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Top 10 sights in Cincinnati

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   Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

   Founded in 1873 and the second oldest zoo in the country. Martha, the last passenger pigeon alive anywhere, died in this zoo on 1 September 1914; the aviary she lived in still stands and is a national landmark.

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   Cincinnati Art Museum

   Founded in 1881 and, when its Romanesque building opened in Eden Park in 1886, the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies. More than 67,000 works span 6,000 years of history; the Cincinnati Wing added in 2003 gives the city's own artists a permanent home.

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   Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains

   A Greek Revival Catholic cathedral at Eighth and Plum Streets in downtown Cincinnati. It is the seat of the archdiocese of Cincinnati and is dedicated to Saint Peter, freed from his chains in Rome.

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   Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption

   A Catholic cathedral at Covington in Kentucky. Its front is modelled on Notre-Dame in Paris, and it holds one of the largest stained glass windows in the United States.

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   Isaac M. Wise Temple

   A Reform synagogue in Cincinnati, built in 1866 in the Moorish style. Isaac Mayer Wise, who founded Reform Judaism in the United States, led this congregation, and its twin minarets are a landmark of Plum Street.

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   Tyler Davidson Fountain

   A fountain on Fountain Square in Cincinnati. It was cast in Munich and shipped over in 1871, and its figure of a woman dispensing water serves as an emblem of the city.

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   Avondale

   A district of Cincinnati. It was developed as a wealthy suburb at the end of the nineteenth century, became the centre of the Black community in the twentieth, and now holds the university hospital and research institutions.

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   Newport Aquarium

   A public aquarium on the Ohio riverfront at Newport on the Levee, opened in 1999 and reached from downtown Cincinnati across the Purple People Bridge. Seamless acrylic tunnels carry visitors under sharks, and a rope bridge crosses a shark-ray pool.

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   Taft Museum of Art

   An art museum in Cincinnati. It occupies a house of the 1820s and shows work by Rembrandt and Turner together with the interiors of the house itself.

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    Spring Grove Cemetery

    A rural cemetery and accredited arboretum of 1845, and one of the largest cemeteries in the United States. Lakes, mausolea and several thousand labelled trees make it a botanical collection as much as a burial ground.

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   Over-the-Rhine

   One of the largest intact nineteenth-century urban districts in the United States, built by German immigrants who gave it the name — they crossed the canal to get home, and called it going over the Rhine. Music Hall and Findlay Market are in it; so is a decade of hard gentrification.

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   Downtown Cincinnati

   The downtown district of Cincinnati. It is laid out on a grid in the northern bend of the Ohio, with nineteenth-century commercial buildings surviving between the office towers.

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   Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal

   A former railway station in Cincinnati. It was built in art deco in 1933 with its concourse under a half-dome, and several museums now share the building.

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   William Howard Taft National Historic Site

   A national historic site in Cincinnati. William Howard Taft, president and later chief justice of the United States, was born and grew up in the house, which has been returned to its appearance in those years.

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   Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum

   A baseball museum in Cincinnati, attached to the ballpark. It covers the history of the Reds, who began in 1869 as the first professional club in the United States.

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   National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

   A museum on the Ohio riverfront at Cincinnati. It deals with the city's role as a gateway of the Underground Railroad, the far bank having been a slave state, and a slave pen used for that traffic has been moved here and reassembled inside.

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   Star Tower

   A high-rise at Covington in Kentucky across the river from Cincinnati. It stands on the bank of the Ohio and closes the southern end of the downtown skyline.

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   Mount Auburn Historic District

   A historic district in Cincinnati. Nineteenth-century houses stand on the hill above the downtown, and it records how the wealthy moved up there once the incline railways were built.

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   Fountain Square, Cincinnati

   The central square of downtown Cincinnati. The Tyler Davidson Fountain stands in the middle of it, and a skating rink is set up on it each winter.

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    Fort Washington

    The site of a late eighteenth-century fort in Cincinnati. It was built on the bank of the Ohio and is where the city began; only a marker remains.

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