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Beacon Hill & Boston Common
Named for the light that topped it in the 17th century, Beacon Hill originally stood a bit taller until earth was scraped off its peak and put to use as landfill not far away. What remains is redolent...
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The Fenway & Kenmore Square
At the heart of the Fens is a marshy, meandering park, designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. You'll find pretty ponds and gardens and peace and quiet (if you can block out the students...
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Back Bay
The Back Bay is Boston's trendiest neighborhood, with beautiful boutiques, denim dens, ethnic eateries, hip henna, and cool cone parlors. It offers the best people watching in town, from the designer-bag...
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Cambridge
A kissing cousin across the Charles River from Boston, the "People's Republic of Cambridge" has long been a haven for writers, radicals, freethinkers, and iconoclasts of all kinds. Although Cambridge is...
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Downtown
The city's retail and financial districts constitute Downtown, anchored by Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market on the north; Chinatown, the Theater District, and South Station on the south; Tremont Street and...
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North End
This is a great neighborhood to visit. There's history-the Old North Church and Paul Revere's House. There's drama-the sense of having fallen through the rabbit hole into a little Italian village where...
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Charlestown
This neighborhood on the north end of the Charlestown Bridge, across from the North End, is home to Bunker Hill and the USS Constitution, a tangle of masts and rigging moored at the Charlestown Navy Yard...
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Government Center
Government Center is best known for Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, once the stage for fiery speeches and now a shopper's paradise, and most despised for the bleak design of City Hall Plaza. This area...
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Old West End
When Boston's 18th-century architects decided to go vertical with tall church steeples, they had no idea that their graceful edifices would one day repose in the shadow of 40-story skyscrapers. Today little...
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South End
Not to be confused with South Boston, this area, which hugs the south side of Huntington Avenue southeast of the Back Bay and due south of Chinatown, is another 19th-century development. But with its park-centered...
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