A fiefdom in the history of the United States, Alexandria, located in the southern suburbs of Washington DC, has often been a meeting place for the country’s founding fathers to discuss their favourite subjects: freedom and revolution. Alexandria is also the only symbol of its kind, representing the very particular links that exist between the Old Continent and Modern America. You will enjoy strolling through its streets with their European feel, scattered with little restaurants, antiques shops and other charming boutiques. It will only take you about 20 minutes by train to get back to the heart of Washington, thereby taking the initiatory path of the first president of the United States of America, George Washington.