Ameria monuments

Go with the American lifestyle and enjoyment from coast to coast in large cities and small towns that make up the United States. This vast territory is full of wonders that will amaze the tourist, as the tall buildings of New York, the monuments of the capital, the film city of Los Angeles, the Golden Gate of San Francisco and within, the highest peaks of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. All this and more offers this country always ready to surprise the visitors.

 Capitol Hill

 


The United States Capitol is the building that houses the two chambers of the Congress of the United States. Located in Washington DC, the nation's capital. The first stage was completed in 1800 and is one of the main attractions of the city.
The building was initially designed by William Thornton and subsequently amended by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch. Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn designed the current dome and the brim of the Senate, has the great Capitol dome in the center and two adjoining buildings on each side. The north wing to the Senate and the south wing of the House of Representatives. In the upper floors are galleries for the public to observe meetings on occasion. Is an example of American neo-classical architecture.

Mount Rushmore

 In the Black Hills South Dakota, United States, stands the world's largest monument on Mount Rushmore.
The sculpture depicts the faces of four American presidents, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, representing the first 150 years of history.

                            

  

The ideologue of the now famous American icon was Doane Robinson, a lawyer and writer, who served 20 years as official historian of South Dakota, who, looking for ways to attract more tourists to the place in 1923 decided that the best way was through a huge monument carved into the rocks. To this end he chose Mount Rushmore, a massive cliff 120 meters high and 150 meters wide, which gave its magnificence to do the work. Robinson hired to implement the same to Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, which specialized in sculptures of American theme, with a history of art studies in San Francisco and Paris. 

 The White House

 

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States.

The White House was based on the draft of Palladio's Villa Rotonda. Is Renaissance or neoclassical Greek Revival in America, which was designed by George Washington and built in 1790. James Hoban the Irish architect who designed the White House. President George Washington, along with the designer of the city, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, chose the site would be built. Through a contest chose the architect, a native of Dublin, who won the gold medal for the presentation of the design we know today.

                  

 

Washington Monumentusually refers to the large white obelisk located in the west end of National Mall in Washington DC It is a memorial to the first President of the United States and leader of the revolutionary Continental Army, George Washington, who won the country's independence struggle against the British in the War of Independence. In 1884, the monument became the world's tallest structure until the Eiffel Tower was built in 1889. 

The monument is made of marble, granite, sandstone and has an altitude of 170 m. It was designed by Robert Mills, a prominent American architect of the 1840's. 

golden gate 

The famous Golden Gate Bridge, with a width of 28 m and 2.7 km long, crosses since 1937 the Straits to join San Francisco in the south, with Marin County to the north.
The Golden Gate is celebrated and honored by various places and objects that bear its name, from Universities and Bridges to Postage stamps, the famous Golden Gate graces them all with its name and image.