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• North Carolina
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Country of sea and mountains, North Carolina was described as “the most beautiful land under the sky” by two English explorers who discovered it more than 400 years ago. |
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Capital : Raleigh
Surface : 136,420 km²
Population : 7,425,183
Charlotte : 395,934
Raleigh : 207,951
Greensboro : 183,521
Winston-Salem : 143,485 |
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| State Attractions |
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Biltmore House Blue Ridge Trail Cape Hatteras Charlotte Cherokee Village
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| | | | Cape Hatteras Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the External Benches of North Carolina are fantastically extended of 120 km sands and waters off the coast, and an ideal territory for camping, fishing and swimming. You will discover the lighthouse built in 1793. In Manteo, Fort Raleigh is where the first attempt to make an English establishment in the New World took place. In Kitty Hawk visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial, where the Wright brothers did their first flight tests. A monument commemorates their success in 1903. | | | Raleigh The capital, remarkable by its Greek-styled Capitol, surrounded by a collection of heroic statues of the State and country's history. Raleigh was the birthplace of president Andrew Jackson. | |
| Charlotte Established in 1740 in an area favourable for the culture of cotton, Charlotte quickly became the principal center of textile production of the United States, thanks to the hydroelectric energy developed on the River Catwaba.
| | | Wilmington We will visit here the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial, located at the south of the city. | | 
| Ashville In the mountainous west, Asheville is the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ashville is where the astonishing Biltmore House and its gardens stand - a property of the Vanderbilts. The house, built in 1895, with a French style, includes 365 parts.
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| Chimney Rock, 40 km in south-east, is a granite monolith of 96 m, and from its top we can view a superb panorama towards the countryside.
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| Chapel Hill, in the center of the State, is the city of the country's oldest university, the University of North Carolina. In Cherokee, not far from the gate of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a reconstitution of the Indian village Oconaluftee and the museum of the Cherokee Indians are to be visited. Close to Winston-Salem, in the North-West, a 18th century Morave Village is located, reconstructed in the town of Old-Salem, as well as the largest furnishing market of the country, in High Point. | | | | | | Photos : NC Division of tourism |
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