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Cultural Tourism DC

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relate the history of DC's communities through poster-sized street signs displaying text, maps, and historic photos. The 1-to-2-mile (1.6 to 3.2 km) walking tours can be navigated with an accompanying free guidebook; a few of the tours also offer an accompanying audio walking tour guide. As of
132:. Cultural Tourism DC and its members develop and present programs in Washington for area residents and visitors. Member organizations represent cultural and community organizations throughout Washington, DC; they include large institutions such as the 288:
to showcase their culture, art, music, dance and food. The event features street festivals, open houses, embassy events, special performances and other events, including the annual EU Open House and Around the World Embassy
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Cultural Tourism DC (CTDC) offered a range of guided and self-guided walking tours of historic neighborhoods in Washington, DC. These
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was an independent non-profit coalition of more than 230 culture, heritage, and community-based organizations in
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2018, CTDC had created Heritage Trails for 18 DC neighborhoods, the most recent of which is in
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acquired Cultural Tourism DC and CTDC wound down its operations as a standalone entity.
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Additional heritage trail markers are in other DC neighborhoods as part of the
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Other notable events organized by Cultural Tourism DC included:
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Index

Logo of Cultural Tourism DC
Events DC
Kathryn S. Smith
Washington, D.C.
United States
www.culturaltourismdc.org
Washington, DC
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
U.S. National Arboretum
Frederick Douglass House
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Events DC
Eckington
Anacostia
Adams Morgan
Barracks Row
Brightwood
Columbia Heights
Greater Deanwood
Downtown
Eckington
Federal Triangle
Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains
Greater H Street NE
LeDroit Park
Bloomingdale
Logan Circle
Mount Pleasant
Shaw
Southwest

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