Visit of Savannah last sunday. Savannah, one of the oldest town in the US, founded in 1733.

The architect and founder of the city, general James Edward Oglethorpe structured the city as a grid of 24 squares on top of a denser street grid, along the Savannah river.

Numerous public buildings like the courthouse or the post office, old churches and historic houses (several centuries old) such as the "Owens-Thomas House", were built around the squares, Lafayette square, Madison square, Calhoun square, Wright square, etc...

The streets are sided with nice and ancient townhouses, southern style... The inventive city pattern makes the city very pedestrian friendly, the whole city can be visited on foot, walking from one square to another, which is a feature you would usually see more in Europe than in America.

The city offers also extensive patches of green vegetation, lots of Live Oaks and other southern trees like the maniolias (covered with spanish moss!)...

It can even be difficult to take pictures of a building without having at least half of the picture taken by branch trees.

Pictures here (public): http://windal.net/gallery/Savannah as well as in the private album.