Physical Features

Boston is lies on the Atlantic seaboard and fronts on the Boston Harbor. Boston is the oldest large city in the United States, founded over 350 years ago and filled with history, charm and adventure. The city is composed of old buildings and streets that help make the city unique and historical. Founded by Puritans, many political leaders came from this great city.
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Boston is an irregular shaped city and is relatively small, comprising only 47 square miles. Comprised of mostly old buildings, the city has recently gone through a period of renewal as the city has brought in new office buildings, large housing developments, extensive restoration, and a vigor unknown for decades.
Downtown Boston is below the merging of the Charles, Mystic and Chelsea rivers. The oldest park in the nation is located in Boston, called the Public Garden. The city is equipped with subways, surface and elevated lines and numerous bus lines, as well as railways.
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Boston has a continental climate with very changeable weather patterns such as wide temperature swings in a matter of days, and unseasonal snowfalls. Summers are usually sunny, hot and humid, the temperature in July averaging 82°F (28°C). Winters, by contrast, are bitterly cold, windy, wet and snowy. Boston averages 42 inches (108cm) of snowfall annually, much of it deposited in north-easterly storms. The best time to travel to Boston is in late spring or early autumn, when the weather is warm and pleasant. Autumn is particularly lovely when New England's trees wear their colorful fall foliage.
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