
San
Francisco conjures up images of hippies and flower power,
but nowadays little is left of that 70s nostalgia. San
Francisco came to life with the gold rush, caused by
the finding of gold in the Sierra Nevada's foothills.
In 1936, with the Bay Bridge and in 1937, with the construction
of the Golden Gate
Bridge, the city was connected to the bay area,
an area now known for its numerous high-tech companies.
The city center, on a hilly peninsula, has a unique character with very distinct neighbourhoods, like Chinatown, Japantown, Castro, SoMa and Mission district. San Francisco is also home to a number of great parks, the best known being Golden Gate park and the Presidio park.
The city center, on a hilly peninsula, has a unique character with very distinct neighbourhoods, like Chinatown, Japantown, Castro, SoMa and Mission district. San Francisco is also home to a number of great parks, the best known being Golden Gate park and the Presidio park.
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Some San Francisco Highlights:
| Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco | |
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The Palace of Fine Arts, now home to a science museum, is the only building that remains of the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915.
More about the Palace... |
| Embarcadero Center, San Francisco | |
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The Embarcadero Center is a large mixed-use complex of five buildings built between 1968 and 1983, later expanded with several more buildings. The four central office towers, designed by John C. Portman Jr have a distictive but consistent architectural look. More about the complex... |


