Little Italy
Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood.
Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture. There are shops selling Italian goods as well as Italian restaurants lining the streets. A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of Italian immigration, during which people of the same culture settled or were ostracized and segregated together in certain areas. As cities modernized and grew, these areas became known for their ethnic associations, and ethnic neighborhoods like "Little Italy" blossomed, becoming the areas they are today.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Italy
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 Baltimore
The University of Baltimore is a public university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is part of the University System of Maryland.
2.5 km · namesake university of Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 02Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, commonly known as Camden Yards, is a ballpark in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is the home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, and the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s.
1.8 km · baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 03Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters.
1.7 km · art museum in Baltimore, Maryland, US · Wikipedia - 04Archdiocese of Baltimore
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is the archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in northern and western Maryland in the United States. It is the metropolitan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of Baltimore.
1.6 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 05Fort McHenry
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British Royal Navy from the Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814.
3.2 km · United States fort in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 06Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established in 1893 following the construction of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hopkins became a model for modern medical education.
1.5 km · academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University · Wikipedia - 07Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, is a Catholic cathedral in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first Catholic cathedral built in the United States after the nation's founding and was among the first major religious buildings constructed after the adoption of the United States Constitution.
1.6 km · church in Maryland, United States · Wikipedia - 08George Peabody Library
The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University, focuses on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and it is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
1.7 km · Research library in Baltimore, Maryland, US · Wikipedia - 09Peabody Institute
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins in 1977.
1.7 km · conservatory and university-prep school in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia - 10CFG Bank Arena
CFG Bank Arena is a multipurpose arena in Baltimore, Maryland. This venue is located about one block away from the Baltimore Convention Center on the corner of Baltimore Street and Hopkins Place in downtown Baltimore.
1.5 km · arena located in Baltimore, Maryland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Italy
- Airports
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI), 14 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 61 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 83 km
- Stations
- Port of Baltimore, 1.9 km · Camden Station, 1.6 km · Charles Center, 1.3 km · Shot Tower, 500 m · Lexington Market, 1.9 km
- Washington → Little Italy58 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · $5–7
- Dulles → Little Italy81 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · $8–11
- Philadelphia → Little Italy144 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Little Italy
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 Little Italy. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inEd Kane's Water Taxi, +1 410 563-3901, stops at the Broadway Pier, connecting to the Inner Harbor, as well as Fort McHenry in South Baltimore and Canton to the east.
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Next door to Little Italy
Little Italy is 1 km from Baltimore, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Baltimorecity in Maryland, United States1.2 km
- Fell's Pointneighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States800 m
- Inner Harborneighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, United States900 m