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Enjoy the grandeur and the beauty of three of Virginia's most breathtaking plantations. Learn the role each played in the shaping of America's history and in a number of historical Hollywood films on the location at each of the plantations. This extraordinary Virginia Film Tour Program offers you an opportunity to experience the imaginative and valuable use of how intertwining movies with Virginia's fertile history reflects how art imitates life to show us ourselves in the historical past and in the present.

     
        "I ache for a love that burns like fire...and moonlight.
         I speak with you in my mind and heart. If only you
         existed outside of them. Goodnight sweetheart.
         Dream of me."       
                                         Jennifer Jason Leigh
                                        The Love Letter

• Discover one of television's most beautiful and romantic films ever made, Hallmark Hall of Fame's classic film, The Love Letter. This love story that touches two lives. . . a century apart was filmed at one of Virginia's most beautiful and romantic plantations
  
• Learn how filmmakers recreated Thomas Jefferson's beloved Monticello for the historical TV mini-series, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal at the plantation where Thomas Jefferson actually lived as a child.
  
• Visit one of the country's most historical plantations where early settlers observed the first official Thanksgiving in America on December 4, 1619
  
• Learn about the TV series filmed on the plantations
  
• Enjoy a delicious lunch at the historic tavern nationally acclaimed by Gourmet and Bon Appetite Magazine for the quality of their regional dining experience
  
• Visit the National Historic Landmark plantation, considered America's premier example of colonial Georgian architecture
  
• Take a leisurely stroll through three of the most beautiful plantations gardens and grounds found in Virginia
  
• Find out how the White House was created for HBO's Iron-Jawed Angels, starring Hilary Swank 
  

This tour is only available as a one day group tour and is also a part of the Richmond Ultimate Film Lovers Weekend Group Tour,