The Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau offers a smorgasbord of fun facts about this city. Following are 10 that FireRescue found particularly interesting.
1. Dallas’ Farmers Market is the largest working farmer’s market in the United States, with more than 1 million visitors annually.
2. The Dallas Public Library in downtown Dallas permanently displays one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4, 1776, and the First Folio of William Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories & Tragedies.”
3. DFW International Airport, larger than the island of Manhattan, is one of the busiest airports in the world with some 1,900 flights per day.
4. The Dallas area is the largest metropolitan area in the nation not on a navigable body of water.
5. More than 30 museums, ranging from art, baseball and sewing machines to railroading and more, can be found in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
6. The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has the most significant collection of Spanish art outside of Spain, featuring art from the 10th through 20th centuries.
7. The Dallas Arts District will have more buildings designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects in one contiguous location than anywhere else in the world.
8. According to the Texas Restaurant Association, the Dallas area has more than 6,000 restaurants to enjoy.
9. Texas ranks second behind California as a pleasure travel destination for U.S. residents.
10. Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Dallas Theater Center, the only freestanding theater built to his design that is still operating today.
For 50 more fun facts, visit www.visitdallas.com/visitors/online_toolkit/fun_facts.
Photo: An Old West cattle drive, captured in bronze, is depicted in a sculpture at Pioneer Plaza, a park that marks the entrance to the Dallas Convention Center.
Photo Courtesy Dan Hatzenbuehler/Stock Studios/Dallas CVB
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