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Austin

Austin, the capital of Texas, is the fourth largest city of the state and sixteenth largest city of the United States. The city is trendy and hip but in a vintage way. It is a laid back as well as a high tech city .There are a number of major technology corporate offices located in the city, because of which it is nicknamed as “Silicon Hills”.

Culture of Austin

The official slogan of Austin is “The Live Music capital of the World”. One can hear the echo of live music from every corner of the city. Austin has the highest number of music venues in the country. Austin’s live music can be heard in various nightclubs situated at the sixth street and during an annual festival of music, film and multimedia known as South of Southwest. There are many venues of live performance theater such as Salvage Vanguard Theater, Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Arts on Real, Scottish Rite Children's Theater, Vortex Repertory Company and Hyde Park theatre.

People in Austin

People living in Austin are known as Austinites. The population of Austin is a mix of students, university professors, lobbyists, politician, state employees, white collar workers, blue collar workers and high tech workers.

Center for Art and culture

Worldwide Austin is recognized as one of the top creative cities that has a thriving culture and art scene. Austin is characterized by scores of artists, entrepreneurs, and musicians. It is among a few cities of the country, which has opera, theatre, symphony and ballet companies. It has more than 60 performance companies who perform different types of art form.

Austin has about 20 museums and dozens of art galleries. Some of the popular museums of the city are Blanton Museum of Art, Texas Memorial Museum, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Mexic-Arte Museum and George Washington Carver Museum. Some of the popular galleries are Fine Art Gallery of Rick Calzadilla, Gallery Lombardi, Images of Austin and In the Galleries Austin. Austin has a few popular historical places, which attract many tourists. Texas state capitol in downtown is a popular building, which stands 14 feet higher than US statehouse. Capitol Visitor Centre is also a great attraction for tourists.

Places to visit in Austin

Austin is famous for its vibrant night life and most of the tourists visit the place to enjoy the night life. Night clubs of Austin are famous becouse of the live bands, which perform there. Austin offers a good dinning experience to tourists. The eating style of Austin has undergone a great transformation in recent times. Previously, there were just three choices, chicken fried steak, Tex-Mex and Barbeque. Although they remain the holy trinity of Austin’s authentic dining scene, they are now simmered with sophesticated as well as international flair. The wall Street Journal has labelled Austin as an “up and coming culinary hot spot”. Tourist anyway enjoys this change in the eating style.

Connectivity to other places

Austin is well connected by air. Austin Bergstrom International Airport is one of the best airports in the world. Austin airport is served by ten airlines, which fly non-stop to 36 destinations in the US. Some of the city’s most popular stores and restaurants can be found at the airport and during happy hours, local bands perform live music.