CONGRESS HALL
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Congress Hall, where members of Congress once met, houses the House of Representatives and the Senate Chamber
This was where Congressmen met when Philadelphia was the capital of the country (between 1790 and 1800). Congress Hall subsequently hosted local and federal courts. On the ground floor, the House of Representatives was discovered, which could accommodate up to 106 representatives from 16 American states (the thirteen states of the Union to which Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee were added between 1791 and 1796). On the first floor is the Senate Chamber, where two paintings can be seen from Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, offered by Valéry Giscard d 'Estaing in 1976, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the United States Declaration of Independence. It was in this building that the Bill of Rights was ratified (the first 10 amendments of the Constitution) in 1791. Guided tours of about twenty minutes make it possible to learn more about this emblematic place of the birth of the United States.
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