Mobile
The City of Six Flags
General Information
Other Name: The Port City or Azalea City , District: Alabama, State: South, United States of America
Area: 159.4 sq mi
Languages Spoken: English
Long Distance Code: -
Importance: Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival celebrations in the United States.
Best Time to Visit: - to - and -
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Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County.As one of the Gulf Coast`s cultural centers, Mobile houses several art museums, a symphony orchestra, a professional opera, a professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture.Location
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Mild sub tropical.
This magnificently restored home is adorned with period furnishings, artwork, and decor. The twenty-room mansion includes lovely double parlors, a lavish dining room, stenciled moldings, and grounds with Mobile''s trademark live oaks and azaleas.
It include USS DRUM, The USS Alabama, B-52 Bomber; Calamity Jane, Tuskegee Airmen P-51D Mustang, A-12 Blackbird Spy Plane, F-16 Falcon, and many other aircraft and exhibits.
Featuring exciting visual displays and fun interactive exhibits that highlight the wonders of Mobile''s estuary system.
Learn about Mobile''s three colorful centuries of history at this downtown complex, where temporary shows chronicle the history of Mardi Gras and the influence of the French in the United States. Permanent holdings include antique furnishings, artwork, and the Discovery Room Interactive Gallery etc.
Mobile''s official Antebellum House Museum, Oakleigh is a beautiful T-shaped Greek Revival villa built in 1833. This complex consists of 3 different museums on site, which are Oakleigh Period House Museum, circa 1833; Cox-Deasy Cottage, circa 1850; and the Mardi Gras Cottage, which features 19th and 20th century collections.
One of Mobile''s finest examples of the Italianate style. Featuring a cast-iron facade depicting the four seasons.
Take a journey back in time aboard the authentic sternwheel riverboat, Spirit of LaSalle, featured on the national register of Historic Places.
Started in 1990, the Weeks Bay Reserve Foundation makes a concerted effort to protect the natural beauty of Baldwin County''s pristine coastal areas. In the region is a wide array of wildlife that includes alligator, box turtle, fox, bobcat, armadillo, blue crab, and spotted sea trout. Nature-lovers can truly enjoy here.