A city is never all about one neighborhood, but an old German area in Cincinnati called Over-the-Rhine has managed to turn this town around — encouraging investment and drawing new residents to its gentrified coolness. OTR, as locals call it, is now a vibrant, carefully cultivated 319-acre mix of condos, apartments, restaurants, bars and shops, many in renovated 19th-century brick Italianate buildings. The city of nearly 300,000 is also home to the world-class Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Opera, a new Shakespeare Company theater that’s modeled after London’s Globe Theatre, and the Cincinnati Art Museum, established in 1886 and boasting 167,000 works of art.
Source: AARP Travel
