Spotlight
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Columbia offers a wide range of recreation; exciting attractions and spectator sports; and top-notch meeting facilities.
Visitors
Welcome to Columbia, where we're Famously Hot!
It will be steamy in South Carolina's capital city today, where year-round fun and exploration heat up the cosmopolitan scene. With fiery restaurants, hotels, live music and theater venues -- our brand of low to no-cost fun will make your visit sizzle. We're proud of our simmer and spark, our firebrand history and bright, shining future. We invite you to Columbia to sample the sultry South, with generous helpings of Carolina hospitality.
Enjoy an abundance of activities including the following:
- Top attractions in the Capital
- Take a public art walking tour
- Explore our rivers
- Discover Lake Murray
- Historic Columbia house museum tours
- Set off on a progressive dining and art tour
- Hot barbecue
- Sample Columbia's local style when shopping in Five Points
- Kid Tested, Mother Approved family activities
- Escape to the enchanting Congaree National Park
- Nights at the Nick, Columbia's indie movie theater
