About this city
Also known as: The Elm City
New Haven is a historic, culturally vibrant coastal city located in New Haven County on New Haven Harbor, an inlet of Long Island Sound. Founded in 1638 by English Puritans, it was the first planned city in America, laid out on a grid known as the Nine Square Plan, which centers around the historic New Haven Green. Globally recognized as the home of Yale University, one of the world's most prestigious Ivy League institutions, New Haven is a premier educational, medical, and intellectual capital. The city features a dense, architecturally magnificent urban landscape alongside a world-famous culinary reputation, celebrated specifically as the historic birthplace of American style 'apizza' and the modern hamburger.
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Suggested stay: 2–3 days
Take a student-led walking tour of the stunning Gothic campus of Yale University, view priceless ancient and modern art masterpieces at the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, marvel at rare manuscripts inside the translucent marble Beinecke Library, and feast on legendary charcoal-fired thin-crust pizza at Frank Pepe or Sally's Apizza.
