City Guide: Newport

NEWPORT is a postcard beauty.

The city reflects America's finest qualities with its sandy coastline dotted with luxury yachts, cafe-lined waterfront and is colored with flamboyant sparkles of sunsets. Born from beauty, Newport won the nickname "America's First Resort" for its impressive natural environment.

Whether you are nature buff or not, there is plenty of things to do in Newport. Be it a room in cheap hotel in Newport to a lap of luxuries all available at Booked.net. Our listings include maps, photos and secure forms.

Due to its attractive appearance, Newport fast evolved into a popular destination among tourists and the famous. Thus, the Kennedys got married on the Newport's shore and later five-star general Eisenhower took time to visit the Naval War College in the city.

Today tourists pack Newport for its Bellevue Avenue lined with luxury estates, summer homes embraced by ornate facades and historic palaces.

Attractions include;

• Famous Cliff Walk, a beautiful walk to the most stunning vistas in New England

• Fort Adams, a historical building and it also serves as entertaining playground for adults and kids

• Forty Steps, a set of stairs going down to the ocean below

• Museum of Yachting houses a collection of yachts from modern to old times

• Naval War College Museum, a showplace to several historic and military exhibits

Newport also boasts of many 18th century homes, restaurants and shops in its downtown, but if you are tired of cultural density, there is always an opportunity to shift focus to the waterfront. The seaside location of Newport means that you are welcome to enjoy boating around the unknown shores in the area. In fact, Newport profits from being bounded with water serving as the world's greatest sailing city.

As you are in Newport note the city goes beyond its surface face of yachting port towards world-class jazz, blues, folk, classical music, and film festivals held annually. But today's Newport also enjoyed prominence in the earlier years when it had served as trading center in colonial times and in the 19th century as a resort for the wealthy.

Today only colonial-era architecture and luxury villas are reminders of its past days, while the city earned a new symbol epitomizing its modern beauty - pineapple. This was a sign of welcome brought to modern Newport from its commercial past when traders of this fruit put a pineapple outside their warehouses to attract customers.

This tradition also came to numerous hotels in Newport as a sign of their hospitality. If you want the city to greet you with pineapple at your doorstep then you should book with Booked.net.