The largest city in New England, Boston is among the top ten most populous in the United States. Its history began in the first third of the 17th century, and today the suburbs of Boston, as well as its historic center, can tell the curious traveler a lot about those distant times.
Scientist world with a capital letter
In the suburbs of Boston and in the city itself, about a hundred educational institutions of the rank of a college or university are concentrated, and therefore it bears the unofficial status of the American capital of higher education and scientific research. The most famous among the higher schools - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University were founded in 1861 and 1636 in a suburb of Boston called Cambridge.
Boston and Cambridge are separated by the Charles River, from the banks of which it is very convenient to watch New Year's fireworks and fireworks on Independence Day.
Harvard is famous not only for the excellent education that can be obtained as a student, but also for its graduates, whose fame has long crossed the boundaries of campuses and Harvard yard. Eight future presidents of the United States and more than seventy Nobel laureates once sang Gaudeamus here. Harvard confidently holds first place in the country and in the number of graduates who have made billions of dollars, and its library fund is the richest in the United States.
You can wander the old shady alleys of the university park and admire the magnificent panorama of Boston from the Cambridge bank of the Charles River, rub the toe of the boot of a statue of John Harvard for good luck and find out why the length of the Harvard Bridge is measured in "troubles" during a tour of the most beautiful suburb of Boston.
Kennedy was born here
The 35th US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, founded in the first half of the 17th century. Among the first colonists from the Old World to land here were Kennedy's ancestors from Ireland.
The main attraction of Brookline is its parks. This Boston suburb offers strolls through Olmstead Park, part of the famous Emerald Necklace of Massachusetts' capital.
Boston pencil
This monument in the Boston suburb of Charlestown is visible from many points of the city. It looks like a sharply sharpened pencil, rushing from the sky over Massachusetts for almost 70 meters. The obelisk was erected in honor of the largest battle during the American Revolution, which took place in 1775. About three hundred steps of a narrow spiral staircase inside the monument lead to the observation deck, which offers magnificent panoramic views of Logan Airport, the suburbs of Boston, and its business center.
