We explored the area round Independence Hall, the centre of Benjamin Franklin’s city, close to the river and sacred space for American tourists.   I preferred the muscularity of the two neoclassical banks:  the First Bank of the United States, designed by Samuel Blodget jr., who also produced designs for the Capitol:-

And the Second Bank, based on the Parthenon:-

Then we walked through Society Hill, with its surviving row houses:-

Lunch at the Fourth Street Delicatessen:-

And back through what survives of the early nineteenth-century city, up Pine Street and Antique Row:-