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St. LOUIS
St.
Louis lies at the heart of Greater St. Louis, a metropolitan
area of nearly three million people in Missouri and Illinois.
The
city was founded in 1764 just south of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers by colonial French traders.
The
average annual temperature is 56.3 °F (13.5 °C), average precipitation is 38.9 inches (990 mm).
The Gateway
Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial,
is easily the city's best-known landmark, as well as a popular
tourist site. This Memorial commemorates the acquisition and
settlement by the citizens of the United States of America of
all of the lands west of the Mississippi River that are part
of the nation today.
There
are many museums and attractions in the city. The St.
Louis Art Museum, located in the City's premier park, Forest
Park, and dating from the 1904 World's Fair, houses an
impressive array of modern art and ancient artifacts, with an
extensive collection of master works of several centuries,
including paintings by Rembrandt, Van
Gogh, Pissarro, Picasso,
and many others. The privately owned City
Museum offers a variety of interesting exhibits, including
several large faux caves and a huge outdoor playground.
It also serves as a meeting point for St. Louis's young arts
scene.
There
are several notable churches in the city, including the Cathedral
Basilica of St. Louis (more commonly known as "the
New Cathedral"), a large Roman
Catholic cathedral designed in the Byzantine and Romanesque styles. The interior is decorated with mosaics,
the largest mosaic collection in the world.
The Basilica
of St. Louis, King of France (1834) (more commonly known
as the "Old Cathedral") is the oldest Roman Catholic
cathedral west of the Mississippi River. The Old Cathedral is
located adjacent to the Jefferson
National Expansion Memorial. Among other architecturally
significant churches in the St. Louis region are the abbey
church of Saint
Louis Abbey, whose distinctive architectural style
garnered multiple awards at the time of its completion in
1962, and St.
Francis de Sales Oratory, a neo-Gothic church completed in
1908 and the largest church in the city aside from the
Cathedral Basilica.
The Saint
Louis Zoological Park, one of the oldest and largest
free-admission zoos in the country, is home to an Insectarium,
River's Edge, Fragile Forest and more.
St.
Louis is the host to the Missouri
Botanical Garden, one of the oldest botanical institutions
in the United States and a National Historic Landmark.
Featuring 79 acres of horticultural displays, the Gardens have
been serving the St. Louis region since their 1859 foundation
by Henry Shaw.
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