Welcome to
Philadelphia
United States
Philadelphia is the city where America was born — Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell sit at the heart of a place that drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and that history is woven into every neighbourhood from Old City to Society Hill. But Philadelphia is far more than a history lesson: it is a city of exceptional museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art with its famous Rocky steps, and the Barnes Foundation with one of the greatest private art collections ever assembled. The food culture — the cheesesteak wars of Pat's versus Geno's, the extraordinary Reading Terminal Market, the Vietnamese restaurants of Washington Avenue, and the Italian Market of South Philly — makes it one of America's most underrated eating cities.
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Barnes Foundation
One of the world's great art collections, displayed exactly as its obsessive founder intended.
Eastern State Penitentiary
A crumbling 19th-century prison where solitary confinement was born and history haunts every cell.
Elfreth's Alley
The oldest continuously inhabited residential street in the United States, unchanged for 300 years.
Independence Hall
The room where the United States was literally invented, still standing.
Liberty Bell
America's most famous cracked bell, carrying 270 years of revolutionary weight.
National Constitution Center
The story of American democracy told in one unmissable building.
Penn Museum
One of the world's great archaeology museums, hiding in plain sight in West Philly.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
One of America's great art museums, anchored by those famous Rocky steps.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
A sprawling mosaic labyrinth built by one obsessive artist over decades.
Reading Terminal Market
A 130-year-old covered market where Philly's food obsession lives and breathes.
Why should you go to Philadelphia
What other travelers have to say, based on real reviews.