 Boston
has grown up around Boston Common , which was set
aside as public land in 1634. The obvious first stop on
any tour of the city, it is also one of the gems in the
string of nine parks (six of which were designed by Frederick
Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect) known
as Boston's Emerald Necklace . Another gem is the
lovely Public Garden , across Charles Street, where
the two-ton swan boats ($1.50), which paddle across
the main pond, are a less-than-natural, though whimsical,
focal point.
The visitor center - the start of the Freedom
Trail - is near the tapering north end of the Common.
As you stand here, facing up Tremont Street with the
State House away to your left, the main shopping
district, Quincy Market , and the waterfront
are slightly ahead and down to the right. The modern
concrete wasteland of Government Center is straight
up Tremont Street.with the North End beyond -
first Irish, then Jewish, and now very definitely Italian. |
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