New York & the Mid-Atlantic Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

Rittenhouse Square

This elegant square, with its wading pool

and fine statues, marks the heart of the

prosperous Center City neighborhood.

Several excellent restaurants with

sidewalk seating in warm weather line

the east side of the square – a great spot

for people watching.

The Walk » It’s only 10 steps or so from the

southeast corner of the square to the next stop.

Philadelphia Art Alliance

Housed in a Gilded Age mansion, one

of the few buildings on the square

to escape the skyscraper age, is the

Philadelphia Art Alliance (%216-646-

4302; http://www.philartalliance.org; 261 S 18th St;

adult/child $5/3; h11am-5pm Tue-Fri, from

noon Sat & Sun). Its exhibits of modern

crafts are always interesting.

The Walk » Walk back through the square and

exit on the west side onto Locust St. Turn left on

21st before making a left on Delancey Pl.

Rosenbach Museum & Library

This three-story brick townhouse is an

unassuming repository of treasures and

a bibliophiles dream. The collection

includes 30,000 rare books, drawings

by William Blake, James Joyce’s original

manuscript for Ulysses and a re-creation

of the modernist poet Marianne Moore’s

Greenwich Village apartment.

The Walk » Head east on Delancey Pl for

three blocks, then left on 17th St and then right

on Spruce. The modern Kimmel Center for

the Performing Arts is on the right side of the

intersection at Broad St.

Avenue of the Arts

Tours of Kimmel Center for the

Performing Arts (%215-790-5800; http://www.

kimmelcenter.org; cnr Broad & Spruce Sts),

Philadelphia’s most active center for

fine music, are available at 1pm Tuesday

through Saturday. When walking north

on Broad St (aka ‘the Avenue of the

Arts’), look up. The facades of these

early incarnations of skyscrapers have

signature flourishes like terracotta

roofs and elaborate filigree work

Take this walk on Trips

STRETCH..

YOUR.LEGS

9 b

Start/Finish: Rittenhouse

Square

Distance: 2.8 miles

Duration: 2.5 hours

PHILADELPHIA

Historic.Philadelphia,.so.well-known,.

lives.side.by.side.with.contemporary.

skyscrapers.and.fashionable.

squares..This.walk.takes.in.the.old.

and.the.new,.which.often.means.

regal-looking.spaces.and.structures.

from.centuries.past.revitalized.for.a.

vibrant.modern.city..