Cheapest flights to Hartford

The modern capital of Connecticut, Hartford, on the Connecticut River, is also the insurance center of the United States. Its central gold-domed state capitol, sitting on a hill in Bushnell Park, houses a small museum of Connecticut history; free tours of the capitol are available during the week from 9.15am until 1.15pm (July and Aug until 2.15pm; AprilOct Sat 10.15am2.15pm). Marginally more thrilling is the antique merry-go-round in the park, which gives jangling rides for 50. The Museum of Connecticut History, across the road at 231 Capitol Ave, holds Colt rifles and revolvers and the desk at which Abraham Lincoln signed the paper that emancipated all slaves during the Civil War (MonFri 9am-4pm, Sat 10am4pm, Sun noon-4pm; free).

Hartford's pride and joy is the Greek revival Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main St, the nation's oldest continuously operating public art museum, holding some 45,000 pieces, among which are many fine and decorative arts, as well as Old Masters including Rubens' The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt and, in the French Impressionists collection, Renoir's Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil . Lectures and films are put on at the Atheneum Theater, and there's an excellent caf, too (TuesSun 11am5pm; $7, free all day Thurs & before noon Sat).

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