Pittsburgh: three rivers and the historic incline

A former world capital of steel reconverted into a technology and cultural hub, Pittsburgh sits at the exact point where two rivers merge to form the Ohio, a vista that the city's historic cable cars allow visitors to admire from on high.

The center and Mount Washington neighborhood are conveniently connected by nineteenth-century cable cars.

The Duquesne Incline, cable car in operation since 1877 along the side of Mount Washington, reaches in minutes a panoramic terrace from which the entire confluence of the city's three rivers can be seen.

The Point State Park, at the tip of the urban triangle where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers give rise to the Ohio, houses a fountain that pushes water nearly fifty meters high during summer months.

The Andy Warhol Museum, the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single American artist, occupies seven floors in what was once an industrial warehouse, just blocks from the birthplace of the artist.

The Carnegie Museums, founded by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, unite under one roof one of the world's most complete dinosaur skeletons and an art collection spanning from French Impressionists to contemporary art.

The same wealth that funded the Carnegie Museums was born from the steel mills that once darkened the sky above the confluence of three rivers now visible from the Duquesne Incline.

The Warhol museum, which grew from that same industrial city, shows instead that Pittsburgh has been able to reinvent its legacy well beyond steel.