Pittsburgh and Fallingwater

Pittsburgh was founded at the confluence that forms the Ohio River, in western Pennsylvania. It was the United States’ major steel center at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, generating fortunes such as those of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, who left the city museums, libraries and parks.

With the decline of the steel mills, the city reinvented itself around universities, hospitals and technology. Downtown, squeezed between the rivers, is ringed by hundreds of bridges, and the 19th-century inclines climb Mount Washington to viewpoints over the confluence. On the other side of the Allegheny River, the North Shore houses the stadiums and the Andy Warhol Museum, dedicated to the artist born there; in Oakland are the Carnegie Museums and the Phipps Victorian glasshouse.

About 110 km to the southeast, in the Laurel Highlands, Frank Lloyd Wright built Fallingwater, the house perched over a waterfall, and, nearby, Kentuck Knob. Both are part of the group of Wright’s works listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The base for visiting them is Ohiopyle, a village within a state park of waterfalls and rapids on the Youghiogheny River, crossed by a bike path that runs to Pittsburgh.

This destination brings together 2 cities: Pittsburgh, Ohiopyle.