托马斯杰佛罗的蒙提萨罗

蒙蒂塞洛这栋建筑看上去很熟悉,但里面会令你大吃一惊。游客先是到游客中心付钱买门票,得知具体的参观时间。班车会把你带上山。如果在参观之前你还有时间的话,这栋建筑外部还有很多部分,你可以自己去参观。每个区域都做了标记,卡片上提供了很多信息,描述了每块区域的情况以及是怎么利用这些区域的。导游带游客穿过大楼,他会清楚的告诉你这栋大楼的历史、托马斯杰斐逊和那时的社会背景情况。你还可以去种植园和花园参观,这些都是包括在门票里的。我们参观了花园,讲解员和导游一样,他们懂的东西都很多,而且很乐于帮助。小孩子可能会觉得这很无聊。

真棒!蒙蒂塞洛真棒,真的就如托马斯杰斐逊说的那样不可思议。

上个周末我们在蒙蒂塞洛渡过了一次很愉快的旅行。旅游团的费用是每个人20美元(140元)(提示,如果你是去拜访住在当地的人,那这笔钱就可以省了),包括古宅之旅、广场之旅和"奴隶历史之旅"。由于下雨,天空阴沉沉的,我们首先进行的是古宅之旅,但在等待的时候也去菜园逛了一下。里里外外都很漂亮(提示:古宅里面不准拍照),而且有很多资料。我老公是个历史迷,他很喜欢那里,而我也乐意去看那些旧家具、器皿等。他们还有一间博物馆,里面有一些古器物,杰弗逊的坟地,还有个"传承"区域供孩子们做试验。每次我去梵蒂冈都会在这里逗留一下(一座历史建筑怎么会改变呢?),但它曾经是个很值得参观的地方。

这是一个伟大的历史景点,如果你计划去弗吉尼亚州的话这是个不错的选择。临近蓝岭山脉,蒙蒂塞洛充满魅力并包含了历史信息。现在这里修建了一个新的游客中心,里面有很不错的礼品商店。花些时间去托马斯杰弗逊的家,而且还可以从那个有意思的导游那里了解到很多他生平的发明。如果你是从夏洛茨维尔地区来蒙蒂塞洛莱这里的,住宿的票都是免费的。秋天是一个非常不错的季节,那时候去拜访卡特山并挑选一些苹果。

我们在2009年劳动节的时候参观了蒙蒂塞洛。我们是全家一起去那的,我和丈夫,还有两个女儿,她们年纪都还很小,一个四岁半,另一个才两个月。虽然去之前我们认为托马斯杰斐逊种植园花一点点时间就够了,但实际上参观那些房子,花园,还有花在游客中心的时间占到我们整个行程的一大部分。我们对托马斯杰斐逊的博学多才感到惊叹,同时也从中学到很多东西。我们四岁半的女儿很喜欢在狮鹫发现室里的花园玩,那是游客中心专门为孩子们准备的。他们在这里能对托马斯杰斐逊这个人有更多的了解,以及临其境的感受到在蒙蒂塞洛的生活。我们最后在剧场看了一部叫"托马斯杰斐逊的世界"的小电影来作为整个行程的结束。

What a great tour! Learned so much about Thomas Jefferson and had a wonderful tour guide. I did the $25 standard tour which took about 45 minutes and then afterwards roamed the grounds a bit before seeing Jefferson's burial site. A great morning!

Beautiful views and grounds. The home was lovely and well thought out. Would love to come back when the gardens are in bloom and can walk around more.

We went for Scout Day at Monticello. They had lots of interesting activities for the scouts and we enjoyed the tour of the house. Our tour guide, Marianne, was great and engaging with the kids.

This was my third visit to Monticello. Today was Scout Day and girl/boy scouts were given a discount, so we took our daughters, both Girl Scouts.The tours run every five minutes and the regular tour is first floor and part of the terrace. Very interesting tour, informative guide, and this particular tour was geared towards children. Our girls loved it.You could easily spend an entire day on grounds. Mulberry Row, the working home underneath Monticello, the vineyard, family cemetery, museum, café, gift shop. It is a great experience. A good time for the whole family!

Learned lots about Jefferson and history on this visit. The house sits on a mountain and the views are magnificent! The house tour is a don't miss. Jefferson was an interesting man. The slavery tour is not a tour. It is a lecture about the slavery on the property. The gentleman who spoke was interesting but he said the same information could be found on the website. So if your time is short you can skip this. The museum is very informative and you can even have a beer than is claimed to be 'close' to Jefferson's own recipe.

We were on a tour where two small children were with their parents. The children (through no fault of their own) were very restless, crying and just distracting to other people and even the tour guide offered them the option of taking another tour, which one parent declined. I actually was ready for the tour to end, so I could go on my own. So, if I had it to do over, I would try not take a tour with people who have small children.

Jefferson's house and gardens. You see how the great man lived amongst his possessions and inventions, like the dumb waiters built in the dining room so that the food served at his table was always hot, his extensive wine cellars and the slave quarters built out by the gardens.

We went along on the encouragement of some locals and were a bit nervous as we do not know much about Jefferson or US history in general, and we aren't particularly interested in history. We very much enjoyed our visit though with the tour guide being exceptional. The house, and the man behind it, are so interesting that you can't but become engaged in the history.

We were pleasantly surprised how enjoyable this visit was. We wanted to go on the full tour but they did not have tickets available for us when we arrived so I would highly suggest you reserve your tickets on line. So we did the basic tour which didn't include the top floor and dome. Our tour guide was Mary B. and she was terrific. Mary was very professional, funny and welcomed everyone's questions both during and after the tour. We also toured the outside grounds and found it all interesting. We spent about 4 1/2 hours there and enjoyed every minute of it. We learned so much.

I have always enjoyed going to Monticello. I have been many times and will continue to return many more. This is a great educational experience and no two tours are ever the same. Spring and Fall are my favorite times to go.