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City of Boston in the State of Massachusetts, United States.

Boston is the epitome of what American history is all about, an American city that proudly trades in on its colonial past, having served a crucial role in the nation's development from a few wayward pilgrims right through the Revolutionary War. There are plenty of skyscrapers, thriving business concerns and cultural outposts that are part-and-parcel of modern urban America, not to mention excellent mergers of past and present, such as the redeveloped - and bustling - Quincy Market, a paradigm for successful urban renewal. 

Neighbourhoods Boston : Allston, Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Charlestown, Chinatown, Dorchester, East Boston, Fenway Kenmore, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Mid Dorchester, Mission Hill, North End, Roslindale, Roxbury, South Boston, South End, West End, West Roxbury.


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Car Rental Boston

 Holiday Autos  -    
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

 Sixt  -   

Hotels in Boston

 Booking  -  Hotel Guide Boston

 [ Hotels.com ]

 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

  -  Motel 6 and Red Roof

 

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

Travelsphere 
Travelsphere is the UK's No. 1 operator of escorted holidays.

 British Airways  -  Holidays in Bostont 
Start your Boston holiday in trendy Beacon Hill's boutiques and al fresco cafes, or the galleries of cosmopolitan Back Bay. Learn about African American history walking the Black Heritage Trail, or visit Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in the Fenway neighbourhood. If you like baseball, then head to the famous Fenway Park stadium to watch a game while you're holidaying in Boston.

  Kuoni Travel   -  City trip Boston
Massachusetts capital has a rich history which you can learn by following Boston's Freedom Trail. This relaxed friendly city is easily covered on foot. Cross the Charles River to Cambridge and you can walk through the hallowed courtyards of Harvard.
Once you have seen the historic sites, you can discover the modern Boston. Visit the colourful harbourfront area, wander through Quincy market or take a whale watching cruise.
Boston is also a convenient gateway to the beautiful New England countryside, so you can either enjoy a city break or combine a few days in Boston with an independent fly drive holiday touring New England or head for the superb beaches of Cape Cod.

Thomas Cook  -  City Trips Boston

  -  Create your perfect trip to Boston
Flight, Hotel and Car.

 American Dream Weekends  -  short breaks - regional UK departures available
 United Vacations  -  tailor made holidays in America



 Boston Duck Tours 
Fun begins as soon as you board your "DUCK", an authentic, renovated World War II amphibious landing vehicle. First, you'll be greeted by one of our legendary tour ConDUCKtors, who'll be narrating your tour. Then you're off on a journey like you've never had before. You'll cruise by all the places that make Boston the birthplace of freedom and a city of firsts, from the golden-domed State House to Bunker Hill and the Fleet Center, Boston Common and Copley Square to the Big Dig, Government Center to fashionable Newbury Street, Quincy Market to the Prudential Tower, and more
 Harvard University Tour
The guides can be annoyingly cheerful, but it's worth taking a tour of this impressive if over-hyped bastion of Ivy-League education - if just for the oft-told tale about how the iconic John Harvard statue isn't really a likeness of John Harvard at all.

Travel Guides Boston / Related Books

Travel Guides Boston [ amazon.co.uk ]

Boston  -  Anthony Grant, David Fagundes
The Rough Guide gets under the skin of this historic city, with lively accounts of every attraction from the smart streets of Beacon Hill to the Revolution-era sights around Boston Common. Throughout there are critical listings to suit all tastes and budgets. The authors' selection of 'things not to miss' range from bustling Harvard square to shopping on Newbury Street which houses hip cafes and colourful boutiques. It also covers neighbouring Cambridge, Plymouth, Salem, and Cape Cod's Provincetown. The contexts section provides insightful background on the city's history, architecture, people and literature.
Paperback 288 pages (July 28, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 1843534436
Boston (USA PopOut Maps S.) 
Boston PopOut has maps for Greater and Downtown Boston, Harvard Square, Beacon Hill and the 'T'subway. Incredibly detailed maps show museums, places of interest, historic sites, hotels, shopping, markets, bookshops, parks, theatres and more.
Features include: nearly 70 places of interest from food lovers' Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum; detailed walking tours of the Freedom and Black Heritage trails; 30 beaches and harbours, 24 parks and lakes, plus the biggest entertainment venues; 14 universities and colleges in the Boston area; a quick reference Boston 'T' subway map on the back cover; and a regional locator map with clear transport links, routes and major attractions to compliment the detail of the Downtown map of Boston's neighbourhoods and districts.
Map; May 28, 1999; Publisher: Compass Maps; Language: English; ISBN: 1841390097

Transport / How to travel to Boston

 Logan Airport

 British Airways  -  Flight tickets to Boston 
British Airways flights to Boston land at Boston Logan Airport, eight miles north-east of central Boston. After your Boston flight, take the bus over the Charles River and you'll be drinking a local beer in a waterfront cafe in no time. Then it's time to explore the famous sights of Boston's historic city centre or to treat yourself to some post-flight Italian home cooking in an authentic North End trattoria.

 Ebookers  -   
Book cheap flights to Boston at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

Virgin Atlantic  -  flights from London to Boston

 Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights

 MBTA - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

  New England Regional Map  
Map (April 2003); Publisher: Rand McNally; Language: English; ISBN: 0528998374
 Mapblast! Driving Directions - streetmaps etc.
Provides interactive maps and driving directions, as well as extensive information on services and products near a user's address or travel route.
 Mc Nally - Route Planner USA
 Multimap.com


Links  

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Boston USA  -  Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau

 Boston  -  Greater Boston Tourism Council

 Back Bay  -  Boston neighbourhood
 Cambridge
 Lexington and Concord
 Waterfront

 Black Heritage Trail
Massachusetts was the first state to declare slavery illegal, in 1783 - partly as a result of black participation in the Revolutionary War - and a large community of free blacks and escaped slaves swiftly grew in the North End and on Beacon Hill. Ironically, very few blacks now live on Beacon Hill, but the Black Heritage Trail through the area celebrates important sites in local black history (the various visitor centers provide maps). See The National Park Service.
 Boston Marathon
 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
In the heart of downtown Boston, Faneuil Hall Marketplace is adjacent to historic Faneuil Hall and is bordered by the financial district, the waterfront, the North End, Government Center and Haymarket. It is a well-traveled part of Boston's "Freedom Trail." The Marketplace is a five-minute walk to the New England Aquarium, The Children's Museum, The Old State House, and Paul Revere's House. Other attractions that are between 7-15 minutes away include The New State House, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Garden, Old North Church, The USS Constitution, and Fenway Park
 Fenway Park
Watch a game in Fenway Park, the nation's most storied and quirkiest baseball stadium and home to the legendary Green Monster, Fenway's towering, 37-foot left-field wall.  See Boston Red Sox. See also Save Fenway Parks
 Freedom Trail
Probably the best way to orient yourself in downtown Boston - and to appreciate the city's role in American history - is to walk some or all of the Freedom Trail. You can pick up or leave this easy self-guided route anywhere - a line of red bricks marking the trail is embedded in the pavement - but technically it begins on Boston Common at the Visitor Information Center.
 JFK Library & Museum 
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world.
 Harvard Square
Harvard Square gets particularly lively on weekend nights, as a sometimes volatile mix of teen punks, religious zealots, musicians and students converge on the university's social center.
 Old North Church
It's disputed whether church sexton Robert Newman hung lanterns in Old North Church's steeple, warning Minutemen of British movements in the Revolutionary War, but the church is still worth a look for its eight old bells (the first cast in the New World) and ancient clock.
 Press - MetroWest Daily News
 Press Boston - The Boston Globe - daily paper
 Quincy Market
Grab some take-out scrod and hang with tourists and townies in Quincy Market, a bustling complex of oddball stores, fast-food restaurants and bars.
 Radio  -  Radio Locator Massachusetts
 Science Museum
 TV Boston - The Boston Channel
 University - Harvard University
 University - University of Massachusetts - Boston

Districts : Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Charlestown, Financial District, Theatre District
Attraction : Boston Duck Tours, The USS Constitution, Franklin Park Zoo 
Convention Centres : Prudential Center Boston, BCEC
Landmarks : John Hancock Tower, New State House, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill Monument
Museums : Boston Museum of Fine Arts, JFK Presidential Library & Museum, Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum , New England Aquarium, Museum of Science, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Children's Museum, MIT Museum, Gibson House Museum. 
Popular area : Bull & Finch Pub - Home of Cheers 
Shopping Areas : Faneuil Hall, North End, Quincy Market
Stadium / Arena : Fenway Park, TD Banknorth Garden
Theatre : The Symphony Hall

Cuisine

 Durgin Park
Durgin Park has been serving traditional Yankee fare such as pot roast and roast beef since 1827, and despite the grumpy waiters, locals still have rowdy fun at the restaurant's long, communal tables.

 Foodies
On the curriculum vitae of a foodie, "eating" is listed as a hobby. The foodie lives to eat, and to eat to live is definitive boredom. A true foodie clings to all things culinary. From soup to nuts, a foodie seeks out the fun stuff about fine fare, along with the arcane, the academic, the in-depth, and the latest. To find the perfect cheese or the best macaroon recipe is life's work.
 Historic American Recipes 
Apple-Fritters | Dough-Nuts | Cocoa-nut Drops | Molasses Gingerbread | Common Gingerbread | Election Cake | Indian Meal Pudding | Fried Sweet Potatoes | Sweet Potato Pie | Beef-Stake | German Chicken Stew | Jack Rabbit Stew | To Roast a Pig | Broiled Scrod | To boil a Cod's Head.

History of Boston

 Boston Public Library 
For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend a book, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children's room. Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website and an online store featuring reproductions of the BPL's priceless photographs and artwork.
 Museum of Afro American History 

 Massachusetts Historical Society
For more than two centuries the MHS has been collecting and preserving materials relating to the history of our commonwealth and our nation. The holdings of the MHS encompass millions of rare and unique documents and artifacts vital to the study of American history.

 National Park Service - Links to the past
Explore America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.

Music & Culture

 American Family Traditions 
 Honky Tonks  -  Hymns & the Blues American Music From Back Roads To Big City
Honky tonks sprang up around east Texas oil fields in the 1930s as places for hard-drinking, tough-talking men to get loose after a long day's work. Hank Williams' country hit "Honky Tonkin" could have been their theme song. But, in 1952 country singer Kitty Wells looked like somebody's aunt when she debuted, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels". Wearing a lady-like gingham dress, but daring to sing about adultery and divorce from a woman's point of view, she captured the nation's attention and started a revolution in country music.
 Native Ground Music  -  Historic American Music & Folklore
Old time,historic American, bluegrass music and American folklore
 Popular songs in American history  -  Lesley Nelson's Website.
American Folk and Traditional Music with Lyrics, Midi Files, Tune Information and History behind the folksongs and ballads. With folksongs arranged by time period.

Web Portal / Search Engine / Directory

 Search Boston  -  Boston MA City Guide and Business Directory
 Boston.com  -  Boston Globe

 Cityquest


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