In addition to their daily City Bike Tour, this environmentally-friendly company offers a seasonal 15-mile autumn foliage tour along the Emerald Necklace, a network of parks and green spaces southwest of the city centre.

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The balustrades of the stairs are of burnished, darker-green terra cotta with Shakespearean heads trapped in newel posts of luxuriant, sinuous art nouveau foliage.

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