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Southern hospitality is a point of pride for this port, the oldest city in South Carolina and a center of U.S. commerce since the country’s Colonial days. Cobblestone streets, shaded by drooping live oaks and tangled Spanish moss, are lined with stately homes and fragrant flower gardens. Horse-drawn carriages are a popular mode of transportation for guided tours of the city and its historic neighborhoods. This is a spot that takes obvious care to welcome visitors and present them with a charming, friendly destination for the duration of their stay.

Visitors often are drawn to sites related to Charleston’s Civil War history. Sprawling plantations trace the city’s background as a Southern center of the slave trade; many have been converted to museums and art galleries. A number of naval and maritime museums pay tribute to Charleston’s three-century-long prominence as a military and shipping hub, including Fort Sumter along the city’s harbor.

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