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Boston private guides and walking tours
We're excited to add Boston, our newest city, to the Context pantheon. Here, with a number of alumni docents from our programs in Rome, Paris, and elsewhere, we're ready to help you dig deeply into the history and artistic patrimony of this American treasure.
- thematic walks
- historian-led
- slow travel approach
Check out the John Singer Sargent Seminar, a tour focused on this seminal American painter.
the North End, Portrait of a City
Featured Walks in Boston
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North End Boston, Portrait of a City
Since its founding in 1630, Boston has embodied many of the historical themes that have shaped America including commerce, political revolution, social innovation, and waves of imm
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Museum of Fine Arts
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is one of the country's oldest and most important art museums. With a collection that spans millennia and the globe, the MFA provides an endless opport
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Brahmins of Boston
At the dawn of the 19th century, descendants of the original Puritan settlers of Boston began to adopt a more enlightened, cosmopolitan, and progressive set of social and political
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Big Dig
In the 1990s work began on what at the time was—and still is—one of the most ambitious urban engineering projects in history: the burying of Boston's highway system to free its his
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