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USA - CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO : EVERYONE’S FAVORITE CITY  San Francisco is often called "Everybody’s Favorite City", a title earned by its scenic beauty, cultural attractions, diverse communities, and world-class cuisine. Measuring 49 square miles, this very walkable city is dotted with landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz and the largest Chinatown in the United States. A stroll of the City’s streets can lead to Union Square, the Italian-flavored North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf, the Castro, Japantown and the Mission District, with intriguing neighborhoods to explore at every turn. Views of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay are often laced with fog, creating a romantic mood in this most European of American cities. The City has a colorful past, growing from a small village to a major city nearly overnight as a result of the 1849 Gold Rush.
The City is home to world-class theatre, opera, symphony and ballet companies and often boasts premieres of Broadway-bound plays and culture-changing performing arts. San Francisco is one of America’s greatest dining cities. The diverse cultural influences, proximity of the freshest ingredients and competitive creativity of the chefs result in unforgettable dining experiences throughout the City. San Francisco has well over 32,000 hotel rooms on offer, from first-class hotels and ultra-chic boutique hotels to familiar names in lodging and budget friendly inns. San Francisco's principal attractions are the century-old cable cars, America's only mobile National Historic Landmark .... Fisherman's Wharf with its bayview restaurants and resident sea lions .... Alcatraz, once the site of the US's toughest maximum security prison, now a National Park .... Chinatown, the largest Asian enclave outside of Asia .... Golden Gate Park with its Japanese Tea Garden, Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium, outstanding museums and 1,000 wooded acres .... Mission Dolores, founded by the Spanish padres in 1776 .... the pagoda-crowned Japan Center .... the Victorian shopping sector known as Cow Hollow on outer Union Street .... Ocean Beach and Seal Rocks .... Union Square, home of major-league shopping .... North Beach, the Little Italy of the west. Fisherman’s Wharf is probably San Francisco’s most visited destination .... shrimp and crab stalls and seafood restaurants, novelty museums and other family attractions, street vendors and souvenir shops, street artists and art galleries, languorous sea lions and the eccentrics. Singular residents of Fisherman’s Wharf are Pier 39’s sea lions which arrived here shortly after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, drawn by the plentiful herring pantry that is San Francisco Bay. On Pier 39 they took over K-Dock, now officially designated a "Watchable Wildlife" viewing area. From the viewing deck you can comfortably watch the antics of the hundreds of sea lions which have made the dock space their home. San Francisco’s Number One attraction, Pier 39, is at the heart of Fisherman’s Wharf, a two-level open-air festival marketplace filled with potpourri of numerous attractions, 110 shops and restaurants. From here visitors are ferried to Alcatraz , now a National Park, once home to the likes of Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly and Robert "The Birdman" Stroud. Photo courtesy California Travel and Tourism Commission
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