The neighborhoods
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Fells Point
Southeast waterfront
Cobblestones, a deepwater harbor, and the oldest surviving street plan in the city.
Canton
East along the water
A canning and shipping waterfront that turned residential, arranged around a square.
Federal Hill
South of the Inner Harbor
Rowhouse streets under a park with the straight-on view of the harbor.
Mount Vernon
North of downtown
The monument, the conservatory, the art museum and the central library, on four squares.
Charles Village
North, around Homewood
Painted rowhouses and the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.
Hampden
Northwest, above the Jones Falls
A mill village that kept its main street and turned it into the Avenue.
Worth going to see
The full list →- Fort McHenry
- Locust PointThe star fort that held through the night of 13–14 September 1814, while Francis Scott Key watched from a ship in the harbor and wrote what became the national anthem. A National Monument and Historic Shrine — the only place in the country carrying both designations.
- The Walters Art Museum
- Mount VernonA collection spanning several millennia, assembled by two generations of one family and given to the city. General admission has long been free.
- The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Charles Village edgeHolds one of the largest Matisse collections anywhere. Admission to the permanent collection has long been free.
- The National Aquarium
- Inner HarborThe city's most-visited attraction, on the water in the middle of downtown.
- The Washington Monument
- Mount VernonBegun in 1815 and finished in 1829, and the reason the four squares around it are laid out the way they are. It can be climbed.
Getting around
The harbor reaches into the middle of the city, so water is an obstacle as often as it is a view. There is a subway line, a light rail line, a bus network and a free downtown bus, plus commuter rail to Washington and a direct train to the airport. How it all fits together →
