Detroit and Dearborn

Detroit is in southeastern Michigan, on the banks of the Detroit River, which separates the United States from Canada: Windsor, Ontario, is on the other side of the water. In the 20th century Henry Ford and other automakers made the city the center of the American automobile industry, and the nickname Motor City comes from that era.

The city also gave its name to Motown, the record label founded by Berry Gordy in 1959, which launched Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes and The Temptations. Downtown, Art Deco skyscrapers like the Guardian Building sit alongside the RiverWalk, a multi-kilometer promenade on the river, and the Michigan Central Station, restored in Corktown. In Midtown, the Detroit Institute of Arts houses the industry murals painted by Diego Rivera.

On Saturdays the Eastern Market brings together producers in a late-19th-century public market, and Belle Isle, an island in the middle of the river, is the city’s large park, with a conservatory, aquarium and fountain.

Dearborn, west of Detroit and Henry Ford’s birthplace, has the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, the outdoor museum Greenfield Village, and tours of the Ford pickup truck factory at the Rouge River complex. The city is home to one of the largest Arab-origin communities in the country and the Arab American National Museum.

This destination brings together 2 cities: Detroit, Dearborn.