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Reading Terminal Market is an indoor public market at 12th and Arch Streets in Center City, opened in 1893 beneath the train shed of the Reading Railroad. More than a hundred merchants sell produce, meat, fish, cheese, baked goods and prepared food around a central seating area, including Pennsylvania Dutch stalls.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, on Logan Square at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Built of brownstone from 1846 to 1864 to designs by Napoleon LeBrun and John Notman, it has a copper dome and interiors painted by Constantino Brumidi; it also hosts the light-and-sound show LUMINISCENCE.

The Liberty Bell was ordered from a London foundry in 1752 for the Pennsylvania State House and recast twice in Philadelphia by John Pass and John Stow, whose names it bears. Abolitionists gave it its name in the 1830s. Since 2003 it hangs in the Liberty Bell Center opposite Independence Hall, beside exhibits on its history and its crack.

Independence Hall is a Georgian brick building in Philadelphia, completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 and the US Constitution was drafted in 1787. A World Heritage Site since 1979, it is shown on ranger-led tours that include the Assembly Room.

Elfreth's Alley is a narrow lane in Old City laid out around 1703, lined with some 32 brick houses built between 1728 and 1836 and still lived in. It is among the oldest continuously inhabited residential streets in the United States; two of its houses form the Elfreth's Alley Museum, which also runs guided walks.