Django is a free and open-source Python web framework used to ease the process of developing web applications. It emphasizes reusability and pluggability of components for rapid development. Django projects include applications that satisfy the project's intentions. The framework uses the MVC architecture where models represent the data, views display the user interface, and controllers link models and views together. This document explained how to install Django, create a project and application, and tested the development server to display "It worked!"