Vacation Guide - Seattle

Neighbourhoods & historic Districts

Pike Place Market

One of the oldest continuously-operated farmer’s markets in the U.S., Pike Place Market presides over a nine acre historic district in the heart of down-town Seattle. The market features fresh fish and produce stands, arts and crafts, ethnic groceries and gift stores, vintage clothing, antiques and collectibles, international restaurants, cafés and food bars. Street musicians, sanctioned by the Pike Place Market Preservation Development Authority, entertain at designated locales throughout the market. The Pike Place Market is located between First & Western Avenues bound by Union & Stewart Streets.

Pioneer Square

Today, Seattle’s historic district, located on the southern fringe of the down-town business core, features some 20 square blocks of Victorian Romanesque architecture, museums, art galleries, many restaurants and night-life. But historically, Pioneer Square offers many a wild tale. As a young lumber town in the 1800s, logs skidded down its streets to harbour side sawmills. The town’s brisk growth was suddenly halted by a great fire in 1889 that destroyed many of its wooden structures.

The town was quickly rebuilt with brick and mortar atop the rubble and Seattle boomed again as a primary staging area for the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s when more than 70,000 prospectors passed through town. Today, visitors are still drawn to Pioneer Square. The Underground Tour offers a look at the remnants of the old town below street level. The Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park interprets Seattle’s critical role in the gold rush. And antique-hunters, gallery-walkers and bar-hoppers keep the neighbourhood bustling.

The Seattle Centre

The legacy of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle Centre is a 74-acre urban park and home to the landmark Space Needle, Pacific Science Centre, Experience Music Project| Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Children’s Museum, Seattle and many other attractions.

The Seattle Centre also hosts many of the city’s largest festivals, including Bumbershoot, the Seattle Arts Festival, the Northwest Folk-life Festival, Magic Giant children’s festival, the Comcast Bite of Seattle and many other community events. Go for option, to rent a car and for this you can click here to proceed toward rental website, where you plan your trip to Seattle.

The Seattle Waterfront

Seattle’s natural deep-water harbour, Elliott Bay, teems with trade, ferry boats, luxury cruise liners, sightseeing tour boats and myriad pleasure craft. Prime harbour views can be found on the city’s central waterfront, stretching along Alaskan Way from Pier 70 on the north to Pier 48 on the south. Midway, built atop Pier 59 is the Seattle Aquarium.

International District

Chinese immigrants originally landed in Seattle in the 1860s, finding work at the town’s saw mills, rail lines and on its fishing boats. Today, the International District spans some 44-blocks south of down-town Seattle, bound by Yesler Way and Dearborn Street on the north and south and Interstate-5 and Fourth Avenue on the east and west. Seattle’s Asian population has grown steadily to 14.4 percent, and today it’s the only neighbourhood in the U.S. where Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese and South-east Asians coexist.