Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Washington, United States

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 4.6 km
Ascend 73 m
Descend 88 m

Explore Washington in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Washington

Sight 1: Capitol Hill

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Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in both Northeast D.C. and Southeast D.C.. Dominated by the United States Capitol, which sits on the highest point of Capitol Hill, it is one of the oldest historic districts in Washington. Home to around 35,000 people in just under 2 square miles (5 km2), Capitol Hill is also one of the most densely populated neighborhoods. The name "Capitol Hill" is frequently used as a metonym for the U.S. Congress.

Wikipedia: Capitol Hill (EN)

633 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument

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The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The monument is named after suffragists and National Woman's Party leaders Alva Belmont and Alice Paul.

Wikipedia: Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument (EN), Website

650 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: Union Station Plaza

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Union Station Plaza

Columbus Circle, also known as Union Station Plaza or Columbus Plaza, is a traffic circle at the intersection of Delaware, Louisiana and Massachusetts Avenues and E and First Streets, Northeast in Washington, D.C. It is located in front of Union Station right next to the grounds of the United States Capitol. Union Station and its access roads interrupt this circle on one side, forming an arc.

Wikipedia: Columbus Circle (Washington, D.C.) (EN)

10 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: American Legion Freedom Bell

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Freedom Bell, American Legion, is a public artwork located at Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States. A replica of the Liberty Bell, Freedom Bell, American Legion was surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database in 1985.

Wikipedia: Freedom Bell, American Legion (EN)

562 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Acacia Griffins

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Acacia Griffins are public artworks by American sculptor Edmond Amateis, located at the Acacia Building at 51 Louisiana Avenue N.W., in Washington, D.C., United States.

Wikipedia: Acacia Griffins (EN)

573 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: George Gordon Meade Memorial

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The George Gordon Meade Memorial, also known as the Meade Memorial or Major General George Gordon Meade, is a public artwork in Washington, D.C. honoring George Meade, a career military officer from Pennsylvania who is best known for defeating General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. The monument is sited on the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse. It was originally located at Union Square, but was removed and placed in storage for fourteen years before being installed at its current location. The statue was sculpted by Charles Grafly, an educator and founder of the National Sculpture Society, and was a gift from the state of Pennsylvania. Prominent attendees at the dedication ceremony in 1927 included President Calvin Coolidge, Governor John Stuchell Fisher, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, and Senator Simeon D. Fess.

Wikipedia: George Gordon Meade Memorial (EN)

759 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial

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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is a United States presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. honoring Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II and the 34th President of the United States.

Wikipedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial (EN), Website

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Delta Solar

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Delta Solar

Delta Solar is a public artwork by Venezuelan sculptor Alejandro Otero located outside of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, United States. Delta Solar is meant to pay homage to modern technology and the Inca sun cult.

Wikipedia: Delta Solar (EN)

178 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Figure for Landscape

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Figure for Landscape is a bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, modeled in 1960.

Wikipedia: Figure for Landscape (EN)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Clamdigger

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Clamdigger is a bronze sculpture by Willem de Kooning. It may have been inspired by "the men who dug for clams along the beaches" near his home in East Hampton, New York. It has been described as one of his "extraordinarily tactile figurative sculptures" that "seemed pulled from the primordial ooze," and "as part man, part creature of the mud and the shallows."

Wikipedia: Clamdigger (de Kooning) (EN)

73 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)

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Are Years What? is a sculpture by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C., United States. The sculpture is named after poet Marianne Moore's "What Are Years". From May 22, 2013 through May 26, 2014, the sculpture resided temporarily in San Francisco, as part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Mark di Suvero exhibition at Crissy Field.

Wikipedia: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore) (EN)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden

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Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden / PD

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It was conceived as the United States' museum of contemporary and modern art and currently focuses its collection-building and exhibition-planning mainly on the post–World War II period, with particular emphasis on art made during the last 50 years.

Wikipedia: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (EN)

1 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Cubi XII

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Cubi XII is an abstract sculpture by David Smith.

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17 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: For Gordon Bunshaft

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For Gordon Bunshaft Original work: Dan GrahamDepiction: 19h00s / Fair use

For Gordon Bunshaft is a 2006 sculpture by Dan Graham, installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., United States. The work, which refers to American architect Gordon Bunshaft, was installed by the reflection pool of the Bunshaft-designed sculpture garden at the Hirshhorn on May 30, 2008.

Wikipedia: For Gordon Bunshaft (EN)

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Brushstroke

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Brushstroke is a sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein. There are two copies. The original was created in 2001 for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. The second was delivered to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, on September 16, 2003, and dedicated on October 25, 2003.

Wikipedia: Brushstroke (EN)

48 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Eros, Inside Eros

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Eros, Inside Eros (1986) is a bronze sculpture by Arman.

Wikipedia: Eros, Inside Eros (EN)

152 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Geometric Mouse

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Geometric Mouse, Variation I, Scale A is an abstract sculpture by Claes Oldenburg. created in 1971.

Wikipedia: Geometric Mouse, Variation I, Scale A (EN)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Andrew Jackson Downing Urn

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The Andrew Jackson Downing Urn, also known as the Downing Urn, is a memorial and public artwork located in the Enid A. Haupt Garden of the Smithsonian Institution on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery TimothyJ / CC BY 2.0

The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., focusing on Asian art. The Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. The Freer and Sackler galleries house the largest Asian art research library in the country.

Wikipedia: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (EN), Website

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