Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom is a neighborhood of Washington, DC The neighborhood is Foggy Bottom (about misty misty valley or lowland ) called - mainly because of the smog, caused the previously attached to factories there. Soon the name was used and understood in a figurative sense as a nickname for the State Department of the United States - because of the often inscrutable and Konspirative adjacent to the policy, which is supposedly made ​​there.

In Foggy Bottom also other important institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the George Washington University and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are located. Well known as the Watergate Hotel is.