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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > North America > USA > Boston
Boston. Pop. 596,638. State – Massachusetts MA. Currency – US Dollar, Language – English. Time Zone – GMT minus 5 hours. Main Airport – General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport BOS. Average Temperatures minus 1.75°C (Jan), 23.5°C (Jul). Best time to go – early spring to autumn – winter can be bitterly cold with heavy snowfalls. Boston is the capital and the most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the largest city in New England. Founded in 1630, Boston is one of the oldest and most culturally significant cities in the United States, and is recognized as a global or world city. The city's economy is based on higher education, research, health care, finance, and technology—principally biotechnology. Citizens of Boston are called Bostonians. The city lies at the center of Greater Boston, which also includes the cities of Cambridge, Quincy, and Newton, the town of Brookline, and many suburban communities farther from Boston. The Greater Boston area also encompasses portions of the state of New Hampshire. The city also lies at the center of the Boston-Worcester-Manchester Combined Statistical Area (CSA), the fifth-largest CSA in the nation. The Boston metropolitan area, which covers less ground than the CSA, is the nation's eleventh largest. The city is famous for its role in the American war(s) of Independence. The Boston Tea Party and the nearby battles of Lexington and Concord established Boston as the ‘The Cradle of Liberty’, a name earned during and after the independance struggle in the 18th century. To commemorate Independence Day on the 4th of July, Boston has arguably the largest public celebration in the US which ends with the huge Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade along the Charles river. As befits a centre of culture and learning Boston has many museums, galleries and historical buildings - Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Museum of Science, New England Aquarium, and the USS Constitution Museum. Bostonians love their sport and the city has some iconic names including – Boston Red Sox (Baseball), Boston Celtics (Basketball), Bruins (Ice Hockey), and The New England Patriots (Gridiron Football).
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Boston Hotels Reservation including – Onyx Hotel, Park Plaza Hotel, Omni Parker House Hotel, Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel, Tremont House Hotel, Langham Hotel, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Beacon Hill and Charleston Hotels.
The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team competing in the Eastern Division of the American League. Their home stadium, Fenway Park, opened on April 20, 1912, making it the oldest major league ballpark still in operation. The Red Sox won the first World Series as the Boston Americans in 1903 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. They won their most recent World Series championship in 2004, after an 86-year interval.
Boston is the largest city in New England, the capital of the state of Massachusetts, and one of the most historic, wealthy and influential cities in the United States of America.
The official team site containing news, scores, audio and video files, player statistics, and schedules.
Official site for the City of Boston. The city was first incorporated as a town in 1630, and as a city in 1822, and is one of America’s oldest cities, with a rich economic and social history. What began as a homesteading community eventually evolved into a center for social and political change. Boston has since become the economic and cultural hub of New England.
General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, (IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with over 27 million passengers a year. It serves as a focus city for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways, and JetBlue Airways. Continental Connection also operates a small regional hub at Logan.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that is world renowned for its Science and Engineering programs. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[3] with a strong emphasis on theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities as well as a sea-grant and space-grant university.
MIT is devoted to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in areas that contribute to or prosper in an environment of science and technology.
The online edition of the Boston Globe newspaper. The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region.
Hotel Discounts in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Maps of Boston including city, subway, street, weather, map of Massachusetts and more.
Original photography of Boston and New England featuring fountains, night, Chinatown, weather, Central Square, Boston Public Library, Faneuil Hall, and much more.
