Atlanta is the largest city in Georgia, a fast-growing metro of over 6 million with around 500,000 in the city proper, founded in 1837 as the rail hub “Terminus” and rebuilt after the Civil War before emerging as a centre of the US civil-rights movement. Its compact core runs from Downtown’s Centennial Olympic Park and the Georgia Aquarium to Midtown’s High Museum of Art, Fox Theatre and Piedmont Park, with the BeltLine trail threading old rail corridors into buzzy neighbourhoods of bars, venues and street art. History is front and centre at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, while big-ticket sport and concerts fill Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena. Expect Southern cooking alongside a globe-spanning food scene and a music lineage from soul and hip-hop (Outkast, trap) to rock and metal in venues like The Masquerade. Getting in and around is straightforward via MARTA rail and Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, one of the world’s busiest.

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Brent Hinds Memorial Intersection

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