Louisville Kentucky is Kentucky's largest city and is known as the home of "The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports." Home to the Kentucky Derby, Louisville is located in north central Kentucky on the Kentucky Indiana border. Because it includes counties in Southern Indiana, the Louisville metropolitan are is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana. Many notable figures in history have called louisville home, including writers Sue Grafton and Hunter S. Thompson, as well as Thomas Edison, and boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Louisville has several notable events including medical advances with the first human hand transplant and the first self contained artificial heart transplant.
Louisville has no shortage of sports. Home to the Kentucky Wildcats, the University of Kentucky makes its home in Louisville. The University of Kentucky touts four players that have been selected for the Major League Baseball draft for 2009. Talk about a Louisville slugger, Kentucky produces some of the best athletes in the country. Louisville has a rich assortment of businesses, restaurants and hotels, some of which have a glamorous background. Hotels in Louisville include the Brown Hotel which became the home of the Hot Brown sandwich. Another hotel in Louisville, The Seelbach Hotel, is where F. Scott Fitzgerald makes references in his book The Great Gatsby. The Seelbach is also famous for a back room where Al Capone would regularly meet with associates during the Prohibition in the United States.
You cannot talk about Louisville without mentioning the Louisville cardinals. The Cards, as they are affectionately known, represents the very best that the University of Louisville has to offer. As a member of the Big East Conference, the Cards are known nationally as traditional power in men's basketball, women's volleyball and cheerleading and dance team. The men's basketball team epitomizes Louisville basketball. With eight trips to the Final Four, you know they are the experts in basketball. Louisville has all the charm of a small town, but the history and tradition of any major metropolis. Louisville is one place you don't want to miss.
