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What about Memphis? What are the interesting places in Memphis?

Memphis is a city in Tennessee, USA. It is the largest city in Tennessee, the second largest city in the southeastern United States, second only to Jacksonville, Florida, and the 17 largest city in the United States. Memphis is an important transportation hub and center in the United States. It has the busiest freight airport in the world, is the headquarters of FedEx, and is also the center of major manufacturing industries, mainly developing textiles, heating equipment, pianos and auto parts. The city is rich in tourism resources, with many scenic spots, museums, unique religious buildings and beautiful scenery.

The tourist attractions in Memphis are

Gresland, the former residence of Elvis Presley

Sun Records Company (Sun Studio)

Cable car to Mudao

Brooks Museum of Art

Memphis zoo

Graka church

Beale steet

National civil rights museum

Brooks Museum of Art

Maowang former residence yayuan

Pink Palace Museum

Nidaohe park

Dixon art gallery and gardening.

Built for a specific purpose

The secular architecture in Memphis is full of neoclassicism or romanticism. There are many religious buildings in the ancient city, including the churches of Graka, Juan Batista, carmo Duo, neves and San Bento. These churches were built in 16 and 18 centuries, with gorgeous interiors and exquisite paintings, showing the classical artistic style. It is also convenient to contact with the outside world. The main buildings in the ancient city are interconnected; Street twists and turns, with the terrain changes and natural ups and downs; Therefore, many Little Square have been formed at the crossroads of the street and the open space in front of the church. The ancient buildings are hidden in dense palm trees, which makes the city more and more elegant.

The most famous religious building in Memphis is the Bishop's Church, which includes three main halls. The church of Graca was built in 16 to 17 century, the church of Juan Batista was built in 17 century, and the churches of neves, do carmo and San Bento were built in 18 century. The similarities of these churches are luxurious interior decoration, exquisite painting and classical artistic style, which is a concrete display of European Christian art in the United States. Many existing ancient civil buildings were built in17th century and19th century. The civil buildings built at the beginning of the twentieth century have romantic style or neoclassical style.