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Enjoy a summer night in Boston’s North End

Home to a longstanding Italian community and dozens of restaurants, Boston’s North End draws thousands of travelers daily.

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This video gives you a good glimpse of Boston’s North End, where Paul Revere lived in the late 18th century, where legions of Italian immigrants set up their new lives in the late 19th century and where thousands of tourists head for dinner nightly in scores of Italian restaurants.

Most of the North End’s restaurants are along Hanover Street, along with a handful of historic churches and Mike’s Pastry, famed for its cannolis since 1946. I shot this in July 2015.

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