In old photos, you can see a pitch-black city, covered in soot and smoke from factory chimneys and blast furnaces. Pittsburgh, until the 1970s, was a steel center. Today, it has become a luminous city with multiple bright yellow bridges, scattered at the confluence of its three rivers.
It is absolutely necessary to take the Duquesne Incline, one of the last funiculars, built in 1877, which offers a magnificent panorama of the city. Pittsburgh also has an extraordinary variety of museums, the most famous of which is dedicated to Andy Warhol, a native son. We discover Warhol before Marilyn and Campbell’s soups.
The largest bicycle museum in the world
Even more original is The Mattress Factory, a “laboratory museum” housed in an old mattress factory, with all sorts of amazing installations. Don’t miss The Cathedral of Learning, a neo-Gothic tower of the pretty campus of the University of Pittsburgh. More than 30 classrooms are decorated according to the style of a country.
Finally, lovers of two-wheelers will not fail to stop at Bicycle Heaven, the largest museum in the world dedicated to bicycles. There are hundreds of models, some of which have been magnified by Hollywood.