| Featured City: cleveland | Cleveland, a city on the northeast of Ohio, is located on the lakefront of Lake Erie and at the bayou of Cuyahoga River. The city was founded in 1796 by Moses Cleveland (1754-1806). In 1830 the canal connecting Lake Erie and Ohio River was open to navigation and in 1851 the railways of Cleveland was finished which made Cleveland become the cargo transferring center between Great Lakes and seacoast of Atlantic. From then on, its industry has developed fast and population has increased quickly.
In the suburb area cover a great many greenbelts. Cleveland is commonly called "Forest City", because its area of parks is about 7,500 hectare and over 1/3 of the suburb area.
The most famous resort in Cleveland is the Rock and Roll of Hall of Fame and Museum. It offers many permanent collections including many invaluable artifacts such as musical instrument and handwritten lyrics. Now in the Rock Hall, visitors can enjoy the earliest and most featured rock opera-Tommy which can bring them back to the days in 1969. The Rock Hall is built to tell later generations the history of rock and roll music and its influence to that era.
Another place of interest is the Cleveland Botanical Garden, which was built in 1930 and is the first urban garden in the country. All kinds of beautiful and featured garden, such as rose garden, Japanese Garden and Western Reserve Herb Society Garden which houses over 200 herb species, pull tourists' eyes on the scenery. To celebrate the garden's 75th anniversary, the newly-built crystal Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse was constructed in 2005. It is the home to two world's weakest ecosystems - spiny desert of Madagascar and cloud forest of Costa Rica. In each glasshouse, there are over 500 kinds of plants and 50 species of animals to show the opposite characteristics of them. Tall and upright Cleveland Museum of Art is standing nearby. The museum hold a great many priceless and porcelain artworks from various countries such as China, Japan, Greece, India, Korea¡. The museum often exhibits some collections with the same topic, for example the Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920, which shows the intercommunion between America and Europe from the year1880 to 1920 on art and culture.
Cleveland can play host to visitors with different budgets. For those budget-conscious tourists, the Cleveland Days Inn Airport with the lowest price is their best choice. Although the hotel is inexpensive, the service and facility it offers will not let you down. You can sunbathe on nearby beech, play golf or tennis and go fishing conveniently according to your interest. If you prefer middle class, Holiday Inn Select Cleveland-City CTR Lakeshore will meet your requirements. Located in the downtown area, the hotel can easily and quickly send you to famous resorts such as nearby Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, major business centers and sport's facilities you would like to go. If you don't care about the price, the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland, the only four-star hotel in Cleveland, is your choice. The spacious rooms, friendly service and enchanting scenery in Lake Erie will make you feel reluctant to tear yourself away from the place.
Cleveland is placed on the railway and highway main road connecting the northeast and Midwest of America, so it has many communications and affiliations with a lot of megalopolis. The waterway traffic in Cleveland is also rather developed. Its outer harbor is lake port mainly for cargo transference, while the inner harbor is river port only for Cleveland.
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