Sitting astride the Cumberland River in the northern part of central Tennessee, Nashville is located halfway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, right in the heart of the eastern United States. From the palace of the state government - the highest point of the city - a compact and busy stretch of one-way streets and tall office buildings extending towards east to Broadway, the central artery of Nashville.

To the south-east of the palace of government, along the 2nd Ave and Broadway, the restoration of historical buildings has given rise to a tourist area called ‘the District’. Music Row, the other main commercial district, is located a kilometer and a half southwest of the center.

Among the new suburbs in the city’s expansion, it is difficult to identify with a particular character, except in a few cases. Elliston Place, the neighborhood of alternative culture, is located a kilometer and a half west of the center, north of West End Ave Immediately south is the campus of Vanderbilt University. East of Elliston Place, bordering the university, the Centennial Park is home to the Parthenon, who had pretended to show themselves at the Centennial Exposition of 1897. The whole area is known as West End, and its center consists of a variety of restaurants along Broadway and West End Ave on both sides of the university. It may happen that you hear mentioned the area as’ the vicinity of Vanderbilt ‘.

Many tourists do not even bring the foot in downtown Nashville and restrict their visit to the gigantic Opryland complex a few miles north-east of the city. Here, the prefabricated Music Valley has resulted in a neighborhood made up of tourist motel economic, franchise restaurants and shops of clothes at a low cost. The airport is located 13 kilometers east of the center. The Greyhound bus stop in the middle.