Your Tour Is Our Pleasure!

When visiting someplace new, sometimes we don’t know what we don’t know. That’s why Federal City Private Tours has created the most extensive tour catalog in the city! Our innovative program allows you the freedom to create a blueprint for a tour as unique as you are. And with the city’s most experienced guides, This is more than just sightseeing – it’s a memory and memories are forever!

Day Tours

DC Express Tour

DC Express Tour

Short on time? Our sweeping, 2-hour driver/guided overview tour allows you to see as much as you can, in the shortest amount of time.

But don’t mistake our brevity for cutting corners. Your professional licensed guide also serves as your driver. We will pick you up at the time and location of your choosing.

Then, your comprehensive 2-hour tour includes views of all DC’s landmarks, monuments, and memorials, as well as the iconic architecture of the Three Branches of Government! If time permits, we can arrange a photo stop at one or two sites of your choosing.

Longer driver/guided tours are available.

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Discover DC Tour

Discover DC Tour

The cornerstone tour upon which all others are built! Our most popular introductory offering is this 3 or 4 hour, full-service, highlight tour that includes stops at all DC’s landmark monuments & memorials, as well as the White House, Capitol Hill and (time permitting) admission to National Archives.

Your chauffeured vehicle, along with professional guide will pick up at time and location of your choosing. Then, according to your customized itinerary, your tour ambassador will escort you through each site, offering a more in-depth and therefore, more memorable tour experience!

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Re-Discover DC Tour

Re-Discover DC Tour:

As with all our tours, this full-day (5-8-hour) full-service tour event begins at the time and location of your choosing.

Your private tour stops may include the same as above, but additional stops include some sites that may not have been here when you were in 8th grade!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial; World War II Memorial; Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial; Theodore Roosevelt Island; Lincoln Cottage; Emancipation Memorial; Woodrow Wilson Home & Museum; World War I Memorial (2021); Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial (2020).

Also, rediscover timeless classics like a walking tour of Arlington National Cemetery or a guided tour of George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

Admission included.

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DC’s Weekend Pass

DC’s Weekend Pass

Available 7 days a week! Combines two completely customized 4-hour tours on consecutive days.

The Discover DC Highlight Tour, one day and a “grab bag” the next: walking tour of Arlington Cemetery; tour the U.S. Capitol with passes to the House or Senate Galleries (when available), Library of Congress or Supreme Court.

Or tickets to Ford’s Theatre / Peterson Boarding House & the Lincoln Education Center? A guided tour of George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens?

The possibilities are endless: Frederick Douglass’ Home Cedar Hill (when available); Woodrow Wilson’s home; Lincoln’s Cottage; Clara Barton’s home.

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Night Tours

DC’s Finest Twilight Tour

DC’s Finest Twilight Tour

The majesty of one of the most beautiful cities in all the world takes on a whole new look in the captivating glow of twilight’s last gleaming! Allure and intrigue meet in this unforgettable 3-hour private guided Night Tour.

Stops may include White House; U.S. Capitol; World War II Memorial; Jefferson & Lincoln Memorials; Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial; or U.S. Marine Corps Memorial.

Drive through Georgetown, Capitol Hill or past Watergate – wherever your imagination wants to take you!

Start times vary, seasonally. Vehicles include stretch limousine, luxury SUV, Mercedes Sprinter, mini-bus, or full-size coach.

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DC Luxe

DC Luxe

Experience true luxury. The only thing better than Washington, DC at twilight is seeing it from your own personal, chauffeured-driven stretch limousine, after dining at one of DC’s “Top Chef” eateries!

This exclusive, Red Carpet Night Tour offers guests dinner at the restaurants of Bobby Flay, Spike Mendelsohn, David Burke, Wolfgang Puck, Jose Andres, or Johnny Moni, then a breathtaking private Night Tour of Washington!

For a casual night out, choose from Bobby’s Burger Palace; We, The Pizza; Good Stuff Eatery.

Or for a more upscale dining experience: BLT Prime, The Source, Jaleo, Zaytinya, or Komi . . .

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DC Progressive Dinner

DC Progressive Dinner

Cocktails – Appetizers – Dinner – Dessert – After Dinner Drinks.

We make all the plans – you have all the fun with this exceptional and luxurious night out on the town! Ideal for bachelorette parties, reunions, after work / conference “diversion” or simply rewarding yourselves with a well-deserved Ladies’ Night Out.

Might we further suggest a visit to the MGM Grand Casino at renowned National Harbor?

This extraordinary, one-of-a-kind offering will make you an absolute legend with your friends or co-workers! Certain venues may require advanced reservations, minimum purchase and included gratuities.

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Specialty Tours

Freedom Tour

Freedom Tour

Your 6-hour private African-American Heritage tour stops may include:

White House; U.S. Capitol; U.S. Supreme Court; Emancipation Memorial; Frederick Douglass Home (when available); Mary McLeod Bethune House; Underground Railroad sites; Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial; Lincoln Memorial; African-American Civil War Veteran’s Memorial; Malcolm X Park; U Street Corridor (Black Broadway);

Lunch at world-famous Ben’s Chili Bowl.

Tickets for admission to Smithsonian African-American History & Culture Museum (when available).

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Gettysburg

Gettysburg (1.75 hours away)

Even the most casual student of history knows about the most horrific battle on American soil: Gettysburg.

Your tour begins at the Gettysburg Museum & Visitor Center with the introductory film, A New Birth of Freedom, produced by The History Channel. This film sets the table for the rest of your day.

You’ll also experience the historic Cyclorama: the enormous cylindrical painting that vividly depicts the fire & fury of the infamous battle’s third day.

Then, after lunch, you’ll retrace these hallowed grounds with preeminent battlefield guide, Gar Phillips. Battlefield tours are generally, 2 or 3 hours. Longer tours are available.

Also, in Gettysburg is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Farm, the only home Ike and Mamie ever owned – now a National Historic Landmark.

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Dark Tourism

Dark Tourism

Or The Tragical History Tour: Dark Tourism is defined as the visiting of places historically associated with death or tragedy. Washington, DC has certainly had its share of both!

Our tour includes the infamy of Ford’s Theatre; the site of James Garfield’s assassination; the site of assassination attempts on Presidents Jackson & Reagan; sites associated with the Knickerbocker Theater disaster; 1864 DC Arsenal Explosion; Chandra Levy; William Seward; Philip Barton Key; Leslie Coffelt; Orlando Letelier; Pentagon 9/11 Memorial; U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Research 101

Research 101

As a starting point of research for their books, many authors have told us our guided walking tours of Washington have been helpful in capturing the flavor of the city’s many unique neighborhoods.

Whether research-related or a school group looking for something different, our Research 101 tour offers a knowledgeable, licensed tour professional/amateur historian safely escorting you through DC’s neighborhoods on foot or Metroing from place to place.

See the National Mall; Georgetown; Capitol Hill; Shaw / U Street; Dupont Circle; Adams-Morgan; Old Town Alexandria.

For your convenience, we will also provide the Metro cards at a substantially discounted rate. Call or email for a consultation!

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DC’s Best Addresses Tour

DC’s Best Addresses Tour

A 6-hour private excursion of the historic homes DC is known for.

Choose to stop at Woodrow Wilson’s House & Museum; Marjorie Meriwether Post’s Hillwood Estate & Gardens; Stephan Decatur’s House & Museum; Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage; Frederick Douglass’ Cedar Hill; Clara Barton National Historic site.

See the homes of Barrack Obama & John F. Kennedy (before they were president!), Bill & Hillary Clinton, James Madison, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Edwards, Gary Hart, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Woodward, Charles Lindbergh & Tim Russert, among others!

We are also proud to offer

  • The Freedom of Religion Tour
  • Military Appreciation Tour
  • Gettysburg & other Civil War sites
  • A Taste of History Tour
  • Luray Caverns
  • Day Tripper Tours to Annapolis, Baltimore, Richmond, Williamsburg & Jamestown Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Hershey, PA, Atlantic Beaches – Call or email for more information!
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Civil War Tours

Civil War Tours

We are also proud to offer a Civil War buff’s dream: a customized, private tour of any battlefield, from Gettysburg to Vicksburg! Here are a few of the more popular destinations and the approximate travel times from DC:

  • Manassas – 45 minutes
  • Monocacy – 1 hour
  • Antietam – 1.5 hours
  • Chancellorsville – 1 hour, 15 minutes
  • Harpers Ferry – 1.5 hours
  • Richmond – 2 hours
  • Petersburg – 2.5 hours
  • National Civil War Museum – Harrisburg, PA, 2.5 hours
  • Appomattox Courthouse – 3.5 hours

For these highly specialized tours, we strongly suggest booking three months or more, in advance.

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Corporate Tours

End a day of team-building by rewarding your office with the Ultimate DC Night Tour!

After dinner at a restaurant of your choosing (obviously, we have plenty of recommendations!), we cap the night off with a private tour of the breathtaking monuments at twilight!

School Tours

Full Service

Full Service

"It's better to see something once than hear about it 1000 times!"  - Asian Proverb

Our mission is to support parents and educators from public, private, charter and home schools that believe Civics and US History should be a priority. Because we specialize in smaller school groups (under 30), we offer more personalized attention at a much lower cost. If you believe students should know:

  • The principles on which the nation was founded;
  • How their government works;
  • That good history need not be glossed over or sugar-coated to be taught properly
  • Who we are, as a nation and, most importantly, how we got to this point in history – we can help!

We can also arrange Science-based tours of:

  • NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center – Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary science and engineering.
  • Luray Caverns – Geology
  • US Naval Observatory (Tours are temporarily suspended)
  • Rock Creek Nature Center & Planetarium – Earth sciences & astronomy
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Federal City

Federal City's Grand School Tour

"Knowledge which is acquired through compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore, do not use compulsion, but let education be sort of an amusement, thus you will better to be able to discover the child's natural bent."     -  Plato

Federal City pursues the good, the true & the beautiful while making all the arrangements for your academic and cultural visit to Our Nation’s Capital. Hotel; food; tours; customized itinerary; admission fees, professional and entertaining guides; local transportation; night-time hall security & access to doctors, on-call, 24-7. Peace of mind for you and your parents!

Day One: Historic Overview of DC - including Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Vietnam & Korean War Memorials, FDR Memorial, WWI & WWII Memorial, MLK Memorial, Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, US Capitol, US Supreme Court, Library of Congress, National Archives, White House, Ford's Theatre, Arlington National Cemetery.

Day Two: Art - Guided tours of the National Galleries of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Hirschorn & Renwick Galleries.

Day Three: Science - Guided tours of Smithsonian Museums of Natural History, Air & Space, National Inventor's Hall of Fame, Rock Creek Planetarium, Luray Caverns, Baltimore Aquarium or the Annapolis Maritime Museum.

Day Four: African-American Cultural Heritage - Explore the significance of Black History with a guided tour of Smithsonian's African-American History & Culture Museum, African-American Civil War Memorial, Black Broadway, U Street, The Striver's Section, Ben's Chili Bowl, Howard Theater, the controversial Emancipation Memorial, Mary MacLoud Bethune Memorial & House, Cedar Hill (Frederick Douglass' Home). 

We also offer a bare-bones, fully guided walking tour of DC, whereby our guide will lead you & your students through DC on Metro or walking from site to site. We will also provide the Metro cards, for your convenience. Call or eMail for a consultation!

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