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    Insight Guides Explore Boston (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Explore Boston (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Explore: pocket-sized books to inspire your on-foot exploration of top international destinations.



    Experience the best of Boston with this indispensably practical Insight Guides Explore book. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Museum of Fine Arts, to discovering hidden gems, including Newbury Street in Back Bay, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will help you plan your trip, save you time, and enhance your exploration of this fascinating city.



    -Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this will make the ideal on-the-move companion to your trip to Boston

    -Enjoy over 16 irresistible Best Routes to walk, from Boston's Downtown to Plymouth

    -Features concise insider information about landscape, history, food and drink, and entertainment options

    -Invaluable maps: each Best Route is accompanied by a detailed full-colour map, while the large pull-out map provides an essential overview of the area

    -Discover your destination's must-see sights and hand-picked hidden gems

    -Directory section provides invaluable insight into top accommodation, restaurant and night life options by area, along with an overview of language, books and films



    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789192759
    Insight Guides Explore Boston (Travel Guide eBook)
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      I bought this, not knowing when I’d be going to Tokyo, but found out I would be going there sooner than I thought. Less that a year after buying this book I found myself in Tokyo for a 4 hour layover. I hadn’t bookmarked anything in this book, and had barely read it, but I had broughtit along with me so when I landed in Japan, I’d know what to do. Thanks to this book I was able to go through the very difficult task of taking all the trains into the city from Narita Airport and rushing to Shibuya, Harajuku and Shinjuku. It was stressful and confusing, but I managed it, and am so happy I did. It totally worth the effort (not to mention money). If this book can guide me in a rush through Japan, then I’m sure it can do its job wonderfully if you actually read the whole book! And the maps Insight Guide includes with numbers, matching with sites being described is so helpful. It also includes a small fold out map (not entirely helpful) with a bunch of restaurants pinpointed on it. Defiantly a necessity for all planning on going to Tokyo.

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    How To Use This E-Book

    This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

    Best Routes

    The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights, and there are also ex­cursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

    We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

    Introduction

    The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus background information on food and drink, shopping and more, while a succinct history timeline highlights the key events over the centuries.

    Directory

    Also supporting the routes is a Directory chapter, with a clearly organised A–Z of practical information, our pick of where to stay while you are there and select restaurant listings; these eateries complement the more low-key cafés and restaurants that feature within the routes and are intended to offer a wider choice for evening dining. Also included here are some nightlife listings, and our recommendations for books and films about the destination.

    Getting around the e-book

    In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

    Maps

    All key attractions and sights mentioned in the text are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

    Images

    You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of the destination. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

    © 2018 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

    Table of Contents

    Recommended Routes For...

    Architecture

    Art enthusiasts

    Children

    Food and wine

    Parks and gardens

    Revolutionary Boston

    Science and technology

    Waterside views

    Explore Boston

    Harbor city

    Split personality

    Two cities in one

    Seat of learning

    Ethnic diversity

    Boston Brahmins

    Boston lingo

    Architectural development

    The colonial era

    The 18th and 19th centuries

    The 20th century

    The 21st century

    Food and Drink

    Local specialties

    Humble to high-class

    Ethnic and trendy

    Reservations

    Bars

    Cafés

    Shopping

    Beacon Hill

    Back Bay

    Malls

    The South End

    Harvard Square

    Downtown and Fort Point

    Sport and Entertainment

    Baseball

    Football, hockey, and basketball

    Classical music, opera, and ballet

    Rock and pop

    Theater

    History: Key Dates

    Pre-Revolutionary Boston

    The battle for Independence

    19th century

    20th century

    21st century

    Boston Common and Downtown

    Boston Common

    Central Burying Ground

    Soldiers and Sailors Monument

    Frog Pond

    Park Street

    Old Granary Burying Ground

    Omni Parker House Hotel

    King’s Chapel and Burying Ground

    Old City Hall

    Old Corner Bookstore

    Old South Meeting House

    Old State House

    Boston Massacre

    Faneuil Hall

    Boston City Hall

    New England Holocaust Memorial

    Blackstone Block

    The North End and Charlestown

    Rose F Kennedy Greenway

    Hanover Street

    Paul Revere House

    Pierce-Hichborn House

    St Stephen’s Church

    Paul Revere Mall

    Old North Church

    Copp’s Hill Burying Ground

    Notable tombstones

    Charlestown

    Paul Revere Park

    City Square

    Charlestown Navy Yard

    USS Constitution

    Bunker Hill Monument and Museum

    Winthrop Square

    Savings Bank Building

    Harvard

    Harvard Yard

    New Yard

    Art museums

    Harvard Art Museum

    Lunch options

    Memorial Hall

    Peabody Museum

    Museum of Natural History

    Tanner Fountain

    Radcliffe Yard

    Longfellow House

    Toward the Charles River

    Harvard Business School

    Charles River and MIT

    Longfellow Bridge

    Museum of Science

    Eating options

    MIT

    List Visual Arts Center

    Ray and Maria Stata Center

    MIT Museum

    MIT West Campus

    MIT East Campus

    Harvard Bridge

    Boston Pops

    Beacon Hill and the Public Garden

    Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

    Massachusetts State House

    Boston Athenaeum

    Otis House Museum

    Nichols House Museum

    South slope streets

    North Slope streets

    Museum of African American History

    Vilna Shul and Lewis Hayden House

    Charles Street

    Beacon Street

    The Public Garden

    Back Bay

    Commonwealth Avenue

    Beacon Street

    Gibson House Museum

    Isabella Stewart Gardner’s home

    Goethe Institute

    Back on Commonwealth Avenue

    Notable mansions

    Shopping on Newbury Street

    Copley Square

    Trinity Church

    Boston Public Library

    New Old South Church

    Copley Place

    Prudential Center

    Christian Science Plaza

    Christian Science Church

    Mary Baker Eddy Library and Mapparium

    Back Bay Fens

    Kenmore Square

    Fenway Park

    The Back Bay Fens

    Art schools

    Two Art Museums

    Museum of Fine Arts

    Art of the Americas Wing

    Asian art

    Contemporary art

    Egyptian treasures

    Tenshin-En

    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

    The collection

    The South End

    Carleton Court Park

    Braddock Park

    Harriet Tubman Park

    Jorge Hernández Cultural Center

    Chester Square

    Blackstone and Franklin Squares

    Cathedral of the Holy Cross

    SoWa

    Parks

    Boston Center for the Arts

    Waterfront and Fort Point

    Faneuil Hall-Quincy Market

    Columbus Park

    Long Wharf

    New England Aquarium

    Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum

    Children’s Museum

    Boston Fire Museum

    Institute of Contemporary Art

    Harbor Islands

    Georges Island

    Lovells Island

    Spectacle Island

    Other islands

    Salem

    Witch Dungeon Museum

    Witch House

    McIntire Historic District

    Historic houses

    Peabody Essex Museum

    Phillips Library

    Witch Trials Memorial

    Salem Maritime National Historic Site

    The House of the Seven Gables

    Cape Ann

    Gloucester

    Cape Ann Museum

    Rocky Neck and Eastern Point

    Rockport

    Lexington and Concord

    Lexington

    National Heritage Museum

    Battle Green

    Battle Road

    Concord

    Literary homes

    Concord Museum

    Monument Square

    Old Manse

    Old North Bridge

    Walden Pond

    Gropius House

    Plymouth

    Around Pilgrim Memorial State Park

    Mayflower II

    Cole’s Hill

    Beside the town brook

    Jenney Grist Mill

    Richard Sparrow House

    Burial Hill

    Spooner House

    Mayflower Society House

    Pilgrim Hall Museum

    Town Wharf

    Plimoth Plantation

    Provincetown

    Ferry from Boston

    MacMillan Wharf

    Pilgrim Monument

    The East End

    Provincetown Art Association

    The West End

    Coastal cottages

    Cape Cod National Seashore

    Along the coast

    Accommodations

    Boston Common and Downtown

    The North End and Charlestown

    Harvard

    Charles River and MIT

    Beacon Hill

    Back Bay

    Back Bay Fens

    The South End

    Waterfront and Fort Point Channel

    Salem

    Cape Ann

    Concord

    Plymouth

    Provincetown

    Restaurants

    Boston Common and Downtown

    The North End and Charlestown

    Harvard

    Charles River and MIT

    Beacon Hill

    Back Bay

    Back Bay Fens

    The South End

    Waterfront and Fort Point Channel

    Cape Ann

    Lexington

    Concord

    Plymouth

    Provincetown

    Nightlife

    Bars, pubs, and lounges

    Live music

    Gay scene

    Dance clubs

    A-Z

    A

    Admission charges

    Age restrictions

    B

    Business hours

    C

    Children

    Child care

    Child-friendly tours

    Climate

    Crime and safety

    Customs regulations

    D

    Disabled travelers

    E

    Electricity

    Embassies and consulates

    Emergency numbers

    H

    Health and medical care

    Emergency dental care

    Hospitals

    Medical hotlines

    Pharmacies

    I

    Internet

    L

    Legal matters

    LGBTQ travelers

    Lost property

    Lost or stolen credit cards

    M

    Maps

    Media

    Money

    P

    Postal services

    Public holidays

    S

    Smoking

    T

    Taxes

    Telephones

    Time zones

    Tipping

    Toilets

    Tourist information

    Transportation

    Arrival by air

    From the airport

    Arrival by land

    Transportation within Boston

    Boston:

    Cambridge:

    Driving and car rental

    Bicycle rental

    V

    Visas

    W

    Websites

    Books and Film

    Books

    Non-fiction

    Fiction

    For children

    Films

    Recommended Routes For...

    Architecture

    Beacon Hill (Route 5), Back Bay (Route 6), and the South End (Route 9) feature grand architecture from the 17th to early 20th centuries. The Institute of Contemporary Art at Fort Point (Route 10) is a fantastic 21st-century addition.

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Art enthusiasts

    If you love art, don’t miss the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Route 8), or visit Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum (Route 12), Cape Ann’s art colonies (Route 13), or Provincetown’s galleries (Route 16).

    Abraham Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Children

    The Aquarium and the Children’s Museum (Route 10) are great for the little ones, as is the Museum of Science (Route 4). Don’t forget the USS Constitution (Route 2) and the Plimoth Plantation (Route 15) either.

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Food and wine

    Dine out in either the North End (Route 2) or South End (Route 9) and your stomach will be very happy. Harvard Square (Route 3) is also a fine place to eat, as is Newbury Street in Back Bay (Route 6).

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Parks and gardens

    Boston’s Emerald Necklace of parks and gardens extends from the Common (Route 1) through the Public Garden (Route 5) and Commonwealth Avenue’s central boulevard (Route 6) to the Back Bay Fens (Route 7).

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Revolutionary Boston

    Follow the Freedom Trail of revolutionary sites through Downtown (Route 1), North End and Charlestown (Route 2), then head out of town to follow the ‘Battle Road’ between Lexington and Concord (Route 14).

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Science and technology

    The Museum of Science and the MIT Museum and campus (Route 4) have outstanding boffin appeal, as do Harvard’s Peabody Museum and Museum of Natural History (Route 3).

    Richard Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Waterside views

    You are seldom far from water in Boston, be it the Charles River (Route 4) or Boston Harbor (Routes 2 and 10). To get out on the water, take a ferry to the Harbor Islands (Route 11) or Provincetown, Cape Cod (Route 16).

    Abraham Nowitz/Apa Publications

    Explore Boston

    Boston is considered the most ‘European’ of American cities – hardly surprising given its British colonial roots. But this is also the birthplace of the country’s independence, and home to some of its most illustrious Ivy League institutions.

    Boston is small (population 667,137 as of 2016) and compact (48.5 sq. miles/125 sq. km), making it an ideal city for discovering on foot. It may only be the 22nd-largest city in the US in size, but in historical legacy Boston is huge. Among the lofty phrases coined to describe the city are the ‘Cradle of Liberty’, the ‘Athens of America’, and ‘the Hub of the Universe’ (a variant of the latter was first used by one of Boston’s greatest literary sons Oliver Wendell Holmes to describe the State House).

    A rich heritage

    Many visitors come here to walk in the footsteps of the Founding Fathers and soak up the Old World atmosphere that nurtured some of America’s most gifted artistic, mercantile, and political talents, including the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82), the artist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), and President John F. Kennedy (1917–63). Boston plays up this rich heritage in projects such as the Freedom Trail, the Black Heritage Trail, and the Battle Road Trail between Lexington and Concord. That many historical monuments and sites have been preserved as part of the fabric of the city is a large part of Boston’s appeal. The US National Parks Service records 186 National Historic Landmarks in the state of Massachusetts; only New York State beats it with 261. A good proportion of these sites are found in the Boston city area and surrounding towns such as Concord, Lexington, Plymouth, Provincetown, and Salem.

    An aerial view of Boston’s old brownstones

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    View of Back Bay, Charles River, and Longfellow Bridge

    Dreamstime

    Harbor city

    Boston’s fortunes first came from its harbor, and this was a pivotal part of the city up until the early 20th century. With the end of the Big Dig and the city’s promotion of the HarborWalk route, attention is now flowing back to the long-neglected seashore. From May to mid-October you can take public ferries out to some of the 34 islands that are one of the city’s biggest, yet least-known, natural assets. Another is its Emerald Necklace of parks and gardens – Boston is one of America’s greenest cities. The Emerald Necklace – a corridor of interlinked parklands and gardens stretching for 7 miles (11km) from Boston Common to Franklin Park – was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). He also conceived the beautiful Esplanade park that hugs the south bank of the Charles River, but which was not built until the 1930s, and New York’s Central Park.

    Split personality

    Walking in Boston is often a necessity due to the traffic chaos (an old joke has it, ‘Shall we walk or do we have time to take a cab?’), but it is also a pleasure as walking enables one to savor the strange contradictions of this untypical town. The architecture – a blend of carefully preserved older buildings and gleaming new skyscrapers – express a part of this split personality, while the working class, immigrant character of much of the city brushes up against the Boston Brahmin persona. This most historic of American cities is also continually revived by the flow of students to its many educational facilities, which adds fresh blood to the mix and ensures the city is forward-looking.

    Two cities

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