Philadelphia
Worth seeing in and around Philadelphia
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Chartered in 1755 by its first president Benjamin Franklin, who advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service, it is one of nine colonial colleges in the country.
2.6 km · private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 02Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The building, which is the centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park, was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979.
1.2 km · historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 03Lincoln Financial Field
Lincoln Financial Field is an American football stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States It is the home stadium of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League and the Temple Owls football team of Temple University. The stadium is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and South Darien streets alongside Interstate 95.
5.7 km · American football stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 04Q818735
Xfinity Mobile Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It serves as the home of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League and the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association.
5.7 km · multi-purpose indoor arena located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia - 05Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.
2.1 km · art museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 06Temple University
Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation at the Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, then called Baptist Temple.
3.3 km · public research university in Philadelphia, United States · Wikipedia - 07Drexel University
Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist.
2.2 km · private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · Wikipedia - 08Philadelphia City Hall
The Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built in the ornate Second Empire style, City Hall houses the chambers of the Philadelphia City Council and the offices of the Mayor of Philadelphia.
0 m · historic building housing Philadelphia's municipal government · Wikipedia - 09Citizens Bank Park
Citizens Bank Park is a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Home to Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Phillies, the stadium opened April 3, 2004.
5.2 km · baseball park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Wikipedia - 10Comcast Center
The Comcast Center, also known as the Comcast Tower, is a skyscraper at 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Center City, Philadelphia. The 58-story, 973-foot tower is the second-tallest building in Philadelphia and in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the 31st-tallest building in the United States.
500 m · skyscraper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Philadelphia
- Airports
- Philadelphia (PHL), 11 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 117 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 140 km
- Stations
- 30th Street Station, 1.6 km
- New York → Philadelphia130 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · $12–17
- Newark → Philadelphia121 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · $11–15
- Baltimore → Philadelphia144 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Philadelphia
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Philadelphia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
- Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
- Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.
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Next door to Philadelphia
- Woodlynneborough in New Jersey, United States7 km
- Merchantvilleborough in New Jersey8.3 km
- Lansdowneborough in Pennsylvania, United States9.6 km
- East Lansdowneborough of Pennsylvania8.3 km
- Colwynborough of Pennsylvania8.9 km
- Pennsaukentownship in New Jersey, United States of America9 km