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Set amid the gentle hills and fertile farmlands
of central Tennessee, NASHVILLE attracts six
million people each year a mixture of devoted fans and the just
plain curious to immerse themselves in country music .
They come to enjoy themselves, and the city makes sure that they
do, offering not just the relatively mainstream Country
Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry ,
but all the wonders of "Tacksville." To make the most
of this facet of Nashville, you need to abandon any idea of detachment,
and get out there among the nightspots and gift emporia, joining
the quest for souvenir T-shirts, Stetsons, rattlesnake belts and
photos of your favorite star.
However, there is a real city beneath the rhinestone
glitter. Nashville has been the leading settlement in middle Tennessee
since Fort Nashborough was established in 1779.
State capital since 1843, it is now the financial
and insurance center of the mid-South, as well
as a fast-growing manufacturing base. Giant Nissan
and Saturn motor plants have been attracted to its immediate hinterland,
and rapid growth since World War II has transformed a once-compact
city into a sprawling conurbation stretching out in all directions
along the undulating roads, here known as pikes
.
For all its blue-collar "Nash-Vegas" image,
Nashville has maintained a strong reputation for learning
since planter times, and is home to sixteen higher education establishments,
including Vanderbilt University and the renowned colleges of Fisk
University and Meharry Medical School. The city likes to see itself
as the "Athens of the South" and, endearingly, has built
a replica of the Parthenon to bolster its claim. Even at night,
Nashville offers more than country music, with enough going on
to satisfy most tastes. It has also boosted its image by attracting
an NFL team (the Tennessee Oilers) and NHL side (the Nashville
Predators) here.
The other conspicuous element in Nashville's make-up
is religion . There are over seven hundred churches,
more per capita than anywhere else in the country. But what really
earns it the tag of "Protestant Vatican" is the proliferation
of colleges for training preachers and missionaries, church administrative
offices and Bible-publishing plants.
