Columbus Beer Festival
Whether you're visiting Boston for the first or twentieth time, I love exploring South End neighborhood of Boston, because spectacular architecture, the number of gourmet restaurants and nightlife, fashion boutiques and unique in its kind, dotted along all major streets and avenues. Although the South End next to the popular Back Bay, which is a bit outside the usual path of tourists from Boston because few monuments or places of interest there are historical. But if you walk 10-minutes of Back Bay in the whole garden full of Southwest Corridor Park to the south end, you will be delighted by the beauty of this mostly residential neighborhood Boston.
More housing in Boston's South End was built in the mid-1800s, after land for the area was created by filling a shallow bay. In fact, the neighborhood has the largest area of Victoria row of brick houses in the States United States and is registered in the National Register of Historic Places. If you are a fan of architecture, you will find an incredible variety of styles: the revival Renaissance, Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Italian and French Second Empire, Queen Anne, and more.
Best of all, most of these houses and magnificent detail iron rails and other ornaments have been meticulously restored over the last 30-40 years. Some areas, such as the Avenue Columbus, were originally designed to look like the boulevards of Paris, while in other areas, houses are grouped around the English-inspired parks and rails. These designs allow fabulous gardens, window box plantings and tree-lined streets.
South Washington Street, in an area now called "Sowa," you'll find canning first piano factories and other industrial buildings now transformed into artists' studios, galleries, and lofts. Sowa is where you'll find a series of art-related activities such as periodic open studios, "First Friday" gallery walks and Sowa Market Open where local and regional artisans display and sell their creations on Sunday afternoons from late spring through fall.
Boston's South End is most fashionable district of the city. You'll find lots of wonderful and innovative chef-owned restaurants such as the B & G Oysters, Aquitaine, and Hamersley Bistro. main Street and Columbus Avenue, Washington Street and Tremont Street, where you can also find lots of boutiques and gourmet markets.
Also you realize that the neighborhood is very dog. Dogs (and owners) can enjoy the Joe Wex Dog Recreation Space in Peters Park between Shawmut and the streets of Washington. And everyone enjoys one of the highlights of the Halloween season: the Annual Halloween Pet Parade, dogs wearing costumes library. As the macabre parade of canines across the extreme south through Boston Common, everyone smiles.
You can read more about Boston’s South End and its many interesting sites and fabulous restaurants on http://www.Boston-Discovery-Guide.com, where Susan shares lots more suggestions about other great Boston neighborhoods, attractions, and must-visit restaurants.
Columbus Beerfest 1 – Beer Recommendations