Capitol Hill - tour

  On Capitol Hill, it was decided to erect a building of the U.S. Congress - the Capitol - modeled on the history of the Roman state. The ideology of the Capitol building arose from the fashionable at that time trend in architecture - classicism and the U.S. Constitution, which provided for the joint work of the two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. As a result, the building has two identical wings for meetings of both houses of Congress and the central part - the Rotunda.
  The Rotunda's main hall is decorated with paintings, murals, and sculptures of prominent American people. The center of the Rotunda is considered the center of the city. The Rotunda and other halls are open to the public. You can even attend meetings of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  The dome of the Capitol rests on a colonnade reminiscent of the Colonnade of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. The dome is crowned by an elegant lantern with the Statue of Liberty on top.
  In 1935, the Palace of Justice, the U.S. Supreme Court, grew on Capitol Square. Before that, the court was housed in the Capitol building. If you walk up the steps to the entrance of the Supreme Court building, you can take pictures of the allegorical sculptures "Reflections of Justice" and "The Power of the Law" as a memento. The U.S. Supreme Court is open to the public. Visitors are offered tours. You can watch films, listen to lectures, or observe an actual trial. On the same Capitol Square stand 3 buildings of the Library of Congress, bearing the names of the founding fathers of the American state and the most active founders of successive second, third and fourth U.S. presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world, containing 26 million books, over 36 million manuscripts, maps, photographs, as well as the archives of 23 U.S. presidents. The library building itself is a work of art. It is the nation's oldest public cultural institution and the largest library in the world. Its interiors are a work of art, so the Library of Congress is one of the main attractions in Washington.
 

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