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Guided Visit to Monticello

Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site designated historic home of Founding Father and former US president, Thomas Jefferson. 

One of the most influential figures in early US politics and a polymath, Thomas Jefferson designed and built his exquisite mountaintop home, Monticello across a 40 year period, turning it into an astounding piece of architecture overlooking the Virginia Piedmont that is internationally renowned to this day.  

For this visit, you’ll arrive at Monticello and take a guided tour of the house and historic grounds. Your guide will take you through first-floor rooms, the West Lawn and the South Wing, while discussing Jefferson’s architectural vision and the complex history of the surrounding plantation.  

Beyond the house, you can explore the mountaintop at a relaxed pace, taking time to see the restored gardens and take in the sweeping vies across the Piedmont. You’ll also get to walk along Mulberry Row which was the centre of work and domestic life for dozens of free and enslaved people on Jefferson’s 5,000-acre plantation. The site’s interpretation is designed to give greater context to life at that time. Monticello is now a non-profit organisation that has dedicated itself to early US history and the lives and labour that shaped the property. 

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Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home, Monticello, in Charlottesville Virginia
Vegetable garden at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, in Charlottesville Virginia

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