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Nashville proudly
calls itself “Music City, USA”
and the home of country music. Some
of the greatest names in the music industry today got their start here on the
stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Broadcasts
have been live, every Saturday night, since late 1927.
This great showcase for country-western music is still going, but now in
the new Opryland U.S.A. Complex. Also
attracting visitors from all over the world is the Opryland Theme Park, the
immense Opryland Hotel, and the first-rate Country Music Hall of Fame.
Located nearby is the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s home.
An almost exact reproduction of Athens’s Parthenon sits in a beautiful
Nashville park. There were more than 400 military engagements in Tennessee during the Civil War. Among the sites you might want to visit are Fort Donelson National Battlefield Park (where Union forces won their first major victory), the Shiloh National Military Park (where 24,000 soldiers died in one of the war’s most savage battles), and the Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery.
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Many
tours are available to visitors.
Choco-holics must
make a stop at the Milky Way mansion.