Insight Guides Explore Boston (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

Description

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.

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789192759
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

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 ex cursions 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