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THE MILE HIGH CITY E N G L I S H Welcome! Arts, Culture, Attractions, Maps VISITDENVER.com VISIT DENVER, The Convention & Visitors Bureau 1575 California Street • Tourist Information Center Denver, Colorado USA 80202 2016 DENVER The Mile High City Denver is an outdoor city with 300 days Denver’s arts and culture scene is thriv- of sunshine, brilliant blue skies and ing, including world-class museums, breathtaking mountain scenery. Founded neighborhood art districts, astonishing in 1858 as a gold mining camp, Denver is public art displays and an impressive located at the base of the majestic offering of art exhibits and Tony Award- Rocky Mountains, 5,280 feet (1.6 km) winning stage productions. above sea level – exactly one mile high. In Denver, you are never far from nature. Much of the city’s Grab your walking shoes, or hop on a rich Western Denver B-cycle, the citywide bicycle history has been sharing preserved in the program, to architecture and explore in museums, which Denver’s vividly illustrate 200 parks or the stories of 85 miles entrepreneurs, (137 km) of heroes and hero- bike and ines of the past. When gold was discov- pedestrian ered, Denver became a boomtown filled trails that with fortune seekers, wagon trains and connect the cowboys. city’s neighborhoods. Tee off at one of the metro area golf courses, or watch Today, Denver is Colorado’s vibrant capi- one of the seven professional sports tal city with urban adventure around teams that play throughout the year – every corner, starting with its walkable including soccer, football, hockey, downtown and the 16th Street Mall – a basketball and baseball.
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