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With so much history and diversity tied into its culture, the St. Louis area offers entertaining attractions that cater to everyone, regardless of age or taste. Whether your interests lie in architecture, music, history, botany, food or nightlife, you’re bound to find your niche in St. Louis. At six hundred and thirty feet tall, the nations tallest monument, the Gateway Arch is both a tribute to Thomas Jefferson and a monument to westward expansion. An elevator ride to the top affords a spectacular view of the St. Louis metropolitan area and is a great way to catch a first glimpse of this remarkable city. A tour of the Anheuser-Busch brewery provides an exciting behind-the-scenes look at how the local beer producer creates the products that make it the biggest and best brewery in the world. And just up the street is the historic Soulard Market, an open-air farmers’ market that since 1838 has provided area residents with fresh fruits and vegetables. The Missouri Botanical Garden, one of the world’s leading botanical research facilities, features not only species of plants native to the St. Louis region, but also Japanese, English and Chinese gardens as well as an exotic array of flowers, shrubs and trees. The world’s largest collection of mosaics, which took three generations and 20 different artists to complete, can be found at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, an awe-inspiring Romanesque and Byzantine-style Roman Catholic church, whose construction began in 1907. Just across the river from downtown St. Louis, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Midwest. The site preserves the remains of the most sophisticaed prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico, the Mississippians, within a 2,200 acre tract. St. Louis also has a number of neighborhoods that are home to some of the region’s finest restaurants, as well as exciting shops and hip nightlife.
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