The City of Nashville, Tennessee "Music City" is one of the most populous cities and popular vacation destinations in Tennessee. Well known destinations include: Gaylord Entertainment, Opry Mills, Lower Broadway and Printer's Alley. Music Row, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art; the Tennessee State Museum, the Nashville Zoo, LP Field (Home to the Tennessee Titans), Sommet Center (Home to the Nashville Predators), as well as Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, and Middle Tennessee State University to name a few.

The population of the entire 13-county Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area in 2008 was 1,550,733 - making it the largest metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee.

Nashville is known for being the Music City, the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and many major record labels. The city is also known as the Athens of the South: Home to twenty-four post-secondary educational institutions - Nashville has long been compared to the ancient city of learning, site of Plato's Academy. Since 1897, a full-scale replica of the Athenian Parthenon has stood in Nashville, and many examples of classical and neoclassical architecture can be found in the city.

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