Freedom Trail, Boston’s historic city center

The Freedom Trail offers a good opportunity to get better acquainted with Boston’s historic city center. The starting point is Boston Common. This large green space in the heart of the inner city used to be used as grazing land, a military camp and a place of execution.

From there, a red line on the asphalt demarcates the 2.5-mile trail leading past more than a dozen sites of interest associated with the Revolutionary War: hence the Granary Burying Ground, where several of the signers of the Declaration of Independence rest in peace. The historic trail ends at the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. In 1775, American militiamen and British soldiers faced one another in a battle on nearby Breed’s Hill for the first time.