Travel Richmond, Virginia: Interview with tourism expert

This video was taken during our fall vacation in Virginia on October 4, 2007. We decided to visit the capital of Virigina, a city with a metro area population of about 1.2 million people. Our drive from Massanutten was about 2 hours, and our first stop in the city was the Convention and Visitors Centre. We got decked out with all sorts of maps and brochures and I quickly video-interviewed one of the representatives of the tourism department to get an idea of the city.

I figured the best place to start the exploration would be right downtown near City Hall. Most of Richmond's downtown is made up of modern skyscrapers that are interspersed with a few historical buildings. The main sight in the area is of course the Capitol Building which we visited through its newly constructed underground entrance and exhibit area. I also checked out the Main Street Station, a historical railway station that has recently undergone a stunning renovation. We walked through Shockoe Slip, a neighbourhood of former tobacco warehouses from the Victorian era that have now been turned into lofts, retail stores and restaurants. We also walked down to the canal area, close to the James River, an area that has recently been undergoing a rejuvenation.

We also briefly drove across the James River to catch a great view of the downtown Richmond skyline and then headed west into a picturesque residential neighbourhood called "The Fan", so-called because the streets are laid out in a fan-shaped pattern. Our last stop was Carytown, a commercial strip in the city's west end with a variety of unique stores.

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[Truelies69]

This is the problem with Richmond...no mention of the Confederate statues on Monument Avenue, Hollywood Cemetary where Jefferson Davis, Jeb Stuart and George Pickett and thousands of other Confederates are buried, the nearby battlefields of Gaines Mill, Cold Harbor, Yellow Tavern and Petersburg, and the largest collection of Confederate flags in the world at the Museum of the Confederacy.

But, you can shop at Sak's!!!! LOL

[seraphlaim]

lol funny. most people who would be interested by that already know it. its goofy but these days just the word 'confederate' gets peolples dander up.

[monumentfloyd]

Horsepucky. Ive lived in Richmond a great deal of my life and have never have any problems with crime.

[monumentfloyd]

We like to avoid talking about it to tourists because they always tell us we're hung up on the war.

[londonsmoke]

lol a lot of history.. your country as a nation isn't old enough to have a lot of history. try coming to london. or infact anywhere in europe.. shit loads of history it's mind boggling

[RichmondBag]

Wow, another video about Richmond. The city has a lot of history and stuff.

[iwannarock999]

Then why are you flaming someone's video about it? Go away- you suck. :-)

[Truelies69]

The Museum of the Confederacy should have been one of the first museums she named. It gets many more visitors than most of the other museums she named, despite Richmond's best politically correct efforts to hide it.

[Mish00]

Richmond is ghetto! not a safe city at all!