Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and the epicenter of the New South. While the city retains some of its small-town atmosphere in many ways—such homey neighborhoods as Virginia-Highland and Little Five Points, blooming dogwoods and azaleas that politely announce springtime and the genteel hospitality practiced by true Southerners—it is far from the sleepy Southern destination that Gen. Sherman burned to ashes in his 1864 March to the Sea. Learn More...