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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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- Address: 210 Lincoln Blvd. 2 hours to Half Day. TIME TO SPEND. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Presidio Tunnel Tops is the nation’s newest national park space and reconnects the city to the bay.
- 5.1 miles to city center. Zoos and Aquariums, Free, Parks and Gardens, Recreation. TYPE. Half Day to Full Day. TIME TO SPEND.
- 0.7 miles to city center. Address: 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd. Monuments and Memorials, Sightseeing. TYPE. Less than 1 hour. TIME TO SPEND.
- 6.3 miles to city center. Address: 680 Point Lobos Ave. Museums, Beaches, Free, Hiking, Historic Homes/Mansions, Monuments and Memorials, Sightseeing.
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San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities. Area 46 square miles (120 square km). Pop. (2010) 805,235; San F...
San Francisco holds a secure place in the United States’ romantic dream of itself—a cool, elegant, handsome, worldly seaport whose steep streets offer breathtaking views of one of the world’s greatest bays. According to the dream, San Franciscans are sophisticates whose lives hold full measures of such civilized pleasures as music, art, and good food. Their children are to be pitied, for, as the wife of publishing magnate Nelson Doubleday once said, “They will probably grow up thinking all cities are so wonderful.” To San Franciscans their city is a magical place, almost an island, saved by its location and history from the sprawl and monotony that afflicts so much of urban California.
Since World War II, however, San Francisco has had to face the stark realities of urban life: congestion, air and water pollution, violence and vandalism, and the general decay of the inner city. San Francisco’s makeup has been changing as families, mainly white and middle-class, have moved to its suburbs, leaving the city to a population that, viewed statistically, tends to be older and to have fewer married people. Now more than one of every two San Franciscans is “nonwhite”—in this case African American, East Asian, Filipino, Samoan, Vietnamese, Latin American, or Native American. Their dreams increasingly demand a realization that has little to do with the romantic dream of San Francisco. But both the dreams and the realities are important, for they are interwoven in the fabric of the city that might be called Paradox-by-the-Bay.
- Visit the Palace of Fine Arts. Address. 3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123-1019, USA. Phone +1 415-376-1704. Web Visit website. A shining gem of the city's Marina District, the Palace of Fine Arts was initially built in 1915 to exhibit artworks for the World's Fair.
- Take a Day Trip to Muir Woods. Address. Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA. Phone +1 415-561-2850. Web Visit website. If it's your first time in Northern California, a short day trip to a nearby Redwood grove is a must-have experience.
- Cruise the Bay. Address. Pier 3, Hornblower Landing, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA. Phone +1 415-438-8300. Web Visit website. One of the easiest ways to see the city from every angle is to hop aboard a sightseeing cruise.
- Catch a Game at Oracle Park. Address. 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Phone +1 415-972-2000. Web Visit website. Home of the San Francisco Giants, Oracle Park is a beloved baseball stadium.
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It may measure less than 50 square miles and have a population that doesn’t even crack a million, but San Francisco justly ranks as one of the greatest cities in the world. Famous for grand-dame Victorians, cable cars, a dynamic waterfront, and a soaring golden bridge, this city truly has it all.
