Neighborhoods In Boston

Back Bay and the South End

In the roster of famous American neighborhoods, the Back Bay stands with New York's Park Avenue and San Francisco's Nob Hill as a symbol of...

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• 19 Hotels
• 117 Things To Do

Beacon Hill, Boston Common, and the Old West End

Beacon Hill is Boston at its most Bostonian. Redbrick row houses dressed with black shutters and the occasional violet-hued windowpane filter into view, and narrow...

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• 9 Hotels
• 73 Things To Do

Boston Outskirts

The expansion of Boston in the 1800s went beyond the Back Bay and the South End. As the working population of the Downtown district swelled...

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• 0 Things To Do

Cambridge

Boston's Left Bank—an uber-liberal academic enclave—is a must-visit if you're spending more than a day or two in the Boston area. Cambridge is packed with...

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• 9 Hotels
• 73 Things To Do

Charlestown

This is Boston's beginning. Charlestown was a thriving settlement a year before colonials headed across the Charles River at William Blaxton's invitation to found the...

• 15 Restaurants
• 0 Hotels
• 11 Things To Do

Downtown Boston

Boston's commercial and financial districts are concentrated in a maze of streets laid out with little logic. They are, after all, only village lanes that...

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• 8 Hotels
• 35 Things To Do

Government Center

The curving six-story Center Plaza building, across from the newly redone glass entrance of the Government Center T stop and the broad brick desert of...

• 8 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 20 Things To Do

The Fenway and Kenmore Square

The Back Bay Fens marshland gave this neighborhood its name, but two iconic institutions give it its character: Fenway Park, which in 2004 saw the...

• 12 Restaurants
• 3 Hotels
• 9 Things To Do

The North End

On the northeast side of Government Center is the North End, Boston's Little Italy. In the 17th century the North End was Boston, as much...

• 23 Restaurants
• 1 Hotels
• 20 Things To Do

The Seaport, South Boston, and East Boston

• 32 Restaurants
• 5 Hotels
• 26 Things To Do