Hartford: Mark Twain's house and American insurance

Capital of Connecticut and global capital of insurance, Hartford holds the extravagant house where Mark Twain wrote his masterpieces.

The center, once home to Mark Twain and historic insurance capital of America, is visited comfortably on foot.

The Mark Twain House, an extravagant Victorian residence where the writer lived for seventeen years, preserves the setting where 'Huckleberry Finn' and 'Tom Sawyer' were written.

Just steps away, the Connecticut State Capitol, in Victorian Gothic style with a gilded dome, remains one of America's most elaborately decorated state buildings.

Proceeding onward, you visit the Wadsworth Atheneum, America's oldest public art museum, founded in 1842 and still heavily visited today.

As evening falls, Bushnell Park, America's oldest public park designed specifically as such, enlivens evening walks among its tree-lined avenues.

Mark Twain lived in Hartford for seventeen years in a house of eccentric design that he himself proudly defined, writing here some of his most celebrated works of American literature alongside his family.

Hartford remains nicknamed the 'world capital of insurance' for the concentration of major insurance companies headquartered in the city since the nineteenth century, a sector that still employs thousands of residents.