Travel Reference
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just over the Smithfield St bridge, is
Station Square
( 800-859-8959;
www.stationsquare.com
; Station Square Dr)
, a group of beautiful, renovated railway buildings
that now houses a few restaurants, nightclubs and bars. About halfway between the two
inclines along the Monongahela River is
Highmark Stadium
, a new 3500 seat soccer sta-
dium. Grandview Ave, at the top of the Duquesne Incline, has several excellent restaur-
ants with romantic views including the five-star Le Mont.
Oakland & Around
The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are here, and the surround-
ing streets are packed with cheap eateries, cafes, shops and student homes.
Carnegie Museums
MUSEUM
( 412-622-3131;
www.carnegiemuseums.org
;
4400 Forbes Ave; adult/child $18/12;
10am-5pm Tue-Sat, from noon Sun; )
The
Carnegie Museum of Art
, has terrific exhibits
of architecture, impressionist, postimpressionist and modern American paintings; and the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
features a complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton and
exhibits on Pennsylvania geology and Inuit prehistory.
Frick Art & Historical Center
MUSEUM
( 412-371-0600;
www.thefrickpittsburgh.org
;
7227 Reynolds St; museum & grounds free, Clayton
tours $12; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun)
East of Oakland, in Point Breeze, this museum
displays some of Henry Clay Frick's Flemish, French and Italian paintings; assorted
Frickmobiles like a 1914 Rolls Royce in the Car & Carriage Museum; more than 5 acres
of grounds and gardens; and Clayton, the restored 1872 Frick mansion. Bus 71 C from
downtown heads out this way.
Phipps Conservatory
GARDENS
( 412-622-6914;
www.phipps.conservatory.org
; One Schenley Park; adult/child $15/11;
9:30am-5pm, to 10pm Fri; )
An impressive steel-and-glass greenhouse with beauti-
fully designed and curated gardens.
Cathedral of Learning
TOWER
( 412-624-6000; 4200 Fifth Ave; tours $3; 9am-3pm Mon-Sat, from 11am Sun)
Rising up from the center of the University of Pittsburgh campus is this soaring grand,
42-story Gothic tower, which at 535ft is the second-tallest education building in the
