Nashville City Map Poster

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Nashville map poster

Nashville sits in a bend of the Cumberland River, and the city's shape follows from it: downtown pressed up against the water, bridges stitching the core to East Nashville, and the land rising into hills and hollows as it spreads southwest toward Percy Warner Park and Radnor Lake. Three interstates — I-40, I-65 and I-24 — meet here, which is part of why a city of this size feels like a hub rather than a destination at the end of a line. A map of Nashville ends up being a map of that convergence, with the grid of downtown loosening into the curves and ridgelines of the neighborhoods beyond.

The music history is the reason most people know the name. Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, the Ryman Auditorium, the recording studios clustered on Music Row, the Grand Ole Opry out by the river — these are all within a few miles of each other, which is easy to forget until the city is laid out flat. Add Vanderbilt, the full-scale Parthenon replica in Centennial Park, and the neighborhoods that have taken on lives of their own — Germantown, 12South, The Gulch, East Nashville — and the geography starts to explain a lot about how the city works.

This print suits anyone with a reason to keep Nashville on a wall: years lived there, a run of good nights on Broadway, a move away that didn't quite take. It is made to be looked at rather than navigated by.

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Location

Tennessee, United States

Collection

Cityscapes