Monuments and memorials, grand Neoclassical buildings and broad avenues, eclectic neighbourhoods and true local flavour – Washington, DC is a capital city unlike any other.

Despite its stately facade, visitors are often pleasantly surprised by the number of new innovative and trendy places popping up in DC and upping the hipness factor in neighbourhoods from Capitol Hill to U Street.

Alongside the patriotic monuments and highly influential political institutions such as Congress and the White House, you will find some of the most impressive museums on earth: The National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of American History, Freer-Sackler Museums of Asian Art – all here, all free, always.

While the principles of Equality, Justice, Life and Liberty are still revered and strongly upheld in Washington DC, this is, above all, a vibrant, cosmopolitan and spectacularly interesting destination.