Our region offers an unmatched combination of natural beauty, small-town comforts and cosmopolitan culture. Consistently ranked among the top small cities in the nation, Charlottesville is home to Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia and its associated world-class teaching hospital. The town also features distinguished museums and galleries, spacious parks and a flourishing downtown pedestrian mall with a variety of shops, services and restaurants of a caliber usually found only in major metropolitan areas. In the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains lie the Shenandoah National Park, the Skyline Drive and the four-season Wintergreen Resort. Dozens of vineyards and wineries are scattered among the historic farms and estates of this lush, rolling countryside that Jefferson fondly named “the Eden of the United States.”