Charlotte
143 miles SW of Raleigh; 91 miles S of Winston-Salem
In the past decade or so, Charlotte has been sprouting skyscrapers, including the 40-story, trapezoidal steel-and-glass tower of the Bank of America Plaza and the stunning 46-story Hearst Tower, which was completed in 2002. The city has attracted and taken to heart a professional football team — the Carolina Panthers — that was good enough to get to the Super Bowl in 2004 and nearly pull off … Continue reading →
Charlotte Travel Guide
Excerpted from Frommer's The Carolinas and Georgia, 8th Edition, © 2008, Whatsonwhen Limited and Wiley Publishing, Inc.
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