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Rhode Island · the United States Capital
In the destination Newport and Providence.
In the photo: River and downtown Providence
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Capital of Rhode Island, at the northern tip of Narragansett Bay, founded in 1636. The downtown has early-20th-century commercial buildings and the marble statehouse on the hill. Rivers uncovered in the 1990s form the Riverwalk, the setting for the WaterFire bonfires. Across the river, College Hill houses Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design museum, and Benefit Street, with colonial houses.
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The local experience
The riverside promenade through downtown Providence, with bridges, gondolas and the Waterplace Park amphitheater, where WaterFire takes place: dozens of bonfires lit on the water on selected nights of the year.
The RISD art museum on College Hill: Egyptian mummy, wooden Japanese Buddha, European painting, costumes and a wing of American furniture and silverware.
A College Hill street known as the Mile of History, with colonial and Federal-style houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, John Brown’s mansion, the Athenaeum library, and old churches.
Seat of Rhode Island’s government, from 1904, topped by a huge marble dome with no internal support structure and, at the summit, the statue known as the Independent Man. It houses the 1663 royal charter.
