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Nashville is an important religious and education center. Nashville is known as the "Southern Athens". Therefore, the Parthenon,
the only full-size replica of the Parthenon in Greece, was built in the city.
Nashville is a city filled with country music. It is reasonable to go to the Ryman Auditorium and the music museums
to learn the evolution of the country music, or to visit the Grand Ole Opry radio show, the General Jackson showboat,
many other museums and country music attractions in the Music Valley. If lucky enough, traveler may have chances to visit
the RCA Studio B where Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Lee Ann Rimes, Billy Ray Cyrus and others have recorded.
Nashville is also a good example of the fine combination of history and future, tradition and modernism, natural beauty
and synthetic charm. In the daytime, people tinged with the old southern history and tradition hustle and bustle
following the steps of the booming commerce. Meanwhile, Nashville provides something to almost everybody religion,
higher education, culture and arts, country music, forests and mountains, peaceful lakes, comfortable lodgings,
boots and cowboy hats, etc.
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