Major touristic attractions

Boston Common

Location: Tra Boylston Park, Tremont e Beacon streets
Construction date: 1817
Kind of attraction: Park

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Is the departure point of the Freedom Trail and, with its 50acre, is on of the oldest public park in America. Trough the years the park location changed its use several times. Until the 1817 there was here the public hangings and it was a grazing until the 1830.
The British Army left the Boston Common after the meeting with the colonial resistance in Lexington and the sign of the treaty in the April of 1775.
Today in the Boston Common you can do many activities like a walk, a tour on the boat, a horse ride, etc.

Boston Public Library

Location: 666 Boylston Street, Copley Square
Construction date: 1888
Kind of attraction: Library

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Built in the 1888, the Boston Public Library is a 3 blocs building, everyone with a different history. Is the first American example of classic Renaissance art (Beaux-Arts Classicism), and, when it was built, it was the first big library in the Unite States. The building was constructed in a style very similar to the Italian Renaissance style and it was surrounded by an open court.
This library changed totally the management model in this field, particularly in America, in fact it was that one which lend the first book and the first whit a children room.

Bunker Hill Monument

Location: Monument Square
Construction date: 1843
Kind of attraction: Monument

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During the Bunker Hill, one of the first revolution battle against the Great Britain, the 17 June of the 1775 the British army, as well as the American, lost a lot of soldiers. At this battle, in Breed’s Hill, where most of the blood was spilled, was built a 67 m monument. A 294-step spiral staircase allow the visitors to admire a breathtaking view. Moreover dioramas and other historical finds tell how the English won the battle and how the Americans found the hope to win the war.

Fenway Park

Location: 4 Yawkey Way
Construction date: 1912
Kind of attraction: Stadium

Generation come and go, but the Red Sox house remain, much like its opening day, on the 20 April of the 1912. In that period it start to create the classical atmosphere with the characteristic hot dog with mustard. The Fenway Park is the smaller between the major league stadium and it can contain about 47,627 people, now not more than 33,871 because of the new fire law. One of its characteristic is that any player never did an home run on its field.

Freedom Trail

Location: Boston Common
Kind of attraction: Path

The Freedom Trail is 4 km path you can do following a red line trough some of the most important nation’s historic place in Boston. Included in those place there are the Paul Revere House, the Old North Church and its lantern ("one if by land, two if by sea", for alerting the colon of the British attack) and the Old South Meeting House where the colons, in the 1773, orchestrated the less than genteel Boston Tea Party. Considering the time that you need for stopping and watch the 16 attractions, the Freedom Trail can be covered in one hour or so. The rangers give free 90 minutes Freedom Trail Tours starting from the National Park Service Visitors Centre from 10 to 15, from April until September.

African Meeting House / Abiel Smith School & More

Location: Meeting House, 46 Joy Street. (617) 742-1853
Construction date: 1806 - 1834
Kind of attraction: Church and school

The Meeting House Church, constructed in 1806 on Beacon Hill, is the oldest black church built in the United States by African-American free artisans.
The Abiel Smith School, built in 1834, was called with that name after that a white business man left 2,000 dollars for the black children aducation. The Afro-American historical museum has several testimonies about the Afro-American culture in New England during the colonial age.
The Black Heritrage Trail is a 2,6 km path trough the largest historical collection about the free life of the afro-american community during the Civil War in the Unite States.

American Repertory Theatre

Location: 63 Brattle Street, Cambridge. (617) 547-8300
Kind of attraction: Theatre

The A.R.T. Is one of the most famous and beautiful theatre in the States and it won many awards. Is located at the Loeb Centre in Harvard Square and on its stage there are dramas, music, comedy, and important art masterpieces.
It was founded in the 1980 by Robert Brustain after that the Yale Repertory company divided and in the 2003 the Time Magazine inserted it in the top five regional theatre in the Unite States.

Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum

Location: Congress Street Bridge on Harbor Walk
Kind of attraction: Ship and Museum

It is closed for the public from when a fire damaged this attraction, and it will be close until it will be restored. The Tea Party Ship and Museum give to their visitors many exhibition, film projections and other memorable event. This boat is a size reproduction of one of the three original Boston Tea Party ships, the boats where there was the famous event about the patriot who throw in the see the whole British tee store of the sheep. This attraction allow the visitors to walk on a real old ship, in the corridors and in the hold.

Cambrige

Kind of attraction: Monument

Dominated by a couple of well-known institute, the Harvard and Massachusetts technology institute, is located close to the Charles where there are many café, library and boutique, therefore a lot of things to do for the visitors.
Its square, Central Square (government seat), Harvard Square (surrounded by the walls of the oldest American university), Inman Square (rich of shops and restaurants), Kendal Square (M.I.T. Seat) and Porter Square (with antique shops, botiques, cafe and a high concentration of Japanese companies) are all seat also of museum and historical sites.

Cambrige Common

Location: Tra Massachusetts Avenue, Garden Street, Harvard Square

It was focal point for religious activity, political and social for more then 360 years. Time ago it was four times bigger and it was used also as grazing, military training area and assembly area. The annual election was under the “Election Oak”. When the general George Washington arriver in Cambridge the 2 July of the 1775, the Cambridge Common was the major training field for the American Army. You can also find a monument composed by three British cannon captured by American patriots (Civil War Monument) and the memorial to the Irish Famine.