Brazil
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
French Guiana
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
Germany
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Finland
France
Greece
the Netherlands
Hungary
Ireland
Iceland
Italy
Luxembourg
Norway
Poland
Portugal
the United Kingdom
the Czech Republic
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Bermuda
Canada
Mexico
the Dominican Republic
South Africa
Egypt
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Museum
Legacy Museum
The Equal Justice Initiative museum about the history of Black people in the United States, from slavery to segregation and to the present day, near where an enslaved people’s market once operated.
Alabama · the United States Capital
Montgomery
In the destination Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.
In the photo: Montgomery and its urban riverfront on the Alabama River.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
What to expect from Montgomery.
Capital of Alabama on the Alabama River. It was the first capital of the Confederate States in 1861, and almost a century later the place where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955. Downtown includes the state capitol, the Rosa Parks Museum, and the Equal Justice Initiative sites about slavery and racial violence.
Share:
WhatsApp
Where to stay
There's no accommodation in the guide yet in Montgomery.
Where to eat
There are no restaurants in the guide yet in Montgomery.
Know a good one? Recommend it to usYour trip
how to get there · how many days · itinerary · questions
The local experience
What to see in Montgomery
Memorial
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
An outdoor memorial dedicated to more than 4,400 victims of racial lynching in the United States, with 800 suspended steel columns, one for each county where killings occurred.
Park
National Monument to Freedom
A roughly 7-hectare riverside sculpture park on the Alabama River about slavery and the lives of enslaved people, featuring the National Monument to Freedom.
Museum
Rosa Parks Museum
Museum at the downtown spot where Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955, featuring a reconstruction of the bus incident and the story of the boycott that lasted more than a year.
See 1 more place in Montgomery
Historic building
Alabama State Capitol
Seat of Alabama’s government, dating to 1851, with a white dome atop Dexter Avenue. It was the endpoint of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.