seattle
Entdecke Routen, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Reiseführer in Seattle.
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Pike Place Market, Elliott Bay & Seattles Küstenseele
Seattle — die größte Stadt im pazifischen Nordwesten, mit etwa 750.000 Einwohnern in der Stadt und 4,0 Millionen in der Großraum-Seattle-Metropolregion — der Heimatort von Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom und praktisch jedem anderen großen pazifisch-nordwestlichen Unternehmen.
Chinatown-International District & Seattles Asiatisch-Amerikanisches Erbe
Seattles Chinatown-International District (CID) ist eine der ältesten und vielfältigsten asiatisch-amerikanischen Gemeinschaften in den USA, Heimat chinesischer, japanischer, philippinischer, vietnamesischer, koreanischer und südostasiatischer Gemeinschaften, deren Geschichte in Seattle auf die chinesischen Arbeiter zurückgeht, die in den 1860er-1880er Jahren die transkontinentale Eisenbahn bauten.
Pioneer Square, der Underground & Seattles Goldrausch-Geschichte
Pioneer Square — das historische Romanesque-Revival-Viertel am südlichen Ende der Innenstadt von Seattle, das ursprüngliche Handelszentrum der Stadt nach dem Großen Seattle-Brand von 1889 — ist das historisch bedeutsamste Viertel Seattles und enthält die größte Konzentration viktorianischer Handelsarchitektur im Pazifischen Nordwesten.
Seattles Gastronomieszene — Pazifische Meeresfrüchte, Craft Beer & Farm-to-Table
Seattle's food culture (the most farm-to-table-focused major food city on the American West Coast, rooted in the extraordinary diversity of Pacific Northwest ingredients — the wild Alaskan salmon (chinook/king, sockeye/red, coho/silver, pink, and chum), the Dungeness crab, the Pacific oysters (the Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida — the only oyster species native to the Pacific Coast of North America) and the farmed Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas, introduced from Japan in the 1920s)), the Rainier cherries, the Walla Walla sweet onions, and the extraordinary variety of wild mushrooms): Seattle is the only major American city where the farmers' market (Pike Place Market) is also the primary tourist attraction.
Grunge, Jimi Hendrix & Seattles Musikalisches Erbe
Seattle hat einen überproportionalen Anteil der einflussreichsten Musiker in der Geschichte der amerikanischen Populärmusik hervorgebracht — Jimi Hendrix (der größte Rock-Gitarrist der Geschichte, geboren im Central District von Seattle im Jahr 1942), Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, Layne Staley — und die Musikkultur der Stadt ist untrennbar mit ihrer Identität verbunden.
Boeing, das Flugmuseum & Seattles Luftfahrterbe
Boeing (The Boeing Company — the largest aerospace and defense company in the world by revenue in most years, founded on July 15, 1916 by William Edward Boeing (1881-1956) in a red barn on the southern shore of Lake Union in Seattle — the company that has dominated commercial aircraft manufacturing for 80 years and that is more responsible than any other single company for the shape of modern air travel): Seattle's relationship with Boeing (the company that employed more than 100,000 people in the Seattle area at its peak, that was the largest private employer in Washington State for most of the 20th century, and that continues to build the 737, 747, 767, and 777 aircraft at its manufacturing facilities in Renton and Everett) is more defining than any other company-city relationship in American industrial history.
Universitätsviertel, Fremont & Seattles Kreative Viertel
The University District ('The Ave' — University Way NE, the main commercial street of the University District, running north-south through the neighbourhood east of the University of Washington campus) and the surrounding neighbourhoods (Fremont, Wallingford, Ballard, and Green Lake) form the most distinctively Pacific Northwest residential culture in Seattle — the neighbourhoods where the city's outdoor-oriented, coffee-saturated, independent-minded character is most concentrated.
Lake Washington, Arboretum & Seattles Outdoor-Leben
Seattle's outdoor culture (the most outdoors-oriented major American city after Denver, the city where more residents per capita participate in hiking, mountaineering, kayaking, cycling, and skiing than any other large city in the United States): the combination of immediate access to Puget Sound (kayaking, sailing, rowing), Lake Washington (the 87 km² (33.6 sq mile) freshwater lake on Seattle's eastern border), the Burke-Gilman Trail (the 27 km (17 mile) bicycle and pedestrian trail from Ballard through the University District to Kenmore), and the proximity of the Cascades and Olympic mountains defines Seattle's outdoor character.
Mount Rainier, Olympic & die Naturwunder des Pazifischen Nordwestens
Seattle ist von einigen der spektakulärsten Naturlandschaften Nordamerikas umgeben — innerhalb von 90 Fahrminuten von der Stadt liegen der Mount-Rainier-Nationalpark, der Olympic National Park (UNESCO-Welterbe) und die Vulkangipfel der North Cascades.