Your Guide to Providence, RI

Rhode Island's capital and largest city anchors the northern half of the Providence-Warwick RI-MA metro. Discover Providence — home to Brown University (1764, the 7th-oldest college in the US), the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence College, Johnson & Wales University, the Rhode Island State House, Federal Hill Italian-American heritage district, WaterFire art installations, the historic Benefit Street and College Hill neighborhoods, plus the Blackstone Valley mill heritage of Pawtucket (birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution at Samuel Slater's 1793 Mill), Woonsocket, and the Bristol County communities of Bristol, Warren, Barrington, and the adjacent Bristol County, MA cities of Fall River, Attleboro, and Taunton.