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Boston is a real cosmopolitan city, international, chosen good cities of the United States, the ideal place whether to vacation. Known also in the American city "to visit afoot" without doing too work. From the shops of world level to the typical restaurants, from the animation and to the culture of the center, from the magic beaches of Cape Cod and to the Islands, the state of the Massachusetts offers a lot of alternatives. AIRPORT: International airport of Logan, Boston Massachusetts Port Authority One Harborside Drive, Suite 200S East Boston, MA 02128-2909 Tels: 1-800-23-LOGAN TTYs: 1-800-262-3335 www.massport.coms Him airport of Logan is found to three miles (5 kms around) from the center in Boston covered by ferries, half public and taxi. Service shuttle free on the buses "massport." The Massport Water Shuttle offers you a passage in boat from the airport to the dock Rowes Wharf, in the center in Boston. The ticket costs $8,00. TRANSPORTS: MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) Tel. (617) 222-3200 (www.mbta.com) You MBTA manages daily services on bus, trains and streetcar. The subway is denominated "T" and the ticket costs $1,00. It enrolls her "Boston Passport" (purchasable to the "Terminal E" of the Logan or near a lot of stations of the metropolitan MBTA, near the hotels of the metropolitan area and near the Center Tourist Information of the Boston Common and the Prudential Center. Price for adults: 1 day: $6,00; 3 days: $11,00; 7 days: $22,00.) it gives right to 1, 3 or 7 days of trip on her "T" to boundless chilometraggio on the four lines of the subway (marked by different colors) and on all the local buses. Railway service: The Amtrak Service effects departures from the South Station to hourly lilt with destination New York, Philadelphia and Washington. He/she offers besides a frequent service of connection with other destinations in the United States. Tel. (617) 482-3660 www.amtrak.coms /. Service bus: An ample service is available bus in the whole Massachusetts. All the buses make terminal to the South Station. The box-office is found to the 3° floor of the center you transport. Tel. (617) 330-1230. I rent automobiles: The societies of rental automobiles are situated is near the airport Logan that in the center in Boston Cambio it appraises: To Boston there are many offices and institutes preceded to the change currencies (banks and offices of trips) Credit cards and Travelers cheque: the public exercises accept the principal credit cards and travelers cheque. Some restaurants accept only the cash payment. Some exercises could ask you for a document (passport or other document) before accepting the travelerses cheque. Middle temperatures: Spring (April and May): from 5°C to 22°C Summer (June - August): from 22°C to 33°C Autumn (September - November): from 7°C to 24°C Winter (December - March): from -9°C to 7°C Suits: Middly dressed heavy the whole year they are proper; they recommend him nevertheless light suits in the summer months and a coat it is in winter mandatory. Of rule, a particular attire is not in demand in the places in which he dines. Some restaurants of Boston and certain tourist places require, the evening, a formal attire (jacket and tie for the man) in slang "dressed-up." Restaurants: The most greater part in the restaurants they have schedules of the type 18.00 - 22.00 (deferred weekend) Alcoholic: In the Massachusetts, the age to which is allowed to consume alcoholic is 21 years. The check happens behind presentation of a driver's licence released by the state of the Massachusetts, of one enrolls for the purchase of super alcoholic released by the Register of the Motorization of the state or however of other licence in progress of validity released by another state or preceded corporate body. It is advisable to the foreigners to always bring itself the passport to allow to verify the age. Attractions and Fun: Boston is a modern metropolis that, with his numerous and marvelous historical buildings, all well preserved ones and restructured, it reverberates at the same time the American history and a certain European charm. The city is a perfect mixture of ancient and modern. Romantic alleys of pebbles with houses of red bricks, planted with trees avenues, historical buildings, ancient churches, coffees on the road and spacious parks trace the profile of the city harmonizing himself/herself/itself to modern streetcars, to the commercial centers and the towers of mirrors that delineate the fascinating skyline in Boston. The city is known today as the center of the medicine, of the high technology, of the finance, of the education and of the art; to every angle he/she offers suggestions historical and inimitable opportunities for the shopping. Boston results more compact than every other great American city however. The capital of the Massachusetts can be visited afoot quietly, better if crossing the '' Freedom Trail '' - Path of the Liberty - a walk through the history. The continuous red line, that extends him for almost six kilometers along the pedestrian roads in Boston, conducts to 16 places of historical interest. Point of ideal departure is the central one '' Boston Common '', the first American public park that, together with the '' Public Gardens '' - Public Gardens - it constitutes the green lung of the city. Other tappe along the '' Freedom Trail '' I am the stately one '' State House '', last abode of the patriot Samuel Adams, the '' Old Corner Bookstore '' (ex place of meeting), the '' Old South Meetinghouse '' and the '' Old Be House '' - the governors' ex center English to the times of the '' Bay Colony '' -. The historian '' Faneuil Hall '' - the so-called Crib of the Liberty -, used since 1742 as I center. Country of the Kennedies, center of the Harvard University and the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), abandoned in the enviable position between the Charles River and the Atlantic ocean. In fact Boston (and in general the Massachusetts) is a city full of young people because the same one includes many university campuses and not, the parties are to the agenda and the places they swarm with people, orchestrate live and quant'altro can be waited us!!!! GOOD TRIP!!! "