Boston – Discover a city with roots in the past and eyes to the future.
Check out all the best places to visit in Boston.
Boston is the capital, as well as the largest city, of Massachusetts. Founded in 1630, it is one of the oldest cities in the United States of America.
The key role it played during the American Revolution is highlighted by the Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile road that passes through historic sites important to the city’s founding.
One of the stops is the old meeting hall Faneuil Hall, now a popular marketplace.
Boston shares many cultural roots with greater New England, including a dialect of the non-rhotic Eastern New England accent known as the Boston accent and a regional cuisine with a large emphasis on seafood, salt, and dairy products.
Boston also has its own collection of neologisms known as Boston slang and sardonic humor.
In the early 1800s, William Tudor wrote that Boston was “‘perhaps the most perfect and certainly the best-regulated democracy that ever existed.
There is something so impossible in the immortal fame of Athens, that the very name makes everything modern shrink from comparison; but since the days of that glorious city I know of none that has approached so near in some points, distant as it may still be from that illustrious model.
From this, Boston has been called the “Athens of America” (also a nickname of Philadelphia) for its literary culture, earning a reputation as “the intellectual capital of the United States”.
