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Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a scenic boulevard that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Named for favorite son Benjamin Franklin, the mile-long Parkway cuts diagonally across the grid plan pattern of Center City's Northwest quadrant. It starts at Philadelphia City Hall, curves around Logan Circle, and ends before the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
==Attractions==
The Parkway is the spine of Philadelphia's Museum District. Some of the city's most famous sights are here: Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul; Swann Memorial Fountain; the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute, Moore College of Art and Design, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Rodin Museum, Eakins Oval, the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From its northern end, the Parkway provides access to Fairmount Park through Kelly Drive (formerly East River Drive), Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive), the Schuylkill River Trail, and the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76).
The Parkway also is an outdoor sculpture garden. Works include: ''The Thinker'' by Auguste Rodin; ''Gates of Hell'' also by Rodin; ''LOVE'' by Robert Indiana; ''The Ideal Scout'' by Robert Tait McKenzie; ''Three-Way Piece'' by Henry Moore; the three River figures in the Swann Memorial Fountain by Alexander Stirling Calder; ''Shakespeare Memorial'' also by Calder; ''Philadelphia Holocaust Memorial'' by Nathan Rapoport; ''Joseph Leidy'' by Samuel Murray; ''Aero Memorial'' by Paul Manship; ''General Galusha Pennypacker'' by Charles Grafly and Albert Laessle; ''Jesus Breaking Bread'' by Walter Erlebacher; ''All Wars Colored Soldiers and Sailors Memorial'' by J. Otto Schweizer; ''Thaddeus Kosciuszko'' by Robert Aitken; ''Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Memorial'' by Hermon Atkins MacNeil; ''Kopernik'' by Dudley Vaill Talcott; ''Joan of Arc'' by Emmanuel Fremiet; Washington Monument by Rudolf Siemering; and the ''Rocky'' statue by A. Thomas Schomberg.
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