Detroit/Windsor

Detroit, looms large in the American imagination, both as a success story for the birth of the automotive industry and the struggles of the industrial heartland in the modern age. Downtown Detroit offers beautiful Art Deco architecture, and the Detroit Institute of Arts retains an extraordinary collection. It’s the founding city for the University of Michigan and continues to be a draw for young people, artists, and entrepreneurs who cultivate its unique spirit. The combination of raw materials like steel and accessibility as a Great Lakes port made it home to the nascent auto industry and christened Detroit the American “Motor City”. Individuals passionate about music may refer to Detroit as Motown, a nickname given to Detroit, where the label bearing the same name got its start.

Just outside of Detroit, you can visit the Henry Ford Museum, created to document the genius of ordinary people. Housed in a sweeping, nine-acre, single-floor space with soaring 40-foot ceilings, the design and sheer scope of the museum is as grand as the vision that inspired it. Local expert docents will escort guests to see the museum’s highlights that include: the limousine that carried President John F. Kennedy on that fateful day in Texas, the bus in which Rosa Parks stood her ground and sparked the Civil Rights movement, and the chair from the Ford Theatre in which Abraham Lincoln was sitting when he was shot.

Windsor is located on the south bank of the Detroit River, directly across from Detroit, Michigan. These two cities are connected by the Ambassador Bridge and contribute to making it the busiest international border crossing in North America.

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