interesting facts about birmingham alabama:
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s University Hospital is among the world’s top kidney transplant centers.
Birmingham has one of the “Top Ten Bars Worth Flying For,” according to GQ magazine. bar is called The Garages
Birmingham is Alabama’s largest city.
Birmingham’s Ruffner Mountain, just ten minutes from downtown, is the second largest urban nature preserve in the country.
Begun in 1975, Birmingham’s annual “Miss Apollo Pageant” is now the second oldest continuously running drag queen pageant in the country.
Birmingham’s role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s placed it “at the center of the most significant domestic drama of the 20th century….”
Birmingham is the only place in the world where all the ingredients for making iron are present: coal, iron ore and limestone—all within a ten-mile radius.
Birmingham is known as the founding city for the recognition of Veterans Day and hosts the nation’s oldest and largest Veterans Day celebration.
Vonetta Flowers, the first African-American to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics (2002 –bobsledding), is a track coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Birmingham is home to the nation’s oldest baseball park, Rickwood Field, which opened in 1910 and hosted baseball greats such as Jackie Robinson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lorenzo “Piper” Davis, Willie Mays and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
With 10,000 pieces, the Birmingham Museum of Art houses the largest museum collection of Wedgwood in the world.
Wine enthusiasts often are surprised to find vineyards and wineries in the greater Birmingham area. They are also eager to do sampling along the local Wine Trail, especially the delicate peach wines made from local fruit.