KENNEDY CENTER, Kennedy Center
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Language: English / USA
Hello, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world. Today I will be taking you on a tour of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Managed by the Smithsonian Institution, the center hosts around 2,000 shows every year with almost two million spectators overall. It also supports many young artists to create new works and is the home of the National Symphony Orchestra, one of the most important orchestras in the world.
The center is especially worth a visit because of its terrace, which is free to enter. From here you can enjoy one of the most beautiful panoramas over the entire city, which gives you a 360° view of its skyline.
The building has three large theaters–the Concert Hall, the Opera House and the Eisenhower Theater–as well as many event spaces, and has a total of 7,141 seats. It is shaped like a pagoda and, as you can see, is truly gigantic. In fact, it is 30 meters high, 190 meters long and 90 meters wide, almost as big at two soccer fields....