6 Local Spots in Boston Tourists Don't Know About
6 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Back Bay
Boston, United States
Back Bay is Boston's most architecturally cohesive neighbourhood — a grid of Victorian brownstone rowhouses built on filled land in the second half of the 19th century, with wide avenues, tree-lined sidewalks, and Newbury Street running through its centre as the city's premier shopping and dining strip.
Beacon Hill
Boston, United States
Beacon Hill is Boston's most beautiful neighbourhood — a steep hillside of Federal-style brick rowhouses, gas-lit streetlamps, and cobblestone lanes that hasn't fundamentally changed since the early 19th century.
Charles River Esplanade
Boston, United States
The Esplanade is a three-mile ribbon of parkland along the Charles River basin that serves as Boston's running track, cycling path, and outdoor living room from April through October.
North End (Little Italy)
North End, Boston, 02113, United States
The North End is Boston's oldest residential neighbourhood and its most delicious — a dense tangle of narrow streets packed with Italian restaurants, bakeries, espresso bars, and salumerias that has been the heart of Boston's Italian-American community since immigrants from Sicily and Naples began arriving in the 1860s.
Seaport District
Boston, United States
The Seaport is Boston's newest neighbourhood — transformed over the past two decades from parking lots and surface lots into a dense cluster of glass-and-steel buildings that houses the ICA, dozens of restaurants, and a waterfront promenade that has become one of the city's most popular walking routes.
South End
Boston, United States
The South End contains the largest intact collection of Victorian rowhouses in the United States — block after block of bow-fronted brownstones with stoops, wrought-iron railings, and ornamental cornices that make the neighbourhood one of the most architecturally distinctive in America.
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