Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Washington, United States

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.4 km
Ascend 210 m
Descend 190 m

Experience Washington in United States in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Washington

Sight 1: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington D.C., dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and to the era he represents. The memorial is one of two in Washington honoring Roosevelt.

Wikipedia: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (EN), Website

707 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: DC War Memorial

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The District of Columbia War Memorial commemorates the citizens of the District of Columbia who served in World War I. Located on the National Mall, it was constructed in 1931 as a domed, peristyle Doric temple.

Wikipedia: District of Columbia War Memorial (EN)

1755 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 3: Bearing Witness

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Bearing WitnessTim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0

Bearing Witness is an outdoor 1997 sculpture by Martin Puryear, installed outside the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Twenty plus years after its construction the sculpture follows the characteristic style of Puryear and remains standing with minimal maintenance twenty plus years after its construction. The meaning of the sculpture is left up to interpretation, although many observers read into the inspirations Puryear may have had when designing the work.

Wikipedia: Bearing Witness (sculpture) (EN)

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski

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General Casimir Pulaski is a bronze equestrian statue of Casimir Pulaski, a military man born in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He joined the military at a young age, fighting for removal of the king, who was backed by Russia. After his side lost the war, he fled to Paris, where he met Benjamin Franklin. Impressed by Pulaski, Franklin wrote a letter of recommendation to George Washington, suggesting he would be a helpful soldier during the American Revolutionary War. After arriving in the U.S., Pulaski eventually was promoted to Brigadier General and commanded a cavalry unit, the Pulaski's Legion. He died in 1779 due to injuries sustained in battle.

Wikipedia: General Casimir Pulaski (statue) (EN), Heritage Website

431 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

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Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at Lincoln's head. After being shot, the fatally wounded Lincoln was carried across the street to the nearby Petersen House, where he died the next morning.

Wikipedia: Ford's Theatre (EN), Website

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Louis Daguerre Statue

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Louis Daguerre Statue

The Daguerre Memorial is a bronze and granite sculpture by Jonathan Scott Hartley in Washington, D.C. It was erected in memory of Louis Daguerre.

Wikipedia: Daguerre Memorial (EN)

433 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: General Winfield Scott Hancock

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General Winfield Scott Hancock is an equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock, by Henry Jackson Ellicott together with architect Paul J. Pelz. It is located at Pennsylvania Avenue in United States Navy Memorial Park at the northwest corner of 7th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.

Wikipedia: General Winfield Scott Hancock (Ellicott) (EN)

428 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Captain Nathan Hale Sculpture

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Statue of Nathan Hale may refer to:Statue of Nathan Hale (Chicago) Statue of Nathan Hale

Wikipedia: Captain Nathan Hale (statue) (EN)

736 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 9: 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

136 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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.

Wikipedia: Andrew Jackson Downing Urn (EN), Inscription Url

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

109 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Cubi XII

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Cubi XII is an abstract sculpture by David Smith.

Wikipedia: Cubi XII (EN)

17 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 14: For Gordon Bunshaft

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For Gordon Bunshaft Original work: Dan Graham Depiction: 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)

28 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: 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)

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: 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 19: 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)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Four-Sided Pyramid

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Four-Sided Pyramid is a conceptual modular "structure", by Sol LeWitt, in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.

Wikipedia: Four-Sided Pyramid (EN)

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 21: Chair Transformation Number 20B

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Chair Transformation Number 20B is a 1996 abstract sculpture, by Lucas Samaras, in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.

Wikipedia: Chair Transformation Number 20B (EN)

36 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 22: Cubi XXVI

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Cubi XXVI is an abstract sculpture by David Smith, in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., US.

Wikipedia: Cubi XXVI (EN)

41 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: Cheval Rouge

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Cheval Rouge is an abstract sculpture by Alexander Calder.

Wikipedia: Cheval Rouge (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain

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An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain is a sculpture by Hector Guimard, conceived in 1902 and fabricated between 1902 and 1913. Guimard designed 141 entrances to the Paris Métro of varying types, 86 of which are still standing. One is featured at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

Wikipedia: An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain (EN)

129 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 25: Aurora

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Aurora / PD

Aurora is a public artwork by American artist Mark di Suvero. It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art and on display at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., United States.

Wikipedia: Aurora (sculpture) (EN)

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 26: Andrew Mellon Memorial Fountain

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The Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain is a bronze fountain sculpture by Sidney Waugh as a memorial to Andrew W. Mellon. It is located at the eastern tip of the Federal Triangle within the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue, and 6th Street NW in Washington D.C., United States. The fountain is across Constitution Avenue from the West Building of the National Gallery of Art. The Department of the Interior maintains the fountain, which President Harry S. Truman dedicated on May 9, 1952.

Wikipedia: Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain (EN)

291 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 27: Cubi XI

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Cubi XI is an abstract sculpture by David Smith. It is a part of the Cubi series of sculptures.

Wikipedia: Cubi XI (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 28: 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)

507 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 29: Joseph Darlington Memorial Fountain

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The Darlington Memorial Fountain, also known as the Joseph Darlington Fountain, Nymph and Fawn, and Darlington Fountain, is a sculpture by C. Paul Jennewein atop a fountain. It is located at Judiciary Park, where 5th Street, D Street, and Indiana Avenue NW intersect in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The fountain is surrounded on three sides by government buildings, including the United States Court of Military Appeals, the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse, and the former District of Columbia City Hall.

Wikipedia: Darlington Memorial Fountain (EN)

1140 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 30: 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)

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