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Philadelphia Hospitality presents
featuring the Philadelphia Flower Show
March 6-9, 2008
| DAY 1 THURSDAY, MARCH 6 |
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Check into The Inn at the Union League, a distinguished private club conveniently located on Philadelphia’s dynamic Avenue of the Arts. Truly in a class by itself, The Inn offers an incomparable mix of distinctive history and old-world hospitality.
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Join your group of garden enthusiasts for a welcome reception and tour of the Union League of Philadelphia’s unrivalled collection of historical writings and important art.
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Following the tour, you will enjoy dinner in one of the League’s elegant private dining rooms.
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| DAY 2 FRIDAY, MARCH 7 |
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Depart for a special early-morning tour, before the doors open to the public, of the Philadelphia Flower Show, the largest annual indoor flower show in the world.
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The 2008 show, titled Jazz it Up, pays homage to New Orleans, the city where jazz was born. Exhibits will feature walled courtyards, elaborate cast iron balconies and sparkling fountain.
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Enjoy an informal buffet luncheon in a lovely private home.
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Tour Independence National Historical Park, where so much of American colonial, revolutionary and federal-period heritage is preserved. Highlights of “America’s most historic square mile” include Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, Congress Hall, Carpenters’ Hall, The Second Bank of the United States and Franklin Court.
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Visit the National Constitution Center, America’s first and only museum devoted to the United States Constitution and the freedoms that empower us as individuals and as a nation.
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Dinner this evening is on your own.
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| DAY 3 SATURDAY, MARCH 8 |
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Depart for a full day’s excursion in the beautiful Brandywine Valley, a region renowned for its fine gardens and museums. Two famous names - Wyeth and du Pont - have left their mark on this charming region.
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Victoria Wyeth, granddaughter of Andrew Wyeth will lead you on a special tour of the Brandywine River Museum, created from a Civil War-era grist mill and converted into a modern museum showcasing American art. The museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of works by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth in the country.
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Explore Longwood Gardens, regarded as one of the world’s great gardens. Once the private estate of Pierre S. du Pont, today’s Longwood Gardens is a magnificent horticultural showplace.
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Enjoy a delicious lunch in Longwood’s Terrace Restaurant.
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Spend the remainder of the afternoon at Winterthur Museum and Country Estate is the former estate of Henry Francis du Pont. Today it is a sprawling, nine-story museum with an unrivaled collection of American decorative arts dating from 1640 to 1860.
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Dinner this evening is on your own.
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| DAY 4 SUNDAY, MARCH 9 |
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Depart for Philadelphia’s fabled Main Line and a tour of the Barnes Foundation, one of the finest private collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early-modern art in the world.
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Enjoy a farewell lunch at the prestigious Merion Cricket Club, a private club established in 1865.
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Return to your hotel for individual departures.
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