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Boston in Massachusetts 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   -     
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Hotels in Boston

  Booking   -   Hotel Guide Boston

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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

  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   -   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

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  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

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Boston
Patricia Harris (Author), David Lyon (Author), Jonathan Schultz (Author)
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Boston travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions of Boston. Whether you're looking for the liveliest nightlife in Boston, wish to take one of Boston's many historical walks, visit Boston University or watch the Boston Red Sox play; this pocket-size travel guide is packed with essential information for every corner of the city, whatever your budget. There are dozens of Top 10 lists including Boston's Top 10 unmissable museums, Boston's Top 10 liveliest bars and clubs, Boston's best seafood restaurants, seaside trips from Boston, and the Top 10 most fun places for children! The Top 10 Boston travel guide is packed with beautiful illustrations and detailed cutaways of the greatest Boston attractions with reviews and recommendations of Boston's best hotels, markets, theatre, festivals, shopping and day trips. Included with the Top 10 Boston travel guide is a FREE pull-out map which will ensure you don't miss a thing! Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Boston
Paperback: 160 pages; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1 April 2009); ISBN-10: 1405338814; ISBN-13: 978-1405338813.

Transport / How to travel to Boston

  Boston Airport   -   Logan Airport

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  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   -    
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Virgin Atlantic   -   flights from London to Boston

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Links 

  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

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.

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 

Music, Art & Culture, Events

  Bostonmusic.com
New England Bands, Musicians, Venues, Classifieds, Teachers, and Stores
  Early Music Boston
  Handel and Haydn Society
Founded in Boston in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States. The Society is a renowned period orchestra and professional chorus, performing music of the baroque and classical periods on the instruments and with the techniques of the time in which it was composed.
  King's Chapel
The musical tradition of King's Chapel dates back to 1713 when the church became the first in New England to acquire an organ.

  The Symphony Hall [ theatre ]

  Boston Early Music Festival
North America's premier presenting organization for conservators and performers of music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods and has secured Boston's reputation as "America's early music capital" (The Boston Globe).


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