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INDIANA - Last minute travel specials to Indianapolis,
Evansville, Fort Wayne, and South Bend.
Indianapolis - Indianapolis has long enjoyed fame
among racing fans, who flock to this capital city every May
for the Indianapolis 500. Thanks to a recent large development
effort, Indianapolis now boasts several new attractions aimed
at families. The city’s unhurried pace and spacious layout
encourages visitors to relax and enjoy the sites.
The new Indianapolis downtown features shops, entertainment
centers and museums. The new Circle Centre shopping and entertainment
complex opened in 1995 and draws visitors from around the
region. Also recently completed is the Indianapolis Arts garden,
an eight-story glass rotunda lit by fairy lights and suspended
in mid-air over the busy Washington and Illinois intersection.
The Arts garden is a performance and exhibition space for
all of Indiana, and it is connected to the Circle Centre and
several downtown hotels. Additionally, Indianapolis has added
several new sports stadiums and hotels, to keep up with such
events as the Pan-American games and Olympic trials. The downtown
landmarks have all been remodeled into new shopping and entertainment
centers.
Indianapolis boasts several excellent museums, including
one of the best children’s museums in the country. The Children’s
Museum of Indiana is a massive space designed entirely for
kids, featuring theatres and a planetarium. The Eiteljorg
Museum of American Indians and Western Art is quite large
and is dedicated entirely to native arts and buildings. The
Indianapolis Museum of Art has art from all periods; sculpture
and botanical gardens surround the entire museum with a lake
on the grounds. The new Indianapolis Zoo features hundreds
of plants and animals in a lovely setting just outside of
town.
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