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Visiting Newark is like eating a bag of your favorite potato chips – it’s hard to just have one. The urban heart of New Jersey, Newark is the state’s biggest metropolis and is home to an arts and culture renaissance that features major performing arts and sports venues as well as restaurants, galleries and museums.

Some of the city’s highlights are within easy walking distance of each other in the downtown section. The glittering NJ Performing Arts Center is a stunning performance venue that hosts national and international headline performers.

The new Prudential Center, a state-of-the-art arena built for the NHL’s Stanley Cup champion NJ Devils, also presents concerts plus major special and family events, Seton Hall college basketball and more.

New Jersey’s largest museum complex, the Newark Museum (49 Washington St.), houses an intimate planetarium, the restored Ballantine Victorian mansion, New Jersey-centric natural history displays and a prestigious collection of fine art painting and sculptures. The museum just celebrated its centennial in 2009.

While in Newark, explore the Ironbound District, renowned for its Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish cuisine.

Don’t miss:

• The thousands of cherry blossoms that fill Branch Brook Park in spring.

• Riodizio, skewers of roasted meat served tableside at Iberia and Iberian Iberia Peninsula Portuguese Restauranton Ferry Street in Ironbound.

• Newark Bears minor league baseball at Riverfront Stadium.

Local secret:

The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (89 Ridge St.). This French Gothic, stained glass-filled church is where Pope John Paul II held Mass when he visited NJ in 1995.

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