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5. Coffee and Culture, 9 a.m.

Many grocery stores have coffee bars and cafes, but few occupy a place in Clevelanders’ hearts like the new Heinen’s Grocery Store downtown. Last year, the local chain that specializes in prepared foods moved into the 1908 Cleveland Trust Company Building, featuring an 85-foot-high leaded-glass ceiling bordered by 13 murals depicting the history of the region by the painter Francis Davis Millet who died on the Titanic. Grab a cappuccino ($2.75) and a blueberry muffin ($1.99) from the Equal Exchange Espresso Bar and crane your neck upward from the central tables for a look at those murals. Come back after noon to get a bit closer at the wine and craft beer Balcony Bar on the second floor.

6. Gateway Gaping, 10 a.m.

Until Sept. 18, the Gateway District, a community development association that has been active in Cleveland’s downtown renaissance, is offering free heritage tours called Take a Hike. The 90-minute Saturday outing focuses on the history and architecture of downtown’s Euclid Avenue, a once-bustling 19th-century shopping district, now the focus of residential and commercial projects adapting the grand old buildings. Costumed characters, including an actor playing the city’s early 20th-century reformist mayor Tom Johnson, provide history, but the design focus en route is on the handsome collection of vintage buildings being preserved.

7. Arcade Buyer, 11:30 a.m.

Take a Hike tours meet at the Arcade, one of three elegant glass-topped, blocklong malls in the area modeled on European shopping arcades including Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The five-floor Arcade, with scrolling iron balconies, is largely occupied by a hotel; the two across the street, the former Colonial (1898) and Euclid (1911) Arcades, now operating as the 5th Street Arcades, warrant doubling back to browse the new tenants that are trying to revive retail downtown. There are souvenir shops, including We Bleed Ohio; others offer unique wares including Fra Angelica Studio for local art and fashion, L’Amour Du Noir for edgy men’s casual wear, and Happy Hour Collection, selling vintage and new bar ware.

8. Eating Ohio City, 1 p.m.

Just west of downtown, Ohio City, which was annexed by Clevelandin 1854, still attests to the heritage of its original European immigrant population, particularly in the historic West Side Market, a1912 landmark bustling with produce, dairy and meat vendors. Grab a made-to-order spinach, egg and Gruyère ($7) crepe from Crepes de Luxe and take a perch on the second-story mezzanine for a view over the market and its vaulted brick ceiling. As an artisan culinary district, Ohio City offers a rich progressive feast, including a generous scoop of chocolate peanut butter cup ($3.50) for dessert at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, where you can watch the Wonka-like creamery works behind glass. Wash it down with an Eliot Ness amber lager ($6) from the city’s most decorated microbrewery, Great Lakes Brewing, at its handsome mahogany bar.

9. Art History 101, 3 p.m.

Holding the treasures amassed by early industrialists, the Cleveland Museum of Art (free) in University Circle has a collection of nearly 45,000 pieces, including a 19th-century royal Persian tent, a recently restored Caravaggio, and Impressionist masterworks led by one of Claude Monet’s oversized water lily canvases. Now celebrating its centennial, the museum added a compelling architectural draw in 2013 when it was expanded by the architect Rafael Viñoly, creating a 39,000-square-foot glass-roofed atrium bounded by the original neo-Classical building and new wings. The museum’s Provenance Café offers courtyard seating from which to admire the grandeur over flatbread ($7.75) and wine (half bottles $12).

10. The Cleveland Sound, 7:30 p.m.

Downtown’s Playhouse Square calls itself the country’s largest performing arts center outside of New York, with nine theaters in a one-block radius, many staging touring productions. But for homegrown talent, book a date with the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. When it’s not touring the world, the orchestra, under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst, who is closely associated with the Vienna Philharmonic, performs most of the year in University Circle’s Severance Hall, an opulent, 1931-vintage concert hall as elegant as the music performed there. In the summer, catch them with the picnic crowd at Blossom Music Center, about 25 miles south of the city.