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Manhattan is home to four of the most famous women in television history. Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte, Samantha and fiery red head Miranda stomp through the city as they live the ups and downs of middle aged women trying to find love and life in the big apple. The hit HBO series was the inspiration to women everywhere. Sarah Jessica Parker played New York columnists Carrie Bradshaw. Carrie’s stoop on 66 Perry st became a historic part of the lower east side. Many tourists and fans of the show fly to Manhattan and just to stand ion the stoop where Carrie and Big had so many of their most famous scenes. The number of tears shed on that stoop between Carrie and her many men are countless. It is amazing that one doorstep can hold so many memories. Manhattan is a place to make memories indeed. The opening scene of the series is of the gal pals walking the streets in their stiletto sandals and experiencing the fashion and energy that is Manhattan. Pack a bag and bring the most fashionable clothes and highest heels to spend the night in manhattan hotels new york . Manolo Blahniks were made the must have shoe by Carrie Bradshaw herself. Charlotte even had an entire episode of her trying on shoes for a shoe salesman who had a foot fetish and would give her a discount on shoes just for trying them on and modeling them for him. The streets of Manhattan and the various eateries and night clubs seen in the series highlight the very best of the city. The women share life experiences in dating, loss, happiness, career milestones and of course, friendship. The ups and downs of being a friend are not masked. One episode has Miranda following Carrie several blocks in Manhattan, just to make sure she arrives home o.k., even though they are not speaking to each other.

What city in the world has at its center 843 acres devoted to nature, to trees and lakes and animals? Central Park in New York is the only one that comes immediately to mind, a place so large that it’s possible to visit New York and spend most of your time either in the park or on its periphery, considering that it’s ringed also by some of the finest museums and restaurants on the planet. It makes sense then to book a nearby room , in order to take full advantage of the natural world inside an immense rectangle of skyscrapers.

To orient yourself to the park, you might try a Central Park Walking Tour , which combines a number of features, such as maps and podcasts, and interactive guides, which will take you to specific features of the park. You’ll be given information about how the park was conceived and built and pointing out the best places to take pictures. There are also downloadable PDF maps and MP3 files which means you can carry your guide with you as you lose yourself in this gigantic public space.

The tours offered vary from Family Tours to an Arts and Architecture Tour. In the Family Tour, you’ll learn about such sites as the zoo (and children’s zoo), statues of Hans Christian Andersen, Alice in Wonderland, and Balto, Alaska’s heroic sled dog, and Conservatory Water, which you’ll find next to Fifth Avenue amid the journeys of miniature sailboats. The Arts and Architecture Tour includes the Belvedere Castle, which serves as a weather station, the Swedish Cottage, a marionette theater, and the Obelisk, known as Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500 year old monument from Egypt in the middle of a park that is itself 151 years old. If you go on this walk, you’ll be entering a national historic landmark, which was declared as such in 1963, and joining the park’s 25 millions visitors a year.

It takes a special group of people to foresee the future in preserving special places and things knowing that they would be valuable some day. The Mecklenburg Historical Association has seen to it that sites in Mecklenburg County NC with historic significance are preserved, visited and celebrated in the present and into the future. This association was founded in 1954 but there were other organizations similar to it that go back as far as 1875. This is were some can go to find out about their ancestors who came from this area of the country. The city of Charlotte was founded in 1769 and there are many interesting sites that have been preserved for our generation and beyond. Visitors book the best charlotte hotels they can find and dive into the history that came before them.  

Charlotte today is an important city but it wasn’t always that way. It started as a small back country town who claims to be in a county that was the first to declare independence from the English royalty in 1775. The famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is the famous document and it is celebrated each year with a festival. The Charlotte Museum of History is a great place to start learning about the founding people and their experiences. There is a lot of information from many centuries from the 18th century to present day. It is located inside the Hezekiah Alexander House that was built around 1774 and is the oldest surviving building in Charlotte. It also is the home of the American Freedom Bell as well as the Back country Patriot Statue in the historic gardens. Also in Charlotte area there is a restored plantation building that was built around 1800. Near by there is also a replica of the birthplace of James K. Polk out of Pineville. Sitting on a hilltop in Charlotte not far from the Square of Trade and Tryon Street visitors will find the oldest cemetery in the city. The Old Settlers’ Cemetery is were the remains of the most prominent citizens who lived in Charlotte from 1776 to 1867.