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Milwaukee

Milwaukee, the State's largest city, extends itself on the meridional bank of Lake Michigan, in the exact place where the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic Rivers flow into the Milwaukee Bay. It's an elegant port, once had been the fur traders commercial center. Milwaukee also happens to be the biggest Germano-american cultural center in the USA.

In the place of a counter founded in 1818 by the Frenchman Salomon Juneau, colonists of Central and Septentrional European origins stared to came in 1830, giving birth little by little to what is today the city of Milwaukee. The presence of a big number of German immigrants give the city its character and made of it a highly-regarded Germanism center of the USA.

The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church was the last important building made by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Its blue-tiled dome elevates to a height of 14 meters.

The Milwaukee Public Museum retraces the continent's first ages, the arrival of mankind and the birth of new civilizations.

Milwaukee is the capital of the beer industry. We can visit the Millers breweries and the Caves Museum.

You can also go on a tour on Lake Michigan in a car-ferry, in Ludington.

Madison

Madison, capital of the State, about 120 km to the west, is home to the University of Wisconsin. Its Capitol, second-largest after DC, is the only one in America which possesses a granite dome.

New Glarus, a charming Swiss colony, is about half a day away from Madison.

In Spring Green we will find Taliesin, the property of Frank Lloyd Wright, today transformed in a national domain.

in Eagle, southeast of the State, Old World Wisconsin is one of the biggest open air museum in Midwest, comprising about fifty authentical buildings of the 19th century.

In Dog's Prairie, at the eastern edge, along the borders between Wisconsin and Iowa, we can find one of the State's oldest property : the Villa Louis, built by the Dousman family, who became rich thanks to fur trading business.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in the north of the State,on Lake Superior, is a magnificent archipelago of 22 islands in the wideness of Bayfield banks. A paradise of kayak canoes, sailing and fishing.

Photo Credits: WI Department of Tourism

Greater Milwaukee CVB -

Friends of Old World Wisconsin