About this city
Also known as: Sailing Capital of the World
Newport is an exceptionally elegant, world-famous historic coastal metropolis and sailing capital floating gracefully on Aquidneck Island within Narragansett Bay. Founded meticulously in 1639, the city served as a vital colonial seaport before transforming during the Gilded Age into the absolute international summer capital for America's highest-wealth robber-baron dynasties. Newport is globally unparalleled for housing the nation's most opulent concentration of palatial Italian Renaissance and Beaux-Arts mega-mansions, expertly paired with an active naval defense engineering legacy.
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Practical Tourism Metadata
Suggested stay: 2–4 days
Tour the palatial gold-leaf ballrooms inside the Vanderbilt family's legendary mansion, The Breakers, walk the dramatic cliffs of the scenic 3.5-mile Cliff Walk, and stand inside the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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Bellevue Avenue
Ocean Drive
TSF Newport
Bowen's Wharf
Newport Mansions Preservation Society
