3 May 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a
U.S. national memorial in
Washington, D.C. , honoring service members of the
U.S. armed forces who served in the
Vietnam War . The two-acre (8,100 m²) site is dominated by two
black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South East Asia during the war. The Memorial Wall was designed by American architect
Maya Lin and is an example of
minimalist architecture. The Wall, completed in 1982, has since been supplemented with the statue
Three Soldiers in 1984 and the
Vietnam Women’s Memorial in 1993.
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5 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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The National Mall is a
landscaped park near the
downtown area of
Washington, D.C. , the
capital city of the
United States . It contains and borders a number of museums of the
Smithsonian Institution , art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues. It is administered by the
National Park Service (NPS) of the
United States Department of the Interior as part of the
National Mall and Memorial Parks unit of the
National Park System . The park receives approximately 24 million visitors each year. Designed by
Pierre L’Enfant , the “Grand Avenue” or Mall was to be a democratic and egalitarian space—unlike palace gardens, such as those at
Versailles in France, that were paid for by the people but reserved for the use of a privileged few.
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19 March 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the meeting place of the
United States Congress and the
seat of the
legislative branch of the
U.S. federal government . It is located on
Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the
National Mall in
Washington, D.C. Though no longer at the geographic center of the
federal district , the Capitol forms the origin point for the district’s street-numbering system and the
district’s four quadrants .
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27 November 2013 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Bon voyage , Theme Weeks
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Washington, D.C., formally the
District of Columbia and commonly referred to as
Washington ,
“the District” , or simply
D.C. , is the capital of the United States. The signing of the
Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a
capital district located along the
Potomac River on the country’s
East Coast . As permitted by the
U.S. Constitution , the District is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States Congress and is therefore not a part of any U.S. state. The states of
Maryland and
Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the preexisting settlements of
Georgetown and
Alexandria ; however,
Congress returned the Virginia portion in 1846. Named in honor of
George Washington , the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. Congress created a
single municipal government for the whole District of Columbia after the
American Civil War .
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