bed ensures a relaxing night's sleep, and the Heavenly Bath® is the perfect place to refresh.
web: http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1231

Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia

The Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia is rich in tradition, as it has been servicing elite Philadelphians and guests for many years. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Plaza-Warwick Hotel was originally constructed in 1926. With 301 handsomely appointed rooms, this historic yet modern Philadelphia hotel is located just off the world-renowned Rittenhouse Square, the city's most prestigious residential, commercial and business district.
web: http://www.radisson.com/philadelphiapa

Morris House Hotel - Philadelphia

This registered national historic landmark has been renovated into a luxury boutique hotel which offers the coziness of a bed and breakfast, in an 18th century setting, combined with the luxuries of today.Each of the fifteen rooms is decorated with individual charm and remarkable attention to detail. As the only hotel in Center City Philadelphia with a private garden, we specialize in hosting small weddings, bar mitzvahs, corporate retreats, meetings and events of all kinds.Whether you are attending a business convention, experiencing the nation's history, visiting a family member in the hospital, or just having a night out - we are within arm's reach the most important attractions of Center City.
web: http://www.morrishousehotel.com/

Rittenhouse Hotel - Philadelphia

The Rittenhouse Hotel is the most prestigious Philadelphia Pennsylvania hotel address. Consistently recognized not only as the premier choice of five-diamond Philadelphia luxury hotels, The Rittenhouse is also ranked among the world´s finest places to stay.

web: http://www.rittenhousehotel.com/

The Latham Hotel, Center City, Philadelphia

The Latham is a Classic European-style, boutique hotel that is comparable to the finest European tradition of small, elegant, and professionally staffed hotels.
Ideally located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, The Latham is surrounded by the city's finest restaurants, shops and theatres. Many nationally renowned museums and historical landmarks including: The Liberty Bell, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Independence Mall and the National Constitution Center are all just minutes away.
http://www.lathamhotel.com/

2008. október 28., kedd

Independence National Historical Park Philadelphia

Independence National Historical Park preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Administered by the National Park Service, the 180,000 m2 park comprises much of the historic area of downtown where Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the Independence Visitor Center, and the National Constitution Center are located, along with dozens of other historic buildings and educational centers. The sites located within the park are in the Old City and Society Hill neighborhoods of the city.

Southwest Philadelphia

Southwest Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The section can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the SEPTA R3 Media-Elwyn line serving as the northern border. The northern border is also defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along 51st Street to Springfield Ave. It follows the train tracks until 49th Street. From 49th and Kingsessing Ave the line moves east along Kingsessing Ave. The line then moves south along 46th St to Paschall Ave where it jogs to join Grays Ferry where the line runs to the Schuylkill River.
Southwest Philadelphia is also described by the city as being the area south of Baltimore Avenue ; this definition has historical merit as Baltimore Avenue between 49th and 52nd Streets was known as "The Hub of Southwest Philadelphia" at the turn of the century. Today however the R3 tracks are the more common reference dividing Southwest from West Philadelphia.

Atlantic Coastal Plain in Philadelphia

The Atlantic Coastal Plain is the flat stretch of land that borders the Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico). It is approximately 2,200 miles (3,500 km) long, stretching from New Jersey, through the southeast United States and through Mexico, ending with the Yucatán Peninsula. The coastal plains have an average elevation of less than 200 meters above sea level. They extend some 50 to 100 kilometres inland from the ocean. The section from central Florida to the Yucatán Peninsula is also commonly referred to separately as the Gulf Coastal Plain.

Schuylkill River in Philadelphia

The Schuylkill River, most often pronounced, is a river in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River.
The river is about 209 km long. Its watershed of about 5,000 km² lies entirely within the state of Pennsylvania. The source of its eastern branch is in the Appalachian Mountains at Tuscarora Springs, near Tamaqua in Schuylkill County. The west branch starts near Minersville and joins the eastern branch at the town of Schuylkill Haven. The Tulpehocken Creek joins it at the western edge of Reading. Wissahickon Creek joins it in northwest Philadelphia. Other major tributaries include the Little Schuylkill River, Maiden Creek, Manatawny Creek, French Creek, and Perkiomen Creek. The Schuylkill joins the Delaware River, of which it is the largest tributary, at the site of the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, now the Philadelphia Naval Business Center, just northeast of Philadelphia International Airport.

Delaware River in Philadelphia

The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. The Delaware was explored by Adriaen Block as part of the New Netherlands Colony, and was named the South River to mark the southernmost reach of that colony.
The river meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey. Its total length, from the head of the longest branch to the capes, is 660 km, and above the head of the bay its length is 579 km. The mean freshwater discharge of the Delaware River into the estuary is 330 m³ per second.

2008. október 27., hétfő

Philadelphia liberty bell

The bell tower steeple of Independence Hall was the original home of the "Liberty Bell" and today it holds a "Centennial Bell" that was created for the United States Centennial Exposition in 1876. The original Liberty Bell, with its distinctive crack, is now on display across the street in the Liberty Bell Center. In 1976 Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain visited Philadelphia and presented a gift to the American people of a replica Bicentennial Bell, which was cast in the same British foundry as the original. This 1976 bell hangs in the modern bell tower located on 3rd Street near Independence Hall.

Philadelphia independence hall

Independence Hall is a U.S. national landmark located inside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets. Known primarily as the location where the Declaration of Independence was debated and adopted, the building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House for the Province of Pennsylvania. It became the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1783. The United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were both signed at Independence Hall. The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical Park and listed as a World Heritage Site.

Philadelphia liberty place

Liberty Place refers to Liberty Place Complex, an office complex developed by Rouse and Associates (now Liberty Property Trust) located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The complex includes the following buildings:
One Liberty Place, the 16th tallest skyscraper in the United States
Two Liberty Place, the sister building of One Liberty Place

Philadelphia sister cities

Philadelphia has ten sister cities, as designated by the International Visitors Council of Philadelphia (IVC):
Florence, Italy (1964)
Tel Aviv, Israel (1966)
Toruń, Poland (1976)
Tianjin, China (1980)
Incheon, South Korea (1984)
Douala, Cameroon (1986)
Kobe, Japan (1986)
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (1992)
Abruzzo, Italy (1997)
Aix-en-Provence, France (1999)

Philadelphia airports

Two airports serve Philadelphia: the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), straddling the southern boundary of the city, and the Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), a general aviation reliever airport in Northeast Philadelphia. Philadelphia International Airport provides scheduled domestic and international air service, while Northeast Philadelphia Airport serves general and corporate aviation. As of March 2006, Philadelphia International Airport was the 10th largest airport measured by "traffic movements" (i.e. takeoffs and landings), and was also a primary hub for US Airways.

Philadelphia shopping

Center City is home to The Gallery at Market East, The Shops at Liberty Place and The Shops at the Bellevue, and a variety of standalone retail stores. Rittenhouse Row, a section of Walnut Street in Center City, has higher-end stores and boutiques. Old City and Society Hill, as well, feature upscale boutiques and retailers from local and international merchandisers. Philadelphia also has several neighborhood shopping districts, including Manayunk and Chestnut Hill. Also noteworthy is South Street with blocks of inexpensive boutiques.
The Italian Market in South Philadelphia offers groceries, meats, cheeses and housewares from Italy and other countries. Geno's and Pat's, two famed cheesesteak outlets, are located here. The Reading Terminal Market in Center City includes dozens of restaurants, farm stalls, and shops, many run by Amish farmers from Lancaster County. There are also neighborhood farmers' markets throughout the city.

Philadelphia culture

Philadelphia contains many national historical sites that relate to the founding of the United States. Independence National Historical Park is the center of these historical landmarks. Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the Liberty Bell are the city's most famous attractions. Other historic sites include homes for Edgar Allan Poe, Betsy Ross, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, early government buildings like the First and Second Banks of the United States, and the Gloria Dei Church National Historic Site.
Philadelphia's major science museums include the Franklin Institute, which contains the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. History museums include the National Constitution Center, the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia History, the National Museum of American Jewish History, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the state of Pennsylvania and The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania and Eastern State Penitentiary. Philadelphia is home to the United States' first zoo and hospital.

Philadelphia Climate

Philadelphia falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. Summers are typically hot and muggy, fall and spring are generally mild, and winter is cold. Snowfall is variable, with some winters bringing moderate snow and others bringing some significant snowstorms. Annual snowfall averages 21 inches (534 mm). Precipitation is generally spread throughout the year, with eight to eleven wet days per month, at an average annual rate of 42 inches (1068 mm).
January lows average −4 °C and highs average 4 °C. The lowest officially recorded temperature was −24 °C on February 9, 1934, but temperatures below −18 °C occur only a few times a decade. July lows average 21 °C and highs average 30 °C, although heat waves accompanied by high humidity are frequent with highs above 35 °C and the heat index running as high as 43 °C. The highest recorded temperature was 41 °C on August 7, 1918. Early fall and late winter are generally driest, with February being the driest month, averaging only 2.74 inches (69.8 mm) of precipitation.

Philadelphia topography

Philadelphia is located at 40° 00′ north latitude and 75° 09′ west longitude. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 142.6 square miles (369.3 km2), of which 135.1 square miles (349.9 km2) is land and 7.6 square miles (19.7 km2), or 5.29%, is water. Bodies of water include the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, and Cobbs, Wissahickon, and Pennypack Creeks.
The lowest point is sea level, while the highest point is in Chestnut Hill, at approximately 445 feet (136 m) above sea level (near the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike).
Philadelphia is located on the Fall Line separating the Atlantic Coastal Plain from the Piedmont.The rapids on the Schuylkill River at East Falls disappeared after the completion of the Fairmount Dam.
The city is the seat of its own county. The adjacent counties are Montgomery to the north; Bucks to the northeast; Burlington County, New Jersey to the east; Camden County, New Jersey to the southeast; Gloucester County, New Jersey to the south; and Delaware County to the west.

Philadelphia City

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth most populous city in the United States. It is the fifth largest metropolitan area and fourth largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th most populous city in the world. It is the county seat of Philadelphia County. A popular nickname for Philadelphia is The City of Brotherly Love, Modern, "brotherly love" from philos, "love", and adelphos "brother". The city is recognized as a strong candidate global city.