It was in Hartford, the capital, where two famous American writers Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe had lived and written.

Bridgeport is also the fatherland of P.T. Barnum, America's biggest circus director. Until today, the Barnum Festival is still held every June there.

New Haven is the seat of Yale University, one of America's oldest universities, founded in 1701. Within its marvelous campus are located the Peabdy Museum of Natural History and the Yale University Art Gallery.

In the small interior towns and villages along the Long Island Straits, you can feel the heartbeat of New England.

Stratford, home to the American Shakespeare Festival, witnesses every summer selected works of the world's most famous poet being transformed into plays in a theater on the Old Globe.

Guilford is proud to have America's oldest stone house, today known as the Henry Whitfield Museum.

Essex, in the west banks of Connecticut River, is a heavenly anchor to the yachts. Beautiful captain residences are aligned on Main Street

Mystic Seaport is the place where world's fastest clippers were built. The Maritime Museum, with its ships, docks and buildings, represent the whole era of sailing boats of the 1850s. A maritime village of the 19th century has been revived there. The last wooden whale boat, Charles W. Morgan, and other wide ocean vessels are anchored along the quay.

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Stratford, Connecticut