Alabama Tourist / travel information

Located in the Southern United States, Alabama is divided in four areas you must know: Mountains, Metropolitan, River Heritage and Gulf Coast. Alabama is well-known around the world as the state where the Civil Rights Movement started, when in 1955 Rosa Park was arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a city bus to a white man.

Visiting Montgomery, the Capital of the state, it’s a historical and educative experience.  The museums and historic places such as Rosa Park’s Museum, the Civil Rights Memorial on Washington Avenue or Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church are going to let you understand the turbulent events that happened in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Drive an hour west of Montgomery to the beautiful Old South town of Selma, and you can walk across the same Edmund Pettus Bridge where Martin Luther King, Jr. led marchers on journey toward voting rights attainment. A tour of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute allows you to look through the photographs and letters of March participants. All this is at the River Heritage area.

From the Mountains Region you will enjoy the fresh air and their beautiful lakes, waterfalls, caverns and tree-crested mountaintops. From the Metropolitan Region you will find speed at Talladega Superspeedway, big-city living in Greater Birmingham, peaches like no others in Chilton County and other attractions you are going to love.

Nevertheless, if you are a beach lover, the Golf Coast Region’s perfect for you. Nothing compares to the sugar-white sandy beaches of Golf Shores and Orange Beach where you can lie down and relax with a very special ocean view.

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