Called affectionately “the Cape”, the peninsula of Cod Cape counts among the most beautiful estival destinations of New England. The only name of Cod Cape evokes a quasi mythical place. Moreover, this strange peninsula in the shape of folded up arm exerts a fascination to which it is difficult to resist.
Geographical overflight
Cape Cod extends on a hundred from kilometers in the Atlantic Ocean. Its width varies between 1,6 km and 32 km, its narrower part, Outer Cape, being bordered in the east by the natural charms of the Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS), an entertaining and natural zone created into 1961 which covers 176 km2. The course is sandy, but shelters some forest corners. Its territory is intersected with several lakes, of ponds of fresh water and salted water marsh.

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Sandwich
The Sandwich Glass Museum presents thousands of coloured parts of glass created at Sandwich between the years 1825 and 1888 per Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. The objects exposed in this museum of world fame are true works of art.

Delicious Hoxie House, older “box with salt” of Cod Cape, marvelously was well preserved. The walls, the vestiges and the guides tell thousand stories on its inhabitants and the life of another time.

Dennis
The Cape Museum of Fine Arts has a large collection of works carried out by local artists or those which were let inspire by the peninsula. The museum underlines the role of Cod Cape in the world of art.

Brewster
Children and adults will appreciate the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History with its original interactive exposures. It tells the history of the formation of Cod Cape as well as its fauna and of its flora.

Eastham
Strong Hill is a natural headland where the in love ones with the excursion and the beautiful landscapes meet. Strong Hill Overlook overhangs Nauset Marsh, Coast Guard Beach and of the adjacent fields. The architectural unicity of Penniman House, built in 1868 by the captain Edward Penniman, draws the attention. To style Second Empire, its ostentation external testifies to a formerly prestigious industry, that of the whale.

Wellfleet
Just after the territorial line which separates Eastham de Wellfleet is Massachusetts Audubon Society Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. This park counts several natural paths which it is possible to explore. Several species of birds can be observed there.

Truro
With man edge stand here and could all of America behind him wrote Henry Thoreau concerning the site of splendid Highland Lighthouse, the oldest headlight of the course, built in 1797.

Provincetown
All at the end of MacMillan Wharf is drawn up fascinating it Expedition Whydah SeaLab and Learning Center. It tells inter alia the forwarding carried out by Barry Clifford which made it possible to put at the day the Whydah vessel, which ran along Marconi Beach in 1717.

Provincetown Museum recalls the broad outline of the history of Provincetown and of Outer Cape using exposures on various sets of themes.

Pilgrim Monument commemorates the arrival of the Fathers pilgrims in the United States. The 77 height m tower is visible of all the city. This monument proves to be the highest American structure which is entirely out of granite.

The accessible ground decorated with bronze sculptures of Provincetown Art Association and Museum will attract you as much as its showrooms. Founded in 1914, the collection does not count today less than 1 600 works carried out by artists having lived one day or the other on Outer Cape.

Legendary the Province Lands, these even which inspired a number of artists and poets, are integral part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The Province Lands are furrowed by several paths and cycle tracks, without forgetting the splendid beaches which border them.

The headlight Wood End Light is connected to the firm ground by a walk (breakwater) of almost 2 km length. On this walk one of most beautiful landscapes of all the peninsula takes shape the, which bathes in the saline perfume and the refreshing breezes.

Chatham
Impossible to circumvent of any visit with Chatham, Fish Pier recalls the visitors that the fishing industry is always quite alive in the city, in spite of its airs cossus. The splendid sand band of South Beach makes it possible to enjoy the beauty of the landscape which opens on the Atlantic.

The Old Atwood Museums House, built in 1752, is one of the oldest residences of Chatham. Its six parts respect the style of the XVIIIe century, with domestic pieces of furniture and tables, tools and objects belonging at that time and to the history of the city.

North Monomoy and South Monomoy, two islands distinct better known under the single name from Monomoy Wildlife Sanctuary, constitute a stop impossible to circumvent for the amateurs of nature. More than 1 000 ha of dunes, marsh and ponds form a refuge and a migratory stop for nearly 300 species of birds.

Woods Hole
It is Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) which allowed the exploration of the wreck of Titanic, with its ALVINE submarine. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Exhibit Center recalls the history of the ALVINE submarine, designed in the years 1950 for underwater research. Vid