America celebrates its 241st Independence Day

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America celebrates its 241st Independence Day

Traditionally, there are parades, concerts, shows and many other outdoor events and most of them are being organized in the federal capital of Washington D.C.

Just like every year, there will soldiers, civilians and numerous floats parading under the keen eyes of US president Donald Trump.

A small gathering will take place at the White House and most soldiers will join their families on a picnic hosted by the president himself.

All the events, including an impressive fireworks show, will take place in Washington, a city founded on July 16, 1790, and named after the first president of the United States, George Washington (1732-1799).

Over the years, Washington became the home of countless memorials and monuments, libraries and museums, galleries and gardens and last but not least, some of America’s most significant treasures: the White House, The Capitol, the seat of the American Congress, The Lincoln Memorial, depicted by a temple built in the most amazing Doric style, and whose columns represent the 36 states founded during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865).

Let’s not forget about the The Washington Monument, a 169 meter high obelisk, built between 1848 and 1884 in the memory of America’s first president, George Washington, The Library of Congress, the largest library in the country, founded in 1800, the National Art Gallery founded in 1937, The Aero-Spatial National Museum, which holds the largest collection of aerospace exhibits in the world, The Smithsonian Institute, the world’s largest museum, educational and research complex set up in 1846, The famous Union Station, built in 1907 and many more.

US’ form of government is a federal republic, historically constituted by the freely consensual union of 50 states (plus a federal district and the “associate state” of Puerto Rico).