10 Things To Know About The Mile High City
December 18, 2009 in Featured Article by Timeshare & Fractional Property Magazine, News & ReviewsInteresting facts about what makes Denver unique
1. Denver has 300 days of annual sunshine.
Located east of a major mountain range, Denver has a mild, dry and sunny climate with more annual hours of sun than San Diego or Miami Beach. In winter, Denver is dryer than Phoenix with an average daily high of 45 degrees in February. Golf courses remain open all year and have been played as many as 30 days in January. Denver receives only 14 inches of precipitation a year – about the same as Los Angeles.
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2. Denver’s arts and cultural scene is thriving.
In its Old West days, Denver had a performance of Macbeth before it had a school or a hospital. That performance took place in a saloon. Today, Metro Denver collects more for the arts on a per capita basis than any other city. The seven-county Denver metro area has a self-imposed 10th of a cent sales tax for the arts that raises more than US$40 million a year, which is distributed to 300 arts organizations and facilities.
The city’s cultural renaissance can be found in places like the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Covering four square blocks, the complex is the second largest in the country, with 10 theatres seating more than 10,000 people for opera, symphony, ballet, Tony Award-winning theatre and touring Broadway shows. The new $92 million Ellie Caulkins
Opera House is recognized as one of the finest acoustical venues in the world and Denver voters just approved a US$90 million refurbishing of Boettcher Concert Hall.
Denver has currently added new art museums including the Denver Art Museum’s astonishing new Hamilton Building, designed by world famous architect Daniel Libeskind, and the new Museum of Contemporary Art designed by David Adjaye. This is his first building in the United States.
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