Travel through 400 years of history along the Boston Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile red ribbon that winds through Boston's most historic neighborhoods, taking you to 16 sites significant to Boston's founding and the birth of American freedom. Walk along the way, and you will see and visit historic buildings and sites, famous churches and meeting houses, a centuries-old market that is still a lively shopping and entertainment centre, and a park that was once used by British troops and colonial militia.