Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Boston metropolitan area. Situated directly north of the city of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge has also been home to Radcliffe College, once one of the leading colleges for women in the United States before it merged with Harvard. According to the 2010 Census, the city's population was 105,162. As of July 2014, it was the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield and Lowell. Cambridge was one of the two seats of Middlesex County prior to the abolition of county government in 1997; Lowell was the other.

If you have heard about Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), you are likely to hear the word Cambridge next. Not the famous university in Great Britain, but a city falling under the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The two education institutions are the basis of Cambridge City. Their presence has attracted many technological companies to set up wing near the famous Kendall Square. Public art is a distinguishing feature of Cambridge. Tourists are likely to see artworks on the city walls as well as the campus walls. Temporary exhibitions are also held on the banks of the Charles river. Visit Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery which is the first landscaped cemetery in the country. Harvard and MIT have well-developed open spaces accessible to the public. Cambridge is a tourist destination like no other.