Cincinnati today

A Portrait in Color. Rising on the hills from the Ohio River, in southwestern Ohio, Cincinnati is close to Indiana and Kentucky and serves a large, natural tri-state region. The city is where it is for a reason. Cincinnati grew at the confluence of an ancient north-south and east-west water­way, the Ohio River and the Miami-Erie Canal-Licking River Valley system.

Cincinnati has been labeled "City on the Move" and that is just what it is trying to do in industrial development, in community programs, and in developing adequate health, welfare, and rehabilita­tion services.

Cincinnati is the gateway to the South and the Midwest. Sixty percent of the country's population lives within six hundred miles of Cincinnati, and sixty-five percent of the nation's value added by manufacturing agents takes place within six hundred miles of the city. The city's population is 370,000 – Greater Cincinnati's population is 1,600,000.

Cincinnati is famous for its cultural and intellectual traditions. It is the home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Taft Museum, and the new Union Terminal Museum Center. Its sports and entertainment facilities are first class, led by the Reds and Bengals. The city has a large convention center, Zoological and Botanical Garden, theaters, libraries, and eighty major parks.

There are seven universities and colleges. The University of Cincinnati has 36,000 students and almost 3,000 full and part-time faculty and is the second largest university in Ohio. Its colleges of engineering, architecture, business, law, music, and medicine are well known.

For visitors with a free evening, there are many activities. There are award-winning restaurants to suit every taste. If you want to see something out of the ordinary, consider a visit to the river-boat restaurants or Mt. Adams with its off-beat establishments or both. The city offers a variety of places to go and things to do, whether the interest be cosmo­politan or conservative, entertainment or educational. Throughout most of the year, there is a choice of sports, cultural activities, educational programs, and special opportunities for side trips. A trip on the river is like a journey on the Rhine – a view of fertile valleys, scenic hills, forests, and fields.

Cincinnati is a safe and productive community with jobs, transportation, highways, plus a world-class airport, culture, sports, and a good quality of life. Its closeness to two-thirds of the populations of the United States makes the city an ideal meeting place. It has big-city amenities with a small-city "feel." It is a good place to visit and to live.

Leeds leads

Take a fresh look at Leeds and you will find that the commercial capital of Yorkshire is European in outlook but unmistakably English in style, design and culture and unrivalled as a shopping destination and centre for entertainment, the arts, museums, restaurants, pubs and clubs.

Whatever your interest, Leeds offers quality: the facts speak for themselves. The Royal Armouries is the first purpose-built national museum this century which houses part of the Royal Collection from the Tower of London. The pedestrianised City Centre offers 2 miles of traffic free shopping and 1 mile of indoor shopping including over 1000 shops, 300 of which offer fashion and clothes. The arrival of chic Harvey Nichols confirms the tag "Knightsbridge of the North".

Leeds certainly leads while other cities can only follow.

Shopping For Pleasure. Shopping is the number one pastime in Britain and nowhere is the experience more pleasurable than in Leeds. A wide choice of facilities makes shopping in Leeds a rich and varied experience with minimal time spent walking between stores. An intoxicating mix of stylish stores means you're sure to shop until you drop.

The magnificently domed Corn Exchange may be modelled on the colloseum in Rome, though the only sacrifice likely to be made will be with your credit card. A mixture of over 60 speciality shops from trendy clothing to crafts, compact discs even condoms! Also a regular antiques market. The gilded lettering, mosaic floors and stained glass roof exude class in the Victoria Quarter. The shop windows glitter with designer labels wherever you look, even a continental bakers - Krousties and a stylish cafe bar: not forgetting Harvey Nichols, the store to be seen in, and the new Vivienne Westwood shop.

The strength of the city rests in the variety of its markets, in modern malls and the top household names all found in a pedestrianised City Centre.

Don't forget the canalside shopping of Granary Wharf. Over 30 shops and 100 stalls at the Sunday Festival Market. Jugglers, musicians and stiltwalkers enliven the atmosphere. Hand crafted musical instruments, furniture, craft stalls, clothes, even beers from around the world make this shopping with a unique atmosphere.

A Cultured Choice. As a major European cultural centre Leeds is a buzzing mixture of art, music, dance and theatre, to be enjoyed at the city's galleries, museums and theatres and through an absolutely packed calendar of events which bring colour and spectacle to the streets, riverbanks and parks.

Leeds boasts a breadth of theatre that stretches from the City Varieties Music Hall, known to millions of TV viewers as the home of the "Good Old Days", to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, acclaimed as the 'National Theatre of the North', where performances range from classic British and European drama to premieres of new work by Yorkshire writers. For those whose taste leans towards the opera or ballet, the opulent Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House is home to the innovative Opera North.

Leeds' rich cultural heritage includes one of the finest collections of 20th century art in the UK, housed at the City Art Gallery, and one of the foremost collections of sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute.

Live At Leeds is a summer long series of outdoor concerts taking in opera, ballet, pop, jazz and classical music. At Opera In The Park, the largest free outdoor opera concert in the UK, Opera North perform live at Temple Newsam. This event, along with Ballet In The Park attracts over 45,000 people every Summer.

For visual vultures the Leeds International Film Festival, held in the city since 1986, is a unique feast of themed UK and world premieres, film talks, discussions and workshops. Regular classical concerts at the Town Hall attract musicians from all over the world, as does the Leeds International Piano Competition held every three years.

Rhythms of the City brings the summer streets to life with jugglers, mime artists, actors and portrait painters and the rhythm rocks at outdoor pop concerts in the superb settings of Temple Newsam and Roundhay Parks.

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