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• New Jersey
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New Jersey is situated between Hudson and Delaware, in the southwest of New York City. Some of its northern part is occupied by the Appalachian Mountains. The two-kilometer-long atlantic beaches of New Jersey cover the largest range of fine sands in the whole country. Since 150 years, it attracts the sun lovers from Philadelphia to New York. |
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Capital : Trenton
Surface : 21,277 km 2
Population : 8,052,849
Newark : 275,221
Jersey City : 228,537
Paterson : 140,.891
Elizabeth : 110,002 |
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Asbury Park
Atlantic City
Liberty State Park
Lighthouses of New Jersey
Morristown
Six Flags Amusement Park
The Laboratories of Thomas Alfa Edison
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Discover the USA, the online guide dedicated to your journey in the United States of America | | | In a bit more than an hour away from New York, you can access directly to the Jersey riverbanks, by train from Pennsylvania Station, by bus from the New York Port Authority Road Station, or by car.
Many of New Jersey’s seaside cities have marvelously maintained public beaches. Two of the most famous are : Sandy Hook (an hour away from New York, through the Off State 36), and Island Beach State Parks (50 miles on the north of Atlantic City). In Sandy Hook, we can find the country’s oldest lighthouse, constructed in 1763, and still in activity until now. | | Atlantic City The State’s seaside resort has a long 8-mile "croisette", with one of the world’s oldest wooden sidewalk, where lots of shops, bars, music halls, and amusement places welcome the tourists all year long. Atlantic City is where the annual Miss America Pageant takes place every September.
In the internal side of the land, in Morristown, you will discover the manor where George Washington spent one winter during the war. The Historical Museum and Library is a real source of documentation about the colonial and the revolutionary time. |  | Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
The building standing on Ellis Island, now restored, has witnessed the life history of twelve million immigrants between 1892 and 1954.
A little bit further, still within the boundaries of New Jersey, lies the Statue of Liberty, inaugurated on October 28, 1886.
The great Lady Liberty witnesses a long history of friendship and cooperation between the United States and France, for she was made at the Eiffel workshops by the renowned French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, and then offered as a present from France to the United States of America. | | | Trenton Capital of the State, Trenton is an industrial city. We will visit (8 miles to the northwest, in the Washington’s Crossing village on the Delaware River), the place where George Washington made his famous "Delaware Crossing", after having taken the risk to cross the frozen Delaware River in winter, on December 25, 1776, first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces at Trenton. One of the most decisive moments in the American Revolution.
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| West Orange The city of Thomas Edison. We will find here the great inventor’s library, his laboratory, his working place and his house, before he moved to Florida in the later years of his life. | | | Cape May A charming station on the seaside, where we can admire more than six hundred restored Victorian houses, in a 19th century American life setting.
Princeton, 50 miles away from New York, a charming city, home to the Princeton University, where Albert Einstein once lectured. Its Nassau Hall was constructed in 1756.
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