Location: Government Center
Top Things to do in Government Center
Top 10 Sights & Landmarks in Government Center, Massachusetts (MA)
Walk the Freedom Trail the first time you visit Boston and you'll quickly get a sense of this coastal city's revolutionary spirit and history. But make sure you also explore some of Boston's fine museums (try the Isabella Stewart Gardner, featuring masterpieces displayed in their collector's mansion) and old neighborhoods (like the North End, Boston's Little Italy). You can't claim to have experienced real Boston culture, though, until you've watched a Red Sox game from the bleachers.
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1. New England Holocaust Memorial
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2,507 reviews
The six glass towers of this striking memorial serve to represent the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, six main Nazi death camps and the candles on a menorah.
Reviewed By Gonen2014 - Haifa, Israel
This is a monument in memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The monument includes six square glass towers that symbolize the six nillion Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and the six largest concentration camps. Under each glass tower there is a niche that symbolizes an extermination camp from which smoke is rising. On the boards around you can read about the history of the Holocaust along with things that Holocaust survivors said. A very emotional monument that brings teatrs to your eyes as you walk along it. This is a must visit for everyone!
2. The Printing Office of Edes & Gill
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4.5 based on 368 reviews
The Printing Office of Edes & Gill, Boston’s only colonial era printing experience, We are open daily and located along the Freedom Trail at Faneuil Hall. Visitors will have the opportunity to engage living historians working their printers trade in pre-revolutionary Boston. We offer unique personal encounters with history and colonial printing. As Boston’s only colonial trade experience and only colonial living history interpretive experience, our historic equipment, live demonstrations, interpreters and historic settings enable new levels of understanding how colonial printing affected communities and sparked a revolution in America. We seek to recreate this experience for visitors and school groups to Boston’s Freedom Trail and to rekindle the spirit of Samuel Adams who urged fellow citizens to join this “animating contest of Liberty!”
Reviewed By MNDoubleB - Saint Paul, United States
The man that runs the printing press is about the nicest person I have ever met. I was part of a veterans tour and we were treated like VIPs. If you want to step back in time, and actually learn about America's history this is the place to go. You can actually print your own copy of the Declaration of Independence!
3. Haymarket Square
4. Faneuil Hall Marketplace
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4.0 based on 7,748 reviews
Located in the heart of downtown Boston, this bustling complex of novelty carts, distinctive shops, national chain stores, performers, food stands and restaurants brought new life to a historic meeting place.
Reviewed By Sallprice - Chelmsford, United Kingdom
This is a great food hall omg every food imaginable of every nationality you most visit here we always love to find the local food Market and this didn’t disappoint great atmosphere and great foods
5. King's Chapel Burial Ground
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4.0 based on 84 reviews
Reviewed By TravelingMerm - Monrovia, United States
You gotta love all the “burying grounds” in Boston - such fascinating history! And while the King’s Chapel burying grounds are smaller and less known, they still hold some notable internments, such as Mary Chilton (a Plymouth Pilgrim and the first European woman to step ashore in New England!) and the father of Ralph Waldo Emerson and also Hezekiah Usher (the first bookseller and book publisher in the British Colonies)! It’s Boston’s oldest burying ground and is a stop on the Freedom Trail. It’s an incredibly peaceful place in spite of being right smack in the middle of the bustling city. And so many of the headstones are truly beautiful works of art! And so old wow - I had no idea we had such history right here in the States lol! It’s easy to find, right off a busy main street in the city. I’m not sure about parking as my hotel was right in the heart of the city and I didn’t have a car...the city is so walkable and there are public parking garages scattered about.
6. Statue of Red Auerbach
7. Curley Memorial Plaza
8. Boston City Hall
9. Larry Bird Plaque
10. Government Center
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