Cleveland: rock and roll on Lake Erie

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a pyramidal glass building overlooking Lake Erie, displays memorabilia from some of the greatest rock stars in music history.

Just steps away, the West Side Market, a century-old covered market, animates the city's food commerce with over one hundred independent stalls.

Walking along the lake, you proceed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, among America's most important free art museums.

As evening falls, the Tremont neighborhood enlivens restaurants and venues in a former industrial zone repurposed for contemporary culture.

The term 'rock and roll' was coined according to tradition by disc jockey Alan Freed right in Cleveland in the 1950s, a historical connection that later led to the city's choice to host the museum dedicated to the genre.

The Cuyahoga River, which flows through Cleveland, caught fire multiple times due to industrial pollution in the twentieth century, an event that contributed to inspiring the birth of the American environmental movement.