Explore the ins and outs of Newport with a native Newporter. You will travel back in time to the City’s Colonial beginnings to the Victorian elegance and through the lavish Guilded Age…and beyond.

 

EXPERIENCE:

While there is more to see and experience in Newport than 1.5 -2 hours can possibly provide, our Tours are designed to give a comprehensible overview of “The City By The Sea”. Our goals are to create a historical, scenic, and fun activity that will save precious vacation time so you can decide where to go back to, or not, all that you will see. We will begin historically and chronologically in the Colonial (1720h neighborhood, locally know as the “Point” and officially the first area subdivided for house lots by The Society of Friends. This will be followed by our architecturally beautiful Victorian neighborhood where the art society of New England would summer. Next we will travel through the ever popular Gilded Age, known as the ‘millionaires row’ with their expression of extreme wealth and attempts to ‘one up’ their contemporaries of Society. Then we will take the Ocean Drive to see what put Newport on the map: the ocean and harbor.

 

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Plenty of time to stop for photos and feel the vibes.
Local guides with local knowledge.
Explore places not accessible to the larger tours.

 

 

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