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Love your videos, but I've got to correct you. The Embassy of Spain is located on Pennsylvania Avenue. As a result, it isn't near the Embassy of Cuba and the Embassy of Canada isn't the only one that's located on this street
The Ring of Columns in the Canadian Embassy, is known as the Rotunda of the Provinces, which with its 12 Pillars, represent (at the time) the 10 Provinces, and 2 Territories of Canada. Of course now Canada has a 3rd Territory of Nunavut, which is represented by a seal, that is present above the entrance to the Rotunda.
I tried visiting the Embassy of Spain. I like that building, how they integrated their large office space with the street facade of row houses. But they won't let you past the inside of their door. It's really a nice foyer. In contrast to this is the FABULOUS Embassy of Finland! They let you tour inside.
The month of May , every year, is International Cultural Awareness Month in Washington, Passport DC is 31 days of programming by 70 embassies and some of DC's very best cultural institutions. In 2019, more than 250,000 people enjoyed the popular embassy open houses, street festivals, performances, exhibitions,. The embassies are all open
I have been at receptions and other types of events, relating to business, at the U.K. and Canadian Embassies as well about 20 other embassies and/or ambassadors residences, in the years I have lived in DC. Each such visit has proved interesting and it is really nice to meet embassy staff, from the country they represent. A reception at the Canadian Embassy in the Spring when the weather is especially enjoyable. They hold it on their roof terrace which gives you a great and somewhat different view of the Mall.
Excellent short introductory info. on these special five buildings, ✌️👍. I loved seeing old buildings in WDC whenever I got a touring chance in past years. Now, I no longer go into DC after dark, especially subway station in Gallery Place, Chinatown, where I once saw a young man exposed himself at me. Big Scare! 😬😕☠️
Another, less well known concentration of embassies is International Court, NW, just off the intersection of Reno Road and Van Ness Street NW. There are about a dozen foreign embassies there, including the embassies of Austria, Egypt, UAE, Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and Morocco. There is some spectacular architecture in addition to International Park. I used to walk dogs in that area and always loved seeing the beautiful buildings.
We went to the embassies' open house weekend once in May several years ago. I really enjoyed it, but we only got into 2 embassies that day since it was so crowded and the lines were so long. We went to the Finland embassy (since I am Finnish American) and the Croatian embassy (because of my husband's heritage) and then gave up on the lines when the skies opened up to a huge downpour.
I have always heard about the special annual "Embassies Tour Day", but later I heard that the waiting lines are really long, in the heat, and you only have time to visit a couple of Embassies in an entire day, so I will forego that. The British Embassy has long been noted for the theatrical group, the "Embassy Players."
2m:32s - You said: "The Embassy of Canada is actually the only embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue." Isn't the Embassy of Mexico at 1911 Pennsylvania? goo.gl/maps/3ydjLLyV8rJ2
