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Spend a day in the city enjoying nature at the Louisville Nature Center. Discover native wildflower gardens and a pond, butterfly gardens, bird blind, wildlife exhibits and hiking trails that lead you through the Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve. Be sure to pack a pack a lunch and relax at the picnic tables under the gazebo.

Celebrate Romeo and Juliet at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, the oldest free festival in the United States. Get together with 15,000 Shakespearian festival-goers that know the event as Shakespeare in the Park, a summer cultural event featuring live theatrical Shakespeare performances.

Float away together on the Belle of Louisville, the oldest operating Mississippi-style steamboat in the world. Sign up for the two hour romantic sunset cruise down the scenic Ohio River while enjoying a delicious dinner and a night under the stars on the historic paddlewheel steamboat.