COLORADO STATE CAPITOL

The Capitole is the legislative building of Colorado, located exactly one mile (1.6 km) above sea level. It houses the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Governor's Office, the Lieutenant Governor's Office and the Treasury Department. That is where the laws are created and voted on. The building, conceived in the late nineteenth century by Elijah E. Myers in a neoclassical style, has, like the capitol of Washington, D.C., a Greek cross-shaped base.

A free visit to the building will allow you to admire its architecture, whose raw materials are emblematic of the state's riches. The exterior walls are made of granite extracted in the Gunnison region (Colorado), the pink stone found repeatedly in the building comes from Beulah (Colorado), it is a coloring of unique onyx in the world. Floors are built in marble marble (Colorado). Finally, the dome gold comes from a gift of almost 5 kilos made by miners in Colorado. Rising to more than 80 meters high and glittering gold, the dome is a great tribute to the state's mining history.

Free visits from the Capitole take place every day from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. without reservation requirements for groups below 12 people. The Chamber of Representatives and Senate rooms are open to the public from mid-January to mid-May, Monday through Friday. Gallery guides are also available.