Cheapest flights to Newport

Thirty miles south of Providence, Newport stands at the southern tip of the largest island in Narragansett Bay, Aquidneck Island. It was established as a colony by William Coddington of Providence in 1639. Due to its excellent harbor, it grew rapidly as a port for the triangle trade and as a privateering center. Religious tolerance led to an influx of Jews, Quakers and Baptists who formed lucrative international trade links, but this great prosperity was severely knocked back by the British occupation of 1779, when half the population fled and much of the town was burned down. Fortunately, enough of its original eighteenth-century homes have survived for Newport to rival Boston in this respect.

. Depression killed off the decadence, but Newport kept going as a naval town until the 1970s. Today the town feeds off tourism; much of it caters to the tennis and yachting set, but there are as many people looking at and envying the wealth as enjoying it. Though sanitized by the new America's Cup Avenue , which replaced the sea-salt rawness of the waterfront with bars and boutiques, the rough old port still rears its head, with beer and R&B clubs as evident as cocktails and cruises, making it an essential stop, especially during the summer festival season.

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