| Dallas | ||
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| Salutation | Big D | |
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| State | United States of America | |
| Federated state | Texas | |
| Altitude | 131 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 997.10 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 6.300.006 (2009) | |
| Prefix tel | 1 214, 469, 972 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 75201–75398 | |
| Time zone | UTC-6 | |
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Dallas is a city of Texas.
To know
How to orient yourself
Dallas: full screen map.Neighborhoods
The center of Dallas (Downtown Dallas) includes the business district, full of skyscrapers, the "Arts District", or the museum area and the "West End Historic District", the historic core of Dallas that has preserved from past eras some buildings, especially warehouses, today used as hotels and night clubs.
With the exception of the latter ward, downtown Dallas empties at the end of business hours and remains a ghost town until offices reopen as is typical for many cities. North American.
The West End Historic District extends east of Dealey Plaza, the site that was the scene of the Kennedy assassination and north of Commerce street.
At the bottom of Commerce St, about 4km from Dealey Plaza, stands Deep Ellum (corruption of "Deep Elm Street"), a nightclub district with a long musical tradition behind it. It was originally an area of factories where in 1920 jazz artists began to perform who would later become famous as Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson is Leadbelly. The trend continued in the following decades; From 1980 onwards, cabaret e punk clubs like the 'Studio D', frequented by skinhead. At the end of the twentieth century the district declined mainly due to numerous episodes of violence which it was the scene of. People left and many clubs closed their doors. The neighborhood is deserted during the day but comes alive at night. Nonetheless, it is not recommended for beardless tourists or those unfamiliar with the Texan way of life.
Among the neighborhoods north of the center (Uptown) it should certainly be mentioned Oak Lawn, a residential area, one of the most prestigious in Dallas, best known for its chic restaurants along the Knox Henderson. Nightclubs, on the other hand, tend to cluster along McKinney Avenue, where it crosses the West Village, another chic area of Uptown where many live LGBT. Other nightclubs are in the Victory Park area also in Uptown but on the opposite side of the West Village, near the American Airlines Center where basketball and hockey games are held. The Uptown area remains the best choice for travelers to Dallas and new, rather expensive hotels are springing up there (2009).
In the district of East Dallas, located, as the name implies, east of Uptown and separated from it by Interstate 75, Upper and Lower Greenville, two well-known areas of evening and night entertainment, should be mentioned. While the first welcomes a clientele over 30 and with sophisticated needs, the second is frequented above all by young people with no frills.
How to get
By plane
The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is located between Dallas and Fort Worth and is about forty km from both centers. The drive from the airport to downtown Dallas typically takes an hour or more due to high traffic on the roads. The shuttle bus is the best way to get to the center because it will drop you right on the doorstep of your hotel. There are three companies authorized to carry out this type of service: City Shuttle, Go Yellow Checker Shuttle is Super Shuttle
At Dallas airport, Lufthansa, British Airways and KLM planes coming from respectively Frankfurt, London-Heathow and Amsterdam. For the rest, domestic flights are handled 80% by American Airlines. The shuttle bus is i
How to get around
By car
Like many US cities, Dallas lends itself to being navigated by car, although public transportation made a notable improvement with the introduction in 1996 of a light rail integrated into a suburban train network. The company that manages public transport is the "DART", abbreviation that stands for D.allas TOrea R.apid T.ransit.At the moment (year 2009) three light rail lines operate and others are under construction. If you plan to make frequent use of public transport you can buy a DART Rail Pass, valid for a day or more, otherwise a single ticket costs just over a dollar.
You can also get on a vintage tram that goes up and down McKinney Avenue for free, terminating at the Art District and Cityplace Station respectively. This line (M line) is run by a non-profit organization, the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority.
The car is only needed if you decide to stay in one of the cheap motels on the highways on the outskirts of Dallas but if you opt for a hotel in the center or Uptown, you are happy to do without it, especially considering the hassle of paying for the parking. cars on public roads. It must also be remembered that the hotels in the center, even if they have a parking space, charge for the parking space and in general the amount requested is not a trifle.
What see
- 6th floor museum in Dealey Plaza (The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza), 411, Elm Street. The museum is housed in the room on the sixth floor of the old "Texas School Book Depository building" where on November 22, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed to fire the bullets that killed John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The museum displays documents, films and objects that document the times and ways of that tragic event. Lee Oswald's rifle is displayed in a Plexiglas case
- Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St (Arts District). Opened in 2003, the Nasher Museum is considered one of the most interesting museums in Dallas. It is housed in a 5,000 m² building designed by the architect Renzo Piano. There are exhibited works by internationally renowned artists such as Constantin Brâncuşi, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin. The collections belonged to Raymond Nasher (1921 - 2007), a business man known for his passion for works of art.
- Meadows Museum (Meadows Museum), 5900 Bishop Blvd. The Meadows Museum is devoted almost entirely to Hispanic art and is second only to Madrid's museums in the number and importance of the works on display. There you can admire masterpieces bearing the signature of El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Miró, Sorolla, Zurbarán, Dalì, Mirò, Tapies and Picasso. There are also altarpieces from the Renaissance and later periods. The collections are a gift from the oil magnate Algur Hurtle Meadows (1899-1978) who fell in love with Hispanic art during a visit to the Prado museum. Among the approximately 700 pieces on display there are 200 sketches by Goya. Works by non-Hispanic artists include works by Rodin, Moore and Alberto Giacometti.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
To find out about the place that is in fashion or the news in the field of shows and entertainment in general, you can consult the Live Guides of the Dallas Morning News or the weekly Dallas Observer. The latter also has a Dallas restaurant search engine.
