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Today & this weekend
Portsmouth New HampshireAn Independent City Guide

Itineraries

Routes through the city, not checklists

Each itinerary is written around timing: when the light is right, when the streets are empty, and when the tide is doing something worth watching.

  • Georgian brick façade with white pedimented doorway

    2 days / 1 night

    The Architecture Weekend

    Two days reading four centuries of building

    A deliberately slow route through the city's building history, from timber frame to adaptive reuse, with the waterfront as the connecting thread.

    • First or second visit
    • Walkers
    • History and design readers
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  • Tugboats moored beside brick warehouses at dusk

    2 days / 2 nights

    Forty-Eight Hours

    A first visit, done properly

    A balanced first visit: the square, the water, one interior, one neighbourhood walk and two good dinners.

    • First visit
    • Couples
    • Weekend arrivals
    1. Day one

      Orientation in Market Square · Waterfront parks · Oysters at the counter · South End walk · Dinner downtown

    2. Day two

      Bakery breakfast · One interior · West End lunch · Return to the water

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