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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Road map C5. * 524,300. n
Metropolitan Tucson Convention
& Visitors Bureau, 100 S. Church
Ave. (520) 624-1817; (800) 638-
8350. _ La Fiesta de los Vaqueros
(late Feb). ∑ visittucson.org
Transport
k Tucson International, 10 miles
(16 km) south of downtown.
£ Amtrak Station, 400 E. Toole
Ave. @ Greyhound Lines,
One of many 19th-century adobe houses in the Barrio Historic District 471 W. Congress.
P Barrio Historic District E The University of Arizona Museum of Art is the Center
This area was Tucson’s main Visitors’ Center, 811 N. Euclid Ave. for Creative Photography,
business district in the late Tel (520) 621-5130. Open 9am–5pm which contains the work of
19th century. Today, its streets Mon–Fri. ∑ arizona.edu many of the 20th century’s
are quiet and lined with Several museums are located greatest American photo-
attractive original adobe houses on or near the UA campus, graphers. Visitors can view the
painted in bright colors. On about a mile (1.6 km) east of extensive archives by advance
nearby Main Street is the down-town. The Arizona reservations. The Flandrau
“wishing shrine” of El Tiradito, Historical Society Museum Science Center features a
which marks the spot where traces Arizona’s history from range of child-friendly
a young man was killed as a the arrival of the Spanish in interactive exhibits.
result of a lovers’ triangle. Local 1540, to modern times. The One of the most renowned
people light candles here for University of Arizona Museum collections of artifacts, covering
his soul and they still believe of Art focuses on European 2,000 years of native history,
that if their candles burn for a and American fine art from is displayed by the Arizona
whole night, their wishes will the Renaissance to contem- State Museum, which was
come true. porary pieces. Opposite the founded in 1893.

Downtown Tucson
1 Tucson Museum of Art and S I X T H S T R E E T
Historic Block University of
2 Pima County Courthouse FRANKLIN STREET SIXTH AVE ARIZONA AVE Arizona
3 El Presidio Historic District MAIN AVENUE CHURCH AVE S T O N E A V E N U E SEVENTH STREET
4 St. Augustine Cathedral MEYER AVENUE COURT AVENUE COUNCIL STREET FIFTH AVENUE HERBERT AVENUE
5 Barrio Historic District Tucson Museum of Art FOURTH AVENUE
and Historic Block Casa Cordova
ALAMEDA STREET EIGHTH STREET
Pima County
Courthouse
PENNINGTON STREET Amtrak
El Presidio T O O L E AV E N U E station
Historic District
ARIZONA AVENUE Greyhound
CONGRESS STREET
station
B R OADWAY BOULEVARD
CHURCH AVENUE St. Augustine SCOTT AVENUE 12TH STREET FIFTH AVENUE HERBERT AVENUE
JACKSON STREET
OCHOA STREET
GRANADA AVENUE
Cathedral
Park
El SIXTH AVENUE Armory
Tiradito C U S H I N G S T R E E T S T O N E A V E N U E 13TH STREET FOURTH AVENUE
Barrio
0 meters 100 Historic District 1 4 T H S T R E E T
MAIN AVE MEYER AVE KENNEDY STREET 15TH STREET
0 yards 100 SIMPSON ST
Tucson
International Airport
13 km (8 miles)
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