It was in Massachusetts that the popular American Thanksgiving Day was born. Historians claim that when the English from the ship "Mayflower" landed on the shores of the future state, the Indians helped them to settle down. In honor of this during the first harvest in October 1621, the colonists arranged a three-day feast. And Massachusetts gave the world the idols of classic rock - the group Aerosmith and The Cars and stars of world literature - Nathaniel Gottorna and Henry Longfellow.
The capital of the state is Boston
Other major cities - Plymouth, Gloucester, Worcester, Cambridge, Lowell, Springfield
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How to get here
You can get from Moscow to Boston only with a transfer, for example in New York. Convenient docking is offered by Aeroflot. Ticket for an adult passenger at one end will cost about 30 thousand rubles.
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Climate of Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, the climate is oceanic. There is a lot of precipitation here. In summer it is warm and humid, and in winter it is cool, windy and often snowing. At the same temperature fluctuations in different districts of the state are significant: in Boston in winter below +2 ° C, the thermometer does not drop, while in Plymouth at the same time it is usually -3 ° C.
Massachusetts entertainment, excursions and attractions
Unofficially Massachusetts is called state bays. Here they are immediately 4: Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Buzzards and Narragansett. In the west of the state there are the Taconic and Berkshire mountain ranges. Thanks to such a rich nature, ecotourism is popular here. In the town of Stockbridge, for example, the Berkshire Botanical Garden is located, and in Pittsfield - the arboretum.
The national park of the peninsula Cape Cod. It has a huge area on which are beautiful ponds, forests and, of course, beaches of the Atlantic coast. For the cultural program, of course, you should go to the cities. And the first thing - in Boston!
Cultural Boston
Boston is one of the oldest and richest cities in the USA. Of course, the capital of the state has many cultural attractions: more than 70 universities and colleges, including the famous Harvard University, which have their own museums of history, arts and local history. Be sure to visit the world-famous Museum of Fine Arts!
Historic Plymouth
Tourists aspire to Plymouth because this town is the first settlement of New England. There are a large number of museums, including the open air: they introduce visitors to the events that took place in New England in the early 17th century
Since 1957, tourists are pleased to visit the exact copy of the Mayflower, on which the British arrived in the New World . Now "Mayflower 2 "- a museum, but it still, as they say, afloat - its shipping qualities have kept it . It's interesting that some of the money for building a copy of the famous vessel was collected by schoolchildren across America . Let's return to the Englishmen who arrived on the ship to the future Massachusetts : they landed on and the place now called the Plymouth Rock, and now it is one of the main attractions of the city . Near the rock there is the National Monument of the Ancestors .
Fisherman's Gloucester
If you go to Gloucester - a major center of industrial fishing, then for sure you will not pass by the business card of the town - a monument to a fisherman. It was established in 1925 in honor of the 300th anniversary of Gloucester, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places of the Country. And in 2001, his wife joined the fisherman. Monument to the wife was created by sculptor Morgan Folds Pike.
Car Brooklyn
In Brooklyn one should go to tourists who are not indifferent to cars, especially rarity. After all, here is the Lars Anderson Museum with the oldest in the US collection of cars. Anderson bought his first car in 1899. After he changed more than 30 cars, but did not sell the old ones. Now the collection is owned by the authorities of Brooklyn. Now in the exposition you can see not only the old cars, but also 24 horse-drawn carriages, 6 sledges and a collection of old bicycles. There are also festivals, which are attended by the owners of vintage cars from different US cities.
Greylock Mountain
At the top of the highest in the state of Massachusetts, the Greylock Mountains has a tower 28 meters high. This is a memorial to the heroes of the war. The monument was built in 1932 in honor of veterans of the First World War. At its top, like a lighthouse, powerful lamps burn, which shine for more than a hundred kilometers!
Museum of Whalers at New Bedford
New Bedford was famous for its whaling industry in the 19th century, it is here that the most famous book about whalers begins - the novel by Herman Melville "Moby Dick". At the beginning of the last century, namely in 1903, a museum of whalers opened. Now it has more than 200 thousand exhibits, including thousands of authentic ship magazines. By the way, the museum is only a part of the National Historical Whaling Park, which also includes the "old" district of the city, the schooner Ernestina and other attractions.
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