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Boston, Massachusetts MUST DO's Author: Barbara Hayo www.TrustedTours.com |
Boston is a historic touchstone, a cultural mecca, a culinary delight. It pleases the intellectual, the sports fan, the history buff and the shopping maven - all within a compact space. There are treasures and finds in all neighborhoods. To experience as much of Boston as possible, approach it strat
egically.
Start with a tour aboard the Old Town Trolley Tours ® of Boston. It’s the best first thing you can do. The 1 hour and 40 minute fully narrated tour is fun, informative, and you will see Boston’s vast collection of historic architectural treasures, parks and distinct neighborhoods from the vantage point of the trolley. You can take the once around loop tour, jotting down places of interest you would like to return to at your leisure or, you can get off at any of the 17 strategic stops throughout the city to explore on your own. When you have seen all you want to see around a stop, hop on the next available trolley and resume your tour. With your ticket purchase you’ll receive Old Town Trolley’s helpful Day Planner, highlighting the important sites around each stop.
See all the 16 historic sites along the Freedom Trail.
Many who visit Boston for the first time are eager to see the important colonial landmarks, all of which can be seen along the Freedom Trail, a red line on the sidewalk connecting the 16 historic sites of colonial Boston. You can walk the 3-mile trail or you can get to each site aboard the Old Town Trolley as each site is but a short walk from 8 of the stops along the tour.
Get a bird’s eye view of Boston. On a clear day you can see forever from the 50 th floor Prudential Center Skywalk Observatory.
Tour a museum. Interact in the Children’s Museum; watch science at work in the Museum of Science; step inside the giant stained glass globe in the Mapparium; see New England’s rich sports heritage displayed in the Sports Museum. Be amazed at technology at the MIT Museum; appreciate the life and times of our 35th president at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum. Marvel at the art: famous American paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, art spanning centuries at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, contemporary works at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the outstanding exhibits at the three Harvard Art Museums.
Attend the theatre. Find out what’s playing and attend a performance at one of Boston’s many fine restored theaters.
Experience the New England Aquarium. The giant Ocean Tank, penguin and sealion exhibits, incredible nature films at the IMAX theater and more provide a day of family entertainment.
See Boston by sea aboard a
Harbor Cruise. Go whale watching.
Walk through Harvard Square. Join the activity of students going to class, connecting in coffeehouses, browsing bookstores and enjoying impromptu street performers. The intellectual, bohemian Cambridge feels distinctly international as sounds of foreign languages and wonderful ethnic restaurants are everywhere.
Shop the many shops and carts in busy Faneuil Hall Marketplace or in the elegantboutiques and galleries on Newbury Street.
Climb aboard “Old Ironsides", the USS Constitution, in proud service in 1797.
Pick a different restaurant for every meal. Stop for a drink at Cheers of TV fame and voted the “Best Neighborhood Bar.” Take a pedal-powered Swan Boat ride, in the summer months only, in Boston Public Garden.
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