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THREE GUIDED WALKS

Given the difficulties of driv ing in boston, Cambridge, the Massachusetts Institute of
it is fortunate that its compact layout and technology (MIt), is known for its modern
ubiquitous sidewalks make it an ideal art. south boston is a secret often jealously
walking city. these three walks show the guarded by its inhabitants. although
city’s extremes – the dense riches of a Dorchester Heights was a critical site in the
university cam pus, the unexpected american revolution, few Freedom trail
pleasures of an intensely residential walkers ever make the detour to appreciate
neighborhood, and boston’s most famous the high vantage on boston’s outer harbor.
walking tour along the historic Freedom In addition to these three walks, each of the
trail. While Harvard (see pp112–6) gets the five areas of boston described in the area
lion’s share of attention among the boston- by area section of this book indicates a
area universities, its younger neighbor in walk on its street-by-street map.

Choosing a WalK

The Three Walks
This map shows the location of the three
guided walks in relation to the main
sightseeing areas of Boston.

The Freedom
MiT Campus Trail continued
(p123) (pp128–9)

south Boston
The Freedom (pp124–5)
Trail (pp126–7)

Key 0 kilometers 1
Walk route 0 miles 1
Grand architecture and extensive parkland at the
MIT campus (p123)

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