1. Individual sightseeing tour Boston - Cambridge
- 4 hours
Boston is the largest city in New England, the birthplace of the American Revolution and the anti-slavery movement. You will visit the old city districts of Beacon Hill and the North End, along which the famous Freedom Trail runs; the elegant Back Bay with its Blob Square and the masterpiece of American architecture, Trinity Church, the Christian Science complex and the famous Symphony Hall. On the other side of the Charles River in Cambridge are two of the most prestigious educational institutions in the country: the oldest in America, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cambridge is the town where Henry Longfellow and Vladimir Nabokov lived.
Note: A sightseeing tour of Boston can be supplemented by a visit to one of the museums listed below.
- Art Museum, known for one of the finest collections of Impressionist art in America, with the largest collection of Claude Monet outside France.
- Isabella Gardner Museum, a 15th-century Italian castle moved to Boston by arts patron Isabella Gardner in the late 19th century. It was left to the city as a museum containing a collection of paintings and decorative arts.
- Harvard University Museums, including the Natural History Museum with a unique collection of glass flowers.
2. Individual excursion to Concord and the DeKardov Sculpture Park and Museum
- 7 hours
Concord is a typical New England town with a rich history, the site of the first battles of the American Revolution. DeCordova Park Museum is a unique sculpture park on the shore of a lake on the grounds of a turn-of-the-century estate. Next to the park is the Walter Gropius House Museum.
3. Individual excursion to Newport
- 9 hours
Newport, Rhode Island – the most fashionable American resort of the late nineteenth century. Bellevue Avenue with the estates of the Astors, Vanderbilts, Belmonts, reproducing the architecture of French palaces and Italian palazzos; the historic colonial center of the city; the tennis museum; a walk along the protected coastline; a beautiful view of the bay with yacht clubs, from where the most famous cruising yacht race “American Cap” begins. A visit to one or two museums.
4. Individual excursion to Plymouth
- 8 hours
Plymouth is the first European settlement in New England. The Plymouth Rock monument, the May Flower P ship that brought the first settlers from England, the Plymouth Plantation ethnographic museum, which recreates the first settlement of the seventeenth century and an Indian village. Visiting cranberry plantations.
