NATIONAL MALL, National Mall

Hello, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world and one of the planet’s most popular attractions: the National Mall, visited by over 24 million tourists a year.

As you can see, the National Mall is a three-kilometer-long park that runs from the Capitol Building to the Lincoln Memorial, with the Washington obelisk towering above it in the center.

Originally conceived by the architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant as a long, tree-lined avenue that was never actually built, the National Mall was completed in the early years of the 20th century, by the McMillan Commission, a pool of experts who took on the task of continuing the original plan of the city, combining other gardens and even moving a railway station that had been built in the meantime behind the Washington Monument. My advice is to walk right along the Mall, so you can admire the numerous mausoleums, statues and monuments located on it, or the museums surrounding it, such as the National Gallery of Art, or those run by the Smithsonian Institution, including the Air and Space Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum....