Halifax is the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and forms together with the neighbouring cities of Dartmouth, Bedford and Sackville of the Halifax metropolitan area. East of Quebec and Boston, Halifax is therefore the largest population centre. Founded in Halifax in 1749, was named after the former President of the United Kingdom Lord Halifax Chamber of Commerce. Only three years later a ferry service could be set to the newly founded Dartmouth, which is still today the most important transport links between the two cities.
Halifax International Airport is located just 35 km from downtown Halifax and 30 km from Dartmouth in the municipality of Enfield. The most important seasonal stop is Condor flights on the route to Europe operated and goes from Frankfurt am Main. At the Halifax airport, you can rent a car also. Many car hire companies are there car hire locations. For drivers, there are several ways to Halifax. From the airport of Halifax drive at best about the highway 102, from East, one can reach the city via the A. Murray MacKay bridge. If you are coming from the South Yarmouth with a hire car, take the route 3 or 103. route 101 connects Halifax Annapolis Valley and the United States is the best combination of Maine and New Brunswick. The Halifax peninsula can be very well achieved with various ferries: so, Iceland from Yarmouth is served by bar Harbour and Portland in Maine and wood Islands and Prince Edward. Of Yarmouth is then with your rental car not more far to Halifax. And on the go, you can explore the peninsula of Nova Scotia.
The Halifax metropolitan area has six colleges. The most famous among them is the Dalhousie University. In the city centre, you can visit the Citadel (Fort George), the Province House and the 'Big Ben' from Halifax. This clock tower is evanciert thanks to its special octagonal form and its over our history to the symbol of Halifax. From the Citadel Hill on which is also the old town clock, you have a wonderful panoramic view over the city. Worth seeing certainly is Halifax public garden, which is already in 1867 created Victorian as a recreation area. For artists and those interested in culture is worth visiting the art gallery of Nova Scotia and the Pier 21. On this, immigrants from Europe arrived in the 1950s. Today, you can visit a museum there, similar to Ellis Iceland in New York. If you are interested in the history of the Titanic can be seen the tombs of the disaster victims cemetery in Halifax on the cemeteries of Fairview cemetery, Mount Olivet cemetery, and the Baron de Hirsch. With the car, also a ride at the northern tip of Nova Scotia is worth to Sydney. This small town by the fact that here again and again tourists strand, who actually wanted to travel to the Australian Sydney became known.
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