Perhaps no capital in the world can compete with Washington in terms of the beauty of the diplomatic headquarters accredited there. For the most part, the embassies in Washington have settled in lavish neoclassical mansions, built over a century ago around Massachusetts Avenue by wealthy and powerful American families. Others occupy striking modern headquarters, purposely built on excellently located grounds. The splendid images by Antonio Castañeda in this book lead us into the intimacy of these environments, where unique displays of the respective country’s art combine with symbols of nationality to create an atmosphere that transports the visitor to those distant or nearby ancestral lands represented there.