Travel guide to Boston
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About Boston
Boston a port sited on the banks of the River Witham and Massachusetts being the capital of the city of Boston is a relatively compact city. The city of Boston boasts of the University and the colleges it houses, today the city’s every 10 Bostonian residents is a student at one of the city’s 57 University and colleges and research establishments, such prestigious institutions as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have attracted leading industries in electronics, engineering, finance and biotecnology and has given the city a strong future.
Most of the major places of interest in the city are within walking distance of each other, the city retains much of its historic beauty and is famous for the role it played in the American Revolution, the city is proud of offering something for everyone. There are so may wonderful attractions and some of these are the Boston Duck tours one of the most popular tours in and around the city showing the best of Boston with a combined land and sea tour, the New England Aquarium with over 7000 fish, aquatic mammals and also penguins and many different sea creatures including several huge turtles, barracudas, stingrays and sharks, the National Historic Park and the Public Library the first free publicly supported municipal library in America and the first public library to lend book and the first with a children’s room.
Some of the other attractions are the Franklin Park Zoo, The Symphony Hall, Ghosts and Gravestones Tour, John Hancock Tower- New England’s tallest building designed by renowned architect I. M. Pei and the Bull and Finch Pub home of cheers. The Guildhall Museum dating from 1450 containing the original cells where William Bradford, William Brewster and others, later known as the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in 1607 is one of the most famous attraction of its kind in the city and it has an interactive computer simulation to show what life was like in the 1530’s.
There is a wide selection of Boston hotels available to suit every taste and budget ranging from the most luxurious hotels and large chain of hotels to small inexpensive lodgings. The city retains an ethic of commitment to life as a whole be that sports, pastimes, work, cafes, bar and restaurants or culture.
