Added: 01/27/2006 |
Surprise and extravagance of eau claire vacationEau Claire is a unique city to visit, boasting about the precious culture, knowledge and arts of the famous University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, astounding views of natural landscapes and awesome festivals in the Chippewa Valley.
The first minutes of your Eau Claire vacation will fascinate you with the city's charming appearance and scenic landscapes. The terrain of the city is characterized by the river valleys and steep slopes, lead from the center to the eastern and southern sections of the city. The lands, into which the urban area is currently expanding, are considerably hilly. Seventy churches create an unparallel architectural landscape of Eau Claire with their sparkling domes, stretching up to the sky. The Chippewa River Trail of thirty miles long starts Eau Claire downtown and runs for three point two miles within the city, making its way out to the city of Durant. The trail is free of charge to use and is available for outdoor activities, such as walking, biking in spring, summer and fall, and cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and in-line skating in winter.
An Eau Claire vacation in summer means a chance to participate in one of the chic city festivals in the Chippewa Valley. The French Annual Tube Float and Regalia is world's largest one-day tubing and float event. The Chippewa Valley Country Fest is an annual festival, featuring some of today's top-rated country music stars. The Rock Fest features some of the best rock bands from the 1970s up to today.
A visit to the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, is an indispensable condition for a complete Eau Claire vacation. Founded in 1916, the UW-Eau Claire continues to build its national reputation, based on the achievements of its students and faculty, being a nation's valuable store of knowledge, science and arts. The Foster Gallery at the UW-Eau Claire possesses a wide variety of art exhibitions, including works of faculty, BFA degree candidates and internationally known artists. An impressive diversity and number of exhibits display the past year's research by the studio faculty of the UW-Eau Claire Department of Art &Design, the photographic works of four most prominent UW-Eau Claire Art and Photo Journalism alumni, the art of topography and a lot more displays, ranging from common to extraordinary. The university has its own art collection of approximately seven hundred works, starting with the late 1960s.
Easiness and pleasure of Eau Claire shopping and dinning gracefully complement to any Eau Claire vacation. Eau Claire is a retail center for most of West Central Wisconsin. The city maintains several shopping centers for nearly three million square feet of stores and restaurants, comprising the eight hundred and seventy two thousand nine hundred square-foot Oakwood Mall. Major retailers, specialty shops, clothing stores, department stores and gift shops are located here. Perhaps, the most popular spot for meeting and socializing with restaurants, taverns and unique shops is Water Street, near the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Barstow Street is home to a quite original commercial district, featuring specialty apparel and gift stores, many restaurants and a nightclub.
To continue and to finish your research of Wisconsin area (it looks quite intriguing in many places), take a short Madison vacation; Madison is rated as one of the most beautiful cities in the US.
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