The colonial jewel of Virginia in the US is the largest living museum in the world

The city of Colonial Williamsburg, in Virginia, United States, is the largest living museum in the world with some 120 hectares of buildings that house emblematic sites of the British colonial period in America.

The visitor can live a unique experience of walking through streets with restored houses decorated with characters from the glory days of the city that from 1699 to 1780 was the capital of Virginia, one of the most influential colonies in the New World, and where The first revolutionary ideas were born that would lead to the independence of the United States.

It also boasts the first law school in the United States, the University of William & Mary, an academic training center for the nation’s lawyers since 1693, when King William and Queen Mary of England signed the letter to create the college. .

In 1779, it became the first Law School in the United States, with a reorganization promoted by Thomas Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia and would later be the third president of the country, who studied law at that study center.

“Williamsburg is considered to be the political, cultural and educational center of what was then the largest, most populous and most influential American colony,” according to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which has managed this historic museum complex since its restoration in 1926. about 146 years after the capital of Virginia was moved to the city of Richmond.

The project was carried out by the Reverend WAR Goodwin, rector of the parish church who, with the support of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., promoted the project of restoring the city to its 18th century appearance.

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