Atlanta Travel Guide

Born artificially from the railroad in 1837 only with the crossroads of old Indian tracks, Atlanta is a young city, even on a United States scale. To the American Civil War, it was only one small crossroads of communication but its accessibility made of it a center of major provisioning and the arsenal of confederated. It is a very wide agglomeration today where immense parks and forests alternate with urban fabric. It is not always easy to be located downtown, this one not having a checkerboard plan as obvious as its colleagues. All turns around Peachtree Street, interminable North-South directed artery. Attention because Peachtree is used with all sauces
Each principal spot, Downtown, Martin Luther King Jr Historic District (on Auburn Avenue) and connected Little Five Points and Virginia-Highland are explored easily with foot and one should not hesitate to make use of the ultramodern subway in particular to rejoin Buckhead. Downtown, start with a fast jump with the Underground Atlanta, old heart of the city burned by the troops of Sherman in 1864, become a shopping mall Centennial Olympic Park, 400 meters in the North-West, the splendid framework of the Olympic Games of 1996 with the innumerable sown achievements of works d' modern art and of fountains, remains the site in the open air many demonstrations.
Hardly 800 meters in the east of Downtown, Sweet Auburn is today one of the large monuments of the American black culture. With its apogee in the mad years, this black district thrives was the site many black companies and clubs of jazz. But the Great Depression was going to start its decline. Everyone comes there in pilgrimage for moving Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site which venerates the native born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta. One mile in the south-west of Downtown, Grant Park owes its name with the one of the defenders of the city and not in Ulysses Simpson, the General of the Union which will become president, do not forget that one is in the South Midtown, go up Peachtree Street, until number 990. The house of Margaret Mitchell which miraculeusement survived, is a museum today. This old journalist of Atlanta Journal is especially known as author of the novel Gone With The Wind published in 1936. He was worth the Pulitzer price to him in 1937 and one world famous thanks to the international success of his film adaptation which was going to insert in the legend of the cinema Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in the blazing opus of Victor Fleming and especially, masterly work of David O. Selznick.