More than any other city of Philadelphia is exemplary in terms of the history of American architecture. Main Street in Manayunke among the ten best streets in America, thanks to their homes of the XIX century, which has shops, art galleries and pubs.
Here thriving arts, primarily in the theater and the performing center built on the Avenue of Art. And on Broad Street Philadelphia Orchestra settled, Ballet of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Opera, as well as jazz and studio drama and musical theater. The city thrives cooking, and the locals love to delicacies such as cheese steaks, great sandwiches and hot Bretseli with salt.
In Philadelphia, the headquarters was established in 1846 the railway company Pennsylvania Railroad. This company is owned by an extensive network of railways in the north-eastern United States. During his heyday the largest railway company, it controlled about 16,000 km of railways, and worked there up to 250 thousand workers and employees. In 1968 the company experienced a merger with the Central Railroad of New York and ceased to exist.