Here I am talking about a city well known as a name, but probably more than you know it's an American city famous for music (especially country) do not even know what state it is.
Probably many people think of Nashville as the name association with a famous film by Robert Altman (Nashville just !!!!) winner among other things, an Academy Award for best song "J'm easy" (who does not know ... if you feel the ground ... all) by Keith Carradine (among other interpreter also the film !!!!).
Well this was one of the stops on my last trip to USA ... another myth that I absolutely had to realize as I chose to wander around the Tennessee, was precisely that hosts this city!

The city is famous not only for music, for its strong football team that the Titans and the Predators hockey ... even to hear these names that almost everything comes from those siiii to think ... ... .!!!!!

I had the good fortune to arrive in this city ', which like all cities in Tennessee is located on the banks of a navigable river, well, the Cumberland, July 4 ... that as known to Americans is a big party. ... Even great ... the Independence Day and knowing the patriotism of Americans can not imagine what they can do at a party in this "city of music."

The central part of town (which is the usual course that covers a vast territory, even if it is not straabitata - unless I am mistaken about 600,000 inhabitants) is concentrated in the most beautiful along the river. ... On one side and the dowtown central area, on the other the enormous football stadium dedicated to the City sports idols Coliseum. I assure you that even if you are not football fans to visit the stadium by a certain emotion. ... Is monumental and I am sorry for not having been able to see full of people at a party (the time is always a tyrant in travel! !)

The dowtown Nashville is definitely a human scale: a mixture of brand new buildings (many of which we are catching up with old high-rises) to join a neo-classical architecture (plagiarized one ... of course) with some reference to ancient Greece ( the Parthenon. ... For example, the seat of, call, city hall, just the name, you can well understand that you copied the style of the famous Parthenon in Athens). Overall, however, very pleasant, which is around half an hour later there appears be there always.
I was staying (an exceptional luck recovered from one of the famous little books of coupons found in the Tourist Information) at the Best Western Downtown where we spent two nights in a quadruple room with a wonderful $ 60 a night and a great breakfast!!

As said I am come to Nashville on 4 July and for the occasion had been set up a mega stage on the banks of the Cumberland, in the Coliseum to the opposite shore, where for the evening was planned a mega musical show live, with a large number of famous country singers. Difficult to describe the grandeur of the whole, colored lights and flags stars and stripes galore ... a warm evening in South ... with thousands of people sitting on the lawn in front of the park. Besides the wonderful magic of the evening just watching the Americans in these occasions: wonderful!! Thus, country ... so American! Think back in the afternoon was a prelude to the evening concert and already many people are preparing on grass organizing "American" frigoroni laptop full of iced drinks, heaps of snacks to nibble on, and indeed even someone who has come well equipped and has an impromptu BBQ at all points (they are fantastic !!!!). whole families, youth groups, seniors, children. ... incredible mass participation in these events!!

The evening concert was also broadcast live on several TV ... the major American orchestra accompanying the singers was the Philharmonic Nashville (majestic )!!!! After 3 hours of concert that has been inhabited many country singers on stage (I do not I knew no one ... but I must say that the day after I had stocked up on their CD), the evening concluded with an hour (uninterrupted) of fireworks to the music ... accompanied by the Philharmonic and a play of light approntanto football stadium!! Wow ... sorry but still talking about it makes me shiver ... an exciting evening!! I even a little 'touched when a singer of color, beautiful voice, she sang the American national anthem, and thousands of people stood up and with his right hand on his heart sang (in my all. ... Except us three ) anthem ... wow ... a very unusual picture for us Italians, but very touching, I assure you!!

Returning to Nashville, where the premises are a lot you can hear great live music and food. ... You'll be spoiled for choice. I personally have made an evening at 'Hard Rock Cafe (a local worship in the United States). ... Nashville is recognizable because the front is a huge guitar that turns on itself. The following evening I was at the Wildhorse Saloon, a famous local country ... where you can eat, listen to a new generation of country music that stand out the first steps and where you are involved in those country ballads that only in the movies seen. The location is beautiful and that they can see cows and horses along with the fake sitting at the bar patrons, and where everything is very country!! It is not expecting much in the food ... and you pay $ 4 to enter, but not you need to eat .... The place is very big and there are two large bars on the ground floor and one gallery in one!

Another famous attraction in Nashville is the Grand Ole Opry and its mammoth Gaylord Opryland auditorium (4,400 seats) which is nothing more than a famous country music radio program that airs live every week since 1943, and from which were launched the biggest stars of country music (a classic example of Johnny Cash and a thousand others). To attend a broadcast should book months in advance because it is always packed. I am just visiting the auditorium (and the theater where they stayed until 1974, the Ryman Auditorium which is located in downtown Nashville ... very nice) which among other things is outside Nashville and is part of a huge complex with hotels, resorts and shopping center with a mega mega outlet (for those who love shopping).

If you love music there is also the Country Music Hall of Fame, which I have not seen because I was reaching the saturation of country music (although appreciated).

The outskirts of Nashville, if you love American history and the history of slaves, interesting The Hermitage - that is the home of President Andrew Jackson, complete with grave.
For some residences to the most romantic "Gone With the Wind" look like the Belle Meade Plantation, which brings us back to the cotton plantations where slaves worked the poor as much "loved" by the Southern people, or the Belmont Mansion, especially for its beautiful gardens.

Well I would say that the little things and spend a couple of days filled with beautiful Nashville has ... and I will tell you that I enjoyed a lot and by the way is one of several places that have remained etched in my daughter of 9 years, which at Back to school has done nothing but tell the classic question, "the moment of your vacation that you liked the most," the Independence Day July 4th in Nashville (think he even put in front of Disney Parks ... .. unbelievable but true !!!!!)