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When I started planning a little mother-daughter get away before Katie's wedding, I knew we wanted to go to someplace luxurious where we'd be pampered, but we also wanted to hike, practice yoga, and spend time outdoors. When I discovered Katie had always wanted to go to the Biltmore, our new client, it was a no-brainer.
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Inc. Magazine, one of my favorite reads, recently listed Biltmore House and Gardens as one of six great historic sites to visit. Inc. says that "if you're looking for a new venture, maybe it's time to brush up on your history."
This lush family-run estate is locate in Asheville, North Carolina, and situated next to The Pisgah National Forest, a half million acre forest in the Great Smoky Mountains created when George Vanderbilt, the
grandson of railroad baron, Cornelius Vanderbilt, assembled property around his growing estate.
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He hired the founding father of American landscape architecture—Frederick Law Olmsted—to design the grounds. Olmsted's vision for Biltmore included a small pleasure ground and garden, a major arboretum and nursery, and a systematically managed forest, the first in the country.
George and Edith Vanderbilt built the 250-room manor as their private residence in 1898. In 1930, his enterprising daughter Cornelia Cecil opened up the sprawling 125,000-acre estate for limited tours.
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Today, Biltmore hosts more than one million visitors annually and employs almost 2,000 people, one of the largest employers in Buncombe County. It features gardens, a winery, shopping, and dining - even horseback riding, fly fishing and segway-ing. Biltmore welcomes visitors from all ages and regions.
LeeAnn Donnelly, a spokesperson for the Biltmore Estate, says historical tourism is a sound market: "I can say that, in general, smaller regional attractions have tended to do
better as people have opted for less expensive, closer to home vacations, or 'staycations.'"
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Check out Inc for other exciting and profitable historical sites around the nation.
See you at Biltmore in May! Suzi, Garden Media Group
1 comment:
I have book marked it for later!
Thanx for yoga information.
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