Itinerary #1 - Circling the Square

Morning

• Begin you visit at the Marietta Welcome Center in the Old Train Depot.  Here helpful volunteers will supply you with information on what there is to see and do.  Be sure to purchase a Marietta Heritage Passport – admission into 3 heritage museums for the price of 2.
• Walk next door to the Marietta Museum of History, whose eclectic collection tells the Marietta story from Indian days to the present. *A Marietta Heritage Passport site.
• Just next-door is the Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square, where you can view original book and movie memorabilia including the bengaline gown worn by Vivien Leigh.  *A Marietta Heritage Passport site.
• The tour continues to the Root House Museum, the oldest frame house in Marietta.  Learn how a middle class family lived in the 1850’s.  *A Marietta Heritage Passport site.

Lunch

• Enjoy a bite in one of the 25+ eating establishments around the Square.  From international cuisine to low country cookin’ Marietta has a restaurant for every taste bud.

Afternoon

• Take in an exhibition at the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art, located in the old post office building, c. 1909.
• Explore Marietta’s 5 National Register Historic Districts with a self-guided walking tour available at the Marietta Welcome Center or with an audio tour CD.  You can also take a ride through history aboard the Historic Marietta Trolley.
• Find out why “its hip to be square” as you browse through the unique specialty and antique shops nestled around the charming Marietta Square.

Evening

• Enjoy an evening of entertainment with dinner on the Square followed by a performance at Theatre in the Square or enjoy a musical presented by the Atlanta Lyric Theatre at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre.

Itinerary #2 - The Cannonball

Morning

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast at one of Marietta’s favorite breakfast places – New York Deli, Sugar Cakes Patisserie, Australian Bakery or the Marietta Diner.
• Visit Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, the memorial to the Atlanta Campaign, and tour the museum filled with artifacts, uniforms and period photographs.  View a short audio-visual presentation on the battle.
• Explore the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History, home of the famous locomotive, “The General” stolen during the Civil War by Andrew’s Raiders.

Lunch

• Enjoy a picnic in Glover Park in the center of the Historic Marietta Square.  You might be lucky enough to catch a concert (Noon concerts every Thursday in May & September – Evening concerts the last Friday of every month, April-August). 

Afternoon

• Take of tour of both the Marietta National Cemetery and the Marietta Confederate Cemetery.  Marietta is one of the few towns to have both.  (Marietta Confederate Cemetery brochure available at the Marietta Welcome Center)
• Explore the Marietta Museum of History – be sure to visit the Civil War exhibit, which is located in the room where Andrew’s Raiders stayed the night before stealing “The General.”
• Discover the Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum: Scarlett on the Square and view memorabilia from the book and the movie that was Margaret Mitchell’s saga of the Civil War. 

Evening

• Enjoy a sumptuous meal at Hamilton’s in the Marietta Conference Center & Resort.  The resort is built on the grounds of the old Georgia Military Academy that was destroyed by Sherman’s troops.  Afterwards stroll the grounds at Brumby Hall & Gardens next door.  This was the Superintendent’s home and the only building that remained from the Academy.

Itinerary #3 - Arts & Antiquing

Morning

• Start your day at the Marietta Welcome Center & Visitors Bureau in the historic old railroad depot, c. 1898.  Nestled in the picturesque historic town square setting, Marietta’s unique boutiques and antique shops offer everything from high-end antiques and fine art to country treasures and primitives. Shop till you drop as you browse for that unique treasure that was created to last generations
• Take a tour of the Root House Museum, the oldest frame house in Marietta.  Learn how a middle class family lived in the 1850’s and enjoy the local antiques from that period.

Lunch

• Enjoy lunch at one of the many unique restaurants around the Historic Marietta Square.

Afternoon

• Wander through the Marietta-Cobb Museum of Art located in the old post office building, c. 1909.  Enjoy one of the many American Art Exhibitions they feature throughout the year.  Or tour one our the galleries on the Marietta Square, dk Gallery, The Studio at Marietta Station, Avery Gallery, Avisca Gallery or the Thomas Kinkade Gallery located in the historic Marlow House, c. 1887.

Evening

• Take a lantern-led ghost tour through the historic streets of Marietta and discover the other side of this enchanting “gem of the South” with Ghosts of Marietta.

Itinerary # 4 - A Merry Olde Marietta Christmas

Morning

• Glimpse behind closed doors at The Marietta Pilgrimage Christmas Home Tour.  Tour six historic private homes and ten heritage public buildings furnished with antique collections and decked out in their holiday finery.  A shuttle bus service is provided along the tour route.  The tour has been named a Top 100 Event in North American and a Top Twenty Event in the Southeast.  The tour is held annually the first weekend in December. 

Lunch

• Enjoy a repast at the “Merry Olde Marietta Tearoom” a tour tradition.  The tearoom is located in a historic building along the route.

Afternoon

• Continue the Marietta Pilgrimage Tour.  Afterwards, holiday shopping is merry in the quaint shops located in historic buildings around the turn-of-the-century square.

Evening

• Be served a memorable meal in one of the charming restaurants located on the festively decorated town square. 
• Top off the evening with a Marietta holiday tradition, “The Sanders Family Christmas” at the acclaimed Theatre in the Square or enjoy a holiday musical at a production of  the Atlanta Lyric Theatre at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre.