Buildings Lit Up At Dusk, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Great Big Canvas features many outstanding images of this spectacular Mississippi riverfront city that lies on both banks of the Mississippi near its confluence with the Minnesota River. These images in any size-canvas-wrapped or framed-will satisfy even the most discriminating interior decorator.
Together Minneapolis and St. Paul (the state's capital) are known as the Twin Cities. The city has an abundance of lakes and wetlands and is connected to the Chain of Lakes by a series of parkways. Its many lakes have earned it the nickname, the City of Lakes. It is the main center of commerce between Chicago and Seattle, and its skyline boasts of such architecture as the IDS Tower, the Wells Fargo Center, the Target Plaza, the Hennepin County Government Center, and the Rand Tower. Because of the abundance of waterways, some of the nation's richest mills were established there: Pillsbury, General Mills, and Washburn-Crosby.
The Twin Cities offers visitors a wide selection of entertainment and cultural activities-from the famous 4.2 million-square-foot Mall of America to the Geometry Center. There are nightclubs, restaurants, theater, and world-class museums. Other attractions include Frank Lloyd Wright's Malcolm E. Willey House, the Bell Museum of Natural History, the Cathedral of St. Paul, the Minneapolis and Como Zoos, Fort Snelling, the History Center Museum, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Museum of Russian Art. And the Minneapolis Skyways allow visitors to traverse five miles without weathering the rain and cold.
