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DESTINATIONS ATLANTA | THE US


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Atlanta is a gateway into the history, heritage and music of the Deep South, discovers David Whitley


he sprawling de facto capital of the south might not make for the most obvious US city break. Atlanta can be intimidatingly large, and doesn’t have the good looks of San Francisco or Boston, or the hip cachet of Austin or Portland. But what it does have is a genuinely impressive


array of top-quality attractions, and an important place in American history, particularly when it comes to the civil rights movement. The city is changing too. Several new developments have made it less car-centric, bringing slices of walkable urban cool to a city that was always happy to be a loose collection of suburbs. But Atlanta is also well placed for road trips of


the American South, whether you fancy mountain retreats, the music-thrumming cities of Tennessee, handsome coastal towns or historic landmarks.


WHAT TO DO You could easily visit Atlanta without bothering to make a checklist of attractions – the quality and variety is superb. But priority should be given to the Martin Luther King National Historic Park (nps.gov/malu), a collection of buildings and museums linked to the civil rights leader. The Visitor Center and King Center, in particular, do a brilliant job of describing the key events of the civil rights struggle, and even today can trigger genuine


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