ABOUT DETROIT:

Detroit is known as the world’s traditional automotive center. The city is an important center for global trade with large international law firms having their offices in both Detroit and Windsor. Downtown Detroit has major offices for Electronic Data Systems, Visteon, Delphi, Ford Motor Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Touche, KPMG, Chrysler, GMAC, and OnStar.

In addition to the British and French who originally fought over the area, Detroit is home to many ethnicities. Immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Canada arrived in the mid 1800s to farm. Laborers from all over the southern states and Europe arrived in the early 1900s to work in the auto industry. More recently, Asian and Hispanic populations have increased. Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East.

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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT DETROIT:

-”Detroit” is French for “Of the strait” due to the fact we are located on a strait.

- Detroit is home to the first Van Gogh painting in a public collection in the U.S. at the Detroit Institute of Arts, “Self Portrait,” Vincent Van Gogh, 1887

- Built the nation’s first urban freeway, the Davison, in 1942

- Is home to the oldest state fair in the nation — the Michigan State Fair, first held in 1849

- Has country’s largest island park within a city — Belle Isle Park

- s the first city in the nation to assign individual telephone numbers in 1879.

- The Plymouth International Ice Sculpture Spectacular is the oldest and largest ice-carving event in the nation. Each winter, professional and amateur sculptors regularly turn blocks of ice into spectacular works of art.

- With more than 11,000 inland lakes and over 36,000 miles of streams, Michigan really is a water lover’s haven. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Detroit or any other part of the state – you’re never more than 6 miles away from water!

PLACES TO VISIT IN DETROIT:

- Belle Isle Park: Belle Isle is a 983-acre island park on the Detroit River. It’s a favorite picnic spot and is ideal for fishing and outdoor recreation. The park features a nature center, tennis courts, beach areas, a waterslide, and playgrounds, and it’s connected to the city by bridge. Belle Isle boasts spectacular views of the downtown skyline.

- Motown Historical Museum

- Detroit Institute of Arts: considered to house one of the best art collections in the United States, the Institute showcases everything from mummies to modern art and African masks to Monets in its outstanding collection of over 65,000 works.

- Detroit Historical Museum: the Motor City Exhibition, where visitors see how a Cadillac is assembled, is just one of the many interesting displays at this museum dedicated to telling the story of Detroit.

- Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory

- New Detroit Science Center: science is made fun and exciting in this hands-on, interactive science center, which introduces science, engineering and technology in ways that children can understand.

- GM Renaissance Center: multi-towered skyscraper is the tallest building in Detroit that features an observation tower on the 72nd floor.

- Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History: museum serves to document, preserve and educate the public on the history, life and culture of African Americans.

- Comerica Park: home of the Detroit Tigers, this is no ordinary ballpark. Combination theme park, ballpark, and baseball museum, it features huge statues of tigers, a Ferris wheel, carousel (with tigers, of course) and a fountain that celebrates each home run with colored lights and music.

- Greektown

- Ambassador Bridge: at the time this bridge was built in 1929 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.

- Detroit Cultural Center Historic District: this area includes Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Science Center, the Detroit Public Library and Wayne State University.

- Cranbrook Art Museum: Cranbrook Art Museum’s collection of contemporary art includes works that represent a variety of movements and schools, including Art Deco, Arts & Crafts, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. It especially highlights the ways that highly-respected Cranbrook has influenced design, art, and architecture in the 20th century.

- Edsel and Eleanor Ford House: this splendid, tasteful mansion overlooks Lake St. Clair. Edsel, the only child of Henry and Clara Ford, and his wife Eleanor built this home in 1929, and it remains today as it was back then – an oversized version of an English country home.

- Greenfield Village, an outdoor re-creation of a 19th-century town, pays tribute to the American people who followed their dreams and made life-changing discoveries along the way. Within the 80-acre site, you’ll find historical replicas of the bicycle shop where the Wright brothers created the first airplane.

- Meadow Brook Hall: this extravagant “castle,” built during the Roaring ’20s for Matilda Dodge, widow of John Dodge, is open to the public. Meadow Brook features 110 rooms, and most of them still present period decor and priceless art and furnishings. The home was inspired by traditional English Tudor country homes.