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Chris Rossetti created Boston Heritage Tours Inc. to promote and preserve the history, heritage and culture of Boston’s unique neighborhoods. Beginning exclusively with the historic North End, future tours will include Beacon Hill, the South End, Chinatown and the Back Bay.

This three-hour guided walking tour is a relaxing and enjoyable way to discover hidden histories of those who once walked these narrow crooked streets and see the North End from a new perspective.

Chris has an extensive knowledge and passion for history and his enthusiasm is evident in the North End. He was recently asked how the Cultural Heritage Tour began:

I created a Heritage Tour in this neighborhood because living in the North End, I also have an affinity to the “Old World Italian Village.”

Last year I completed a four-month study researching my Italian heritage. Using the online services of Ancestry.com and several other genealogical resources including state and national archives along with parish records, and many conversations with family members, I discovered a beautiful story of opportunity, perseverance and family unity.

My great, great grandparents came to this country in 1892 traveling on a steamship with hundreds of other regional Italian immigrants seeking a chance for economic opportunity. They left their home, friends and family, near Naples, in a small village named Caiazzo, in the province of Caserta, in the southern Italian region of Campania.

Antonio Mormile, his wife Maria Del Monaci and their young daughter Vincenzina arrived through Ellis Island, in New York City to begin life in the land of opportunity. Starting with just a few dollars from his native village, Antonio became a master barber, started the first fencing club in New Haven, CT and put two of his nine children through Yale University.

I’m starting the Cultural Heritage Tours in the North End not only because I live here, but growing up in an Italian American home I see three values of the North End that were installed in me as child; family, respect and tradition.