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| Boston is a fabulous city with a wonderful balance of old and new architecture, important US history, and stunning art galleries. This page will truly be a snapshot, with many 'clickable' thumbnails to give an overall impression of what Boston offers. First a little history. Puritans settled in Boston in 1630. It was also in Boston that ideas for independence from Britian began. The American Revolution started over taxation. The colonists had to pay taxes back to Britain, but had no right to vote. One of the most famous protests against taxation, is the Boston Tea Party (1773). Here Boston patriats boarded 3 British East India Company ships and threw their cargoes of tea into Boston Harbor. In todays terms, millions of dollars of tea where thrown overboard. I must admit before I moved to Boston, I thought the Tea Party really was a Tea Party - couldn't ever figure out what the fuss was all about! |
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| Freedom Trail | Mother Goose | Old State House | Spring in Boston | ||
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| Customs House | Faneuil Hall | Kingfish Hall | Performer | Trinity Church | |
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| Louisburg Square | Charles Street | Beacon Hill | |||
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| I can't leave Boston with at least pointing to my all time favourite places! The Boston Museum of Fine Arts opened in 1876 in one the five largest art museums in the USA. Its permanent collection ranging from Eqyptian artifacts to paintings by Picasso - is a must for any art lover. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum caters to my Italian fettish. Isabella Stewart Gardner travelled the world and bought back facades of a Venetian palazzo to be her home and to house her notable collection of Old Masters and Italian Renaissance pieces. | |||||