Bostonians consider their city the Hub of New England, and indeed history and nature have granted Boston lots to see and do for both adults and kids. More...

Finding your way around Boston is not particularly easy, so here's how to do it.

I've arranged Boston's best hotels by area so you can choose the one that will put you within walking distance of what you want to see and do. More...

Public transportation (subway, bus, Commuter Rail, trains, airplanes and ferryboats) can help as well. More...

One easy way to see Boston's top sights is to follow the Freedom Trail, which takes you to many colonial and Revolutionary War-era sights such as Boston Common, Beacon Hill, Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill, Old North Church, Paul Revere's house, and Old Ironsides. More...

Called "the Athens of America" during the 19th century, greater Boston is a major university area, with Boston University, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts and over 60 others. Tens of thousands of college students in Boston, Cambridge and adjoining cities keep Boston's spirit young.

Emphasis on learning also gives Boston world-class museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Gardner Museum, Museum of Science, and the John F Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, not to mention the great museums near Harvard Square.

Boston is the home of the Boston Celtics (basketball), the Boston Bruins (ice hockey), the Boston Red Sox (baseball), the New England Patriots (football) as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops.

It's also a major medical and financial center, high-tech mecca, transportation center, and the capital of the Commonwealth (state) of Massachusetts.

It's a great city for restaurants, and it has a full range of hotels.

Although Greater Boston today is home for over half of the six million people of Massachusetts, the city of Boston itself is a fairly small area with a population of something over 600,000. But if one adds in the populations of the neighboring cities such as Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville and so on, the total comes to over three million.

And yet Boston is one of the most livable and manageable cities in the world, with the big-city economic and cultural resources, but small-city spirit and pace of life.

Start your explorations of the city here: Finding Your Way Around Boston

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