Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Austin – State Capital of Texas


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Austin is the state capital of Texas. It is a high-tech industry city, known as Silicon Hill, which corresponds to Silicon Valley on the west coast. It also preserves the flavor of a small American town, known as the Live Music Capital of the World.




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As the capital of Texas, Austin has the reputation of "the most livable city in the world", "the world's most suitable city for single people", "the world's most bodybuilding city", "the world's sweetest city" and so on. Austin is like a hidden of pearls in the wilderness, guarded around it --  "sky city" of Houston, "cowboy’s capital" of Bandera, "lofty ambition" of Dallas, "the heroic warrior" of San Antonio.




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Texas government building in Austin city. The building was built with the prototype of Washington DC's congress building. It has a statue of liberty at the top. It is said that this building is taller than the Washington DC Capitol, which is also the highest in the state legislature buildings in the United States.






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Texas fate of full of frustrations in history, it has six times change ruler, which included – The Kingdom of Spain (1519-1685, 1519-1685), The Kingdom of France (1685-1690), The Republic of Mexico (1821-1836), The Republic of Texas (1836-1845), The Confederate States of America (1861-1865) with The United States of America (1845-1861, 1845 since ). These regimes left a
symbolic power in the rule of Texas. And today the people of Texas are willing to put these six flags in a piece, called it for Texas 6 flag culture, to highlight their inclusion of different cultures and diversity in the culture of agitation, unique creativity.


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On the ground floor of the hall, there is the emblem of the Republic of Texas. On the walls of a circular, from one to four layers, hangs a portrait of the President of the republic of Texas and the governor of Texas.





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The photo of George Walker Bush is here.      












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Austen is known as "Live Music Capital of the World". The most famous is the Sixth Street, the street of bars and other nightlife venues, the night comes, and there are all kinds of live singing.









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Driskill Hotel is an old hotel with ancient Rome style. It was built in 1886 and the oldest hotel is still open in Austen. It is located near the Sixth Street.








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The origins of this church dates back to the 1850s when the Catholic community created a small stone church called St Patrick's on the corner of 9th Street and Brazos Street in Austin. In 1866, the church was renamed St. Mary's Church. When we got there, someone was holding the wedding. Although it is very small building, but the round hood color is particularly bright in the morning sunrise.








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Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake) is an extremely river-like reservoir on the Colorado River in Downtown Austin, Texas, in the United States.







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The bridge of the Congress Avenue in Austin, which spans Lady Bird Lake, it is home to 1.5 million Mexican koala bats in summer. These bats travel in groups at night, forming rare wildlife wonders in the United States. Bats visit from mid-march through October, when the bats all fly out, it will hover in the lake, and it is spectacular and stunning.