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Areas of interest include the Science Museum of Minnesota [1], the Minnesota State Capitol building, and the city's Civic Center, the RiverCentre . It is also home to the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the St. Paul Saints minor league baseballBaseball Part of the History of baseball series. Minor leagues are baseball leagues which are at a lower pay level and play in smaller cities and towns than do Major League Baseball. In North America, most but not all of the minor leagues are under the co team, Minnesota SwarmMinnesota Swarm is a indoor lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse League. The team begins play in January 2005 at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota The team owners had purchased the rights to the inactive Montreal Express team. The name Swa of the National Lacrosse LeagueThe National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the professional league of men's indoor lacrosse in North America. Indoor lacrosse is a less violent version of box lacrosse. Crosschecking and sticks with solid shafts are not allowed; these differences allow more ru and the Minnesota WildThe Minnesota Wild are a National Hockey League team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded 2000 Arena Xcel Energy Center Uniform colors Green and red Logo design A stylized animal's profile, with a mural of green trees, red sky and a yellow sun with a w National Hockey LeagueNHL can also denote Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma The National Hockey League (French: Ligue Nationale de Hockey is a professional sports organization composed of ice hockey teams in Canada and the United States. History The National Hockey League, as it exists t team, which plays at the local Xcel Energy CenterXcel Energy Center is a sports arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the home of the NHL's Minnesota Wild. The city of Saint Paul owns the arena. It opened in the fall of 2000 and it is called by fans the "X". In addition, Xcel Energy Center is regularly.
Nearby attractions include the Mississippi RiverThis page is about the river in the United States; for other uses, see Mississippi River (disambiguation). The Mississippi River is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. Taken t which forms the southwest and southern border of Saint Paul, the Mall of AmericaThe Mall of America (also MOA or MoA is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. The mall became the largest shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1992. However, the mall is not and has never been the lar in Bloomington, and the Minnesota State Fair's [2] grounds. The fair is open during the two weeks prior to and including Labor Day. It takes place in northern Saint Paul next to the suburb of Falcon Heights, and just north of what is called the Midway, appropriately defining the midway point between downtown districts of the Twin Cities. Immediately west of the state fairgrounds is the "Saint Paul Campus" of the University of Minnesota. The Cathedral of Saint Paul [3] is home to the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and numerous other religious organizations exist in the metropolitan area. Bordering the southwest edge of Saint Paul and the southeastern tip of Minneapolis is the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Also notable is the Fort Snelling National Historic Site, which lies on the bluff above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Just below the bluff is Fort Snelling State Park[4], which incorporates Pike Island named for the explorer Zebulon Pike.
Saint Paul is the birthplace of renowned author, F Scott Fitzgerald, as well as cartoonist Charles M. Schulz ( Peanuts). Because of the association with Schulz, Saint Paul regularly has events centering around the Snoopy family. For the past several years, local artists have painted and decorated giant Peanuts sculptures around the city. These have been very popular with tourists.
Major corporations headquartered in the Saint Paul area include 3M, source of products such as Scotch-Tape™, Thinsulate™ and Post-It™ notes; Saint Paul Travelers [5], a major insurance firm; and Lawson Software, a business software and support company.