Late March / early April
Opening Day & Findlay Market Parade
Cincinnati's unofficial civic holiday. The parade steps off from Findlay Market and ends at the ballpark.
Downtown
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Start with the city essentials
The places, flavors and experiences that explain the Queen City.
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Eat and drink your way through Cincinnati
Chili parlors, Findlay Market stalls, neighborhood breweries, Graeter's and riverfront patios.
Landmark
Roebling Suspension Bridge
John Roebling's 1866 span — the prototype for the Brooklyn Bridge. Walk it at dusk for the skyline view everyone photographs.
Parks
Eden Park & Krohn Conservatory
186 hilltop acres with an overlook of the river valley, a glass conservatory and the Cincinnati Art Museum next door.
Shop local
Businesses that live here too
100 real Cincinnati businesses to start with, with food, shops, services and neighborhood institutions.
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Neighborhoods
Find your corner of Cincinnati
Explore historic districts, hillside villages, business strips and river communities.
Over-the-Rhine
Findlay Market · Music Hall
Downtown & The Banks
Fountain Square · Smale Riverfront Park
Mt. Adams
Eden Park · Krohn Conservatory
Hyde Park
Hyde Park Square · Ault Park
Northside
Hamilton Ave · Northside Tavern
Clifton
Ludlow Ave · Cincinnati Zoo
Walnut Hills
Peebles Corner · Eden Park edge
Oakley
Oakley Square · MadTree
On the calendar
Cincinnati traditions worth planning for
Memorial Day weekend
Taste of Cincinnati
One of the country's longest-running street food festivals, stretched along Fifth Street downtown.
Fifth Street
October, biennial
BLINK
Projection mapping, murals and light installations across downtown, OTR and the bridge.
Downtown & OTR
September
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati
The largest Oktoberfest in the United States, with the Running of the Wieners to start it.
Second Street
City history
From Losantiville to now
1788
Losantiville founded
Settlers land at the mouth of the Licking River and lay out a town opposite it on the Ohio's north bank.
1790
Renamed Cincinnati
Governor Arthur St. Clair renames the settlement for the Society of the Cincinnati, after the Roman farmer-general Cincinnatus.
1811
Steamboats arrive
The first steamboat reaches the public landing, and Cincinnati becomes the West's busiest inland port.
1830s
Porkopolis
Pork packing makes the city the meat capital of the country — and gives Procter & Gamble its raw materials.
1840s–70s
The Over-the-Rhine Germans
Tens of thousands of German immigrants settle north of the canal, building breweries, beer gardens, churches and the lagering tunnels still under the streets.
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Cincinnati, by the people here
A community view of the streets, river, food and moments that make this city home.