Car Hire Boston - Mini guide to Boston

With a reputation as America’s intellectual city, and situated in the lovely New England region, Boston offers a unique quality to visitors. 300 years after the infamous Boston tea party, the English, and indeed all foreigners are warmly welcomed to this historic yet cosmopolitan North American city.

since its founding in the 1620s, Boston has survived as an important commercial and maritime trade centre. The North End, Boston's oldest neighborhood and home to much of the city's Italian population is a maze of windy streets and quaint coffeshops centred around Salem Street. Paul Revere house, Old North Church, Quincy Market and the historic suburb of Faneuil Hall all have important links to the country’s past.

Boston's most affluent neighborhood, Beacon Hill is nearby, easily identified by the gilt dome of the Massachusetts State House, still in use 200 hundred years later. Other historical buildings of note on ‘the hill’ include the Old State House, from the balcony of which Bostonians first heard the Declaration of Independence read; and the Old South Meeting House, where a 1774 grievance session about a new tax lead to the Boston tea party.

The pleasant river esplanade fronts the modern CBD and is easily explored on foot. You can chose to follow the river upstream through pleasant parks, or wander through the city to the Theater district, Southside and Chinatown.

Lively by night, Boston has many fine restaurants, great bars and an mature social scene.