Fun Facts About Pittsburgh

Ride the Duquesne or Monongahela Incline to the top of Mount Washington for one of the most stunning city views. Named one of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Places in America by USA Today Weekend Magazine.
The Pittsburgh area is home to two fireworks companies, Zambelli International and Pyrotecnico. Both are located just 40 miles outside of Pittsburgh in the town of New Castle, which is known as the Fireworks Capital of America.
Pittsburgh, called the City of Bridges, has more than 446 bridges.

Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowls.
Pittsburgh Penguins have won three Stanley Cups.
CONSOL Energy Center, the new home of Pittsburgh Penguins, has 18,087 seats in honor of #87 Sidney Crosby. It’s the first NHL arena to be Gold-LEED certified.
Bike the Great Allegheny Passage – a 150-mile trail that connects the C&O Canal Trail in Cumberland, M.D., creating a 355-mile off-road route between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. Completion set for Nov. 2011.
Can you come up with the only country club to have hosted seven U.S. Opens? It’s Oakmont Country Club. Oakmont has beaten golf’s best, and is the only course named a national historic landmark. Oakmont’s legendary lightning-fast greens, thick rough and plentiful bunkers have played host to a record 18 major golf championships, including seven U.S. Opens. Golf Digest ranks Oakmont #4 in its most recent version of America’s Top 100 courses.
Pittsburgh hosted the first NHL regular season hockey game played outdoors at night, January 1, 2011. The NHL Winter Classic took place at Heinz Field, home of the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers, before 68,111 fans.
The popular PPG outdoor ice rink at PPG Place is 2,000-square feet - and is larger than the rink at New York’s Rockefeller Center.

Surprisingly, it was Pittsburgh, not Hollywood, which opened the first motion picture theater in the United States in 1905. It was the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street.
Pittsburgh & Its Countryside boasts a fantastic array of architecture, from H.H. Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
Pittsburgh has its own star factory from Christina Aguilera, Michael Keaton and Dennis Miller to Jeff Goldblum, Gene Kelly and Stephen Foster.
The Oakland section of Pittsburgh is the real “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The show was been broadcast from WQED, the first public educational television station in America. And, Fred Rogers lived just around the corner.
Pittsburgh has been an inspiration for many artists and writers through the years, including natives like impressionist Mary Cassatt and pop artist Andy Warhol and environmentalist Rachel Carson.
PPG Place is the world headquarters for PPG Industries. Architect Philip Johnson created this 40-story “glass castle” with more than 19,000 panes of glass.

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