WASHINGTON D.C. HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS & STREET ART – 8K

Our run begins alongside Joan of Arc, triumphantly sitting atop her horse, cast in bronze and wielding her sword at the south end of Meridian Hill Park. We’ll follow her gaze south, winding through the neighborhood of Adams Morgan, a noted historic hub for counterculture. This is illustrated in the stories-tall mural art on the buildings here in northwest DC. The tallest mural we will pass is a seventy-foot illustration paying homage to DC jazz saxophonist and mailman, Buck Hill.

Running east towards Ben’s Chili Bowl, home of the half smoke, we’ll stop to see ‘The Torch,’ a mural honoring area greats from Harriet Tubman to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. This same alley connects us to ‘Kindred,’ an expansive piece addressing how we judge both art and people.

‘DC Jazz Heroes’, a mixed media mural in the neighborhood of Shaw is our next stop. Depicting music royalty, this piece sits where the historic Frank Holiday’s Pool Room lived decades ago; the venue served as the musical incubator for a young Duke Ellington. Running through Shaw, we’ll visit Chinatown and Penn Quarter, neighborhoods that draw residents and travelers alike for their fun bars and great dining. Our local sports teams, the Capitals and Wizards, play their home games here at the twenty-thousand-person capacity arena, and, while the teams are away, the world’s biggest musical acts perform to sellout crowds.

Beyond the bustle of downtown, we’ll take in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (open 10am-5pm daily). A showcase of contemporary art, the Sculpture Garden curation is playful and worthy of appreciation. And as the weather turns cold and the Sculpture Garden’s Pavillion Cafe switches from serving lemonades to hot cocoas, the cascading fountain freezes, turning into an ice rink for the winter. Our run finishes here and you’re free to take in all the National Mall has to offer or kick your feet up and relax among the whimsical works of Claes Oldenburg and Auguste Rodin.

PICK-UP SERVICE
Pick-up service from your hotel/apartment or another meeting point is possible and will be checked by the tour provider individually. If your hotel/apartment should be too far away from the city centre or not close to the tour route, then we will meet you at our standard meeting point.

MEETING DETAILS
The tour provider will get in contact with you to provide you with more detailed information after the tour was booked. Please, bring along your mobile phone in case we need to contact each other.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

• Private guide/tour
• Individual pace
• Digital photos
• Tour route
• Pick-up service
• Water