Washington, DC
Civic Grandeur
Portrait
L'Enfant laid the city out in 1791 with diagonal avenues cutting a grid so that the Capitol and the White House would face each other across open ground, and a height limit still keeps the horizon low. Use the Mall as a working axis instead of a monument row: the Smithsonian museums along it are free, and the best hours are the first and the last.
Nearby in the atlas
Annapolis — Capital of SailWilliamsburg — The Colonial StagePhiladelphia — Cradle of the RepublicPrinceton — A Campus as Parkland
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