Marblehead and Salem – Tour from Boston

Itinerary

You will be picked up from your hotel in Boston and taken in an air-conditioned coach for a sightseeing tour of Marblehead and Salem.

The seafaring village of Marblehead, 17 miles north of Boston, is a treasure from a bygone age of sea-going commerce. Preserved here on a rocky outcrop on the coast surrounded by the cold, blue Atlantic is one the best collections of pre-revolutionary buildings in America.

While in Marblehead you will visit Abbott Hall (closed Sundays) to hear a short lecture and view the original painting, "The Spirit of 76."

Continue to Salem, your time here is at leisure, some of the attractions you may wish to visit are:

The Salem Witch Museum: Facing the Salem Common is the imposing stone Romanesque building that houses the famous Salem Witch Museum. Visitors are offered a complete look at one of the most important, emotional, and tragic events in American history, the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

The US Custom House, where Nathaniel Hawthorne had worked as Surveyor, from 1847-1849, and which finds mention in his The Scarlet Letter.

The 17th century House of the Seven Gables, New England's oldest standing mansion, which inspired Salem-born Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name.

The shops and restaurants at Pickering Wharf will provide an ideal place for lunch or simply a relaxing stroll.

At the end of your time in Salem you will be dropped back at your hotel in Boston.