Columbia is a city where the heat crushes the afternoons, where magnolias line the streets, and where life revolves around the Capitol, the campuses and the historic neighborhoods. It is a Southern capital, with its softness, its rhythm, and its scars too.
It highlights the city's political role in a state where tradition and modernity sometimes coexist uneasily.
Columbia is intense light, the fountains in front of the Capitol, students everywhere, museums, public buildings. A city that carries the South, with all that implies.