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Experienced and first-time travelers alike rely on Fodor's Gold Guides for rich, reliable coverage the world over. Updated each year and containing a full-color, foldout Rand McNally map, a Fodor's Gold Guide is an essential tool for any kind of traveler. Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free. If you only have room for one guide, this is the one for you. The best guide to Boston, updated every year All the sights--from the Freedom Trail to the Fens, from Cambridge to Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market Discover Boston by neighborhood with great city walks Where to shop--plus the best music, theater, and nightlife Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget Charming inns, B&Bs, and hotels both historic and modern Posh restaurants, famous oyster bars, cozy North End coffeehouses--from old favorites to the newest places Plus scenic excursions to delight any day-tripper Historic Lexington and Concord, Thoreau's Walden Pond, Lowell, the North Shore's Cape Ann, and bewitching Salem 30 pages of maps--and dozens of unique features Important Contacts Smart Travel Tips A to Z What's Where Fodor's Choice Pleasures & Pastimes, the don't-miss activities Best bets for kids Festivals Background essays and further reading Complete index And more!

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New This Year Keeps you up to the minute on recent changes
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Under each listing you'll find tips and information that will help you accomplish what you need to in Boston
You'll also find addresses and telephone numbers of organizations and companies that offer destination-related services and detailed information and publications
Destination: Boston Helps get you in the mood for your trip
New and Noteworthy Cues you in on trends and happenings
What's Where Gets you oriented
Pleasures and Pastimes Describes the activities and sights that really make Boston unique
Great Itineraries These help you make the most of your time
Fodor's Choice Showcases our top picks from special restaurants and one-of-a-kind accommodations to out-of-the-ordinary sights and activities...
Let them inspire you! Festivals and Seasonal Events Alerts you to special Boston events you'll want to seek out
Exploring Boston Recommends a walking or driving tour and lists neighborhood sights alphabetically, including sights that are off the beaten path
Exploring Cambridge Recommends a walking or driving tour and lists neighborhood sights alphabetically, including sights that are off the beaten path
Dining Recommends the best for any budget in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, Allston, Brighton, and Jamaica Plain
Lodging A broad range of the best and most convenient hotels, bed & breakfasts, hostels, YMCAs, and YWCAs
Nightlife and the Arts Including cafes and coffeehouses
Outdoor Activities and Sports Spectator sports, participant sports and fitness, and beaches
Shopping The best and most diverse places to get what you want
Side Trips Beautiful excursions to the west of Boston, the North Shore, and south of Boston
Portraits of Boston Suggestions for pretrip research, from recommended reading to movies on tape that use Boston as a backdrop
Index List of Maps
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Pleasures and Pastimes Colleges
More than anything else, the Yankee investment in scores of colleges and universities in and around Boston has helped establish its present character. People come here for schooling and never go home. And every year in August and September, fleets of trucks, vans, and overloaded family sedans converge on the city as students of BC, BU, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and more than a dozen others welcome back the thousands of students who help rouse the city from its summer rest.

Day Trips
You've only to travel a short distance to visit sites connected with historical figures you started reading about back in grade school.

Festivals
Though Boston has been a popular summer tourist destination for many years, the fact is that whatever time of year you visit, the town has some event going on.

History
Perhaps no one today would speak of the Boston State House as "the hub of the solar system," as Oliver Wendell Holmes once did, yet it is very much at the heart of American history, both past and present. So much of the political ferment that spawned the nation took place here. The earthly remains of Cotton and Increase Mather, the 17th-century Boston theocrats, are in Copp's Hill Burying Ground; the chips in the headstones came about during British soldiers' target practices, and you can still see the pockmarks of musket balls. It was at Faneuil Hall that Samuel Adams first suggested, in 1772, that the Colonies organize a Committee of Correspondence to maintain lines of communication in the face of British repression. In the North End is the Old North Church, famous for the two lanterns that glimmered from its steeple on the night of April 18, 1775, warning Americans of British troop movements by sea. Heroes of the American Revolution are buried in its Old Granary Burial Ground: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, James Otis, Paul Revere. American portraitist Gilbert Stuart is buried in the Central Burying Ground, along with scores of British casualties of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Moored in Fort Point Channel is a replica of one of the ships whose forcible unloading occasioned the famous Boston Tea Party. And all around these sights and sites are vintage buildings, both maintained and restored, so that the feeling of history surrounding you is almost palpable.

Parks and Gardens
The Boston Common, the oldest public park in the United States, is only one of Boston's green spaces. The Boston Public Garden, which abuts it across Charles Street, is the country's oldest botanical garden; the irregularly shaped pond in the center is famous for the swan boats that cruise it in warm months. The Fens, a landscape of meadows, trees, gardens, and reed-bound pools designed by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, marks the beginning of Boston's famous Emerald Necklace, a chain of parks that extends along the Fenway, Riverway, and Jamaica Way to Jamaica Pond, the Arnold Arboretum, and Franklin Park. This loosely connected necklace of green has made Boston famous among 20th-century urban planners.

Walking
Boston is on a human scale, and it is best experienced by walking. The North End, Boston's Italian neighborhood, just a 20-minute walk from Beacon Hill, is quite another world. The highlight of any visit to Boston in should be the memory of walks and sights around town: along the red brick sidewalks of Beacon Hill (particularly Pinckney, Mt. Vernon, Chestnut, and Beacon streets), along the Freedom Trail through the crannied lanes of the North End, catching the Charles River breezes from the Esplanade, along the shores of the Public Garden's pond, along the Boston Harbor waterfront at the back side of the New England Aquarium, and through the Arnold Arboretum, especially in spring, when its lilacs, azaleas, rhododendrons, and fruit trees are in full bloom. Another memorable walk: from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, down Newbury Street to Gloucester Street, right on Gloucester to Commonwealth Avenue, and right on Commonwealth to the Public Garden.

Excerpted from Boston '99: The Complete Guide with Great City Walks, the Best Dining and Country Day Trips by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
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