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| x Golden Gate Bridge |
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern...
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| x Portsmouth Square |
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Portsmouth Square (Chinese: 花園角) is a one-block park in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, that is bounded by Kearny Street on the east, Washington Street on the north, Clay Street on the south, and Walter Lum Place on the west.
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| x Union Square |
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Union Square is a 2.6 acres (11,000 m) plaza bordered by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California. It also refers to the central shopping, hotel, and theater district that surrounds the plaza for several blocks. The name ...
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| x Old Saint Mary's Cathedral |
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The Old Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, commonly shortened to Old Saint Mary's Cathedral, Old Saint Mary's Church or just Old Saint Mary's is a proto-cathedral and parish of the Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco,...
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| x Mission San Francisco de Asís |
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Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga...
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| x Rincon Hill |
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Rincon Hill is one of many hills located in the greater South of Market in San Francisco, located just south of the Financial District. The top of the hill serves as the anchorage and touch-down for the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. Recently...
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| x City of Paris Dry Goods Co. |
The City of Paris Dry Goods Company (later City of Paris) was one of San Francisco's most important department stores from 1850 to 1976, located diagonally opposite Union Square. The store was demolished in 1980 after a lengthy preservation fight to...
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| x Niantic |
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The whaleship Niantic brought fortune-seekers to San Francisco (formerly Yerba Buena) in the California Gold Rush of 1849. Run aground and converted into a storeship and hotel, she was a prominent landmark in the booming city for several years. The...
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| x Telegraph Hill |
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Telegraph Hill (elev 275 ft, 83 m) refers to a small hilly district in San Francisco, California. Its main feature is Coit Tower, which stands atop the hill.
The San Francisco Chronicle defines the Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill areas as...
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| x Treasure Island |
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Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland. It is connected by a small isthmus to Yerba Buena Island. It was created in 1936 & 1937, from fill dredged from the bay, for the Golden Gate...
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| x Conservatory of Flowers |
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The Conservatory of Flowers is a large botanical greenhouse in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, constructed in 1878. It houses an important collection of exotic plants. It is the oldest building in Golden Gate Park and the oldest municipal wooden...
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| x San Francisco Mint |
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The San Francisco Mint is a branch of the United States Mint, and was opened in 1854 to serve the gold mines of the California Gold Rush. It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874. This building, the Old United States...
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| x California Theater |
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| x Mission District |
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The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA, named after the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis. The area occupies land previously divided into ranchos owned...
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McLaren Park is a 317-acre (1.28 km) park in the south-east corner of San Francisco, USA. McLaren Park is the second largest park in San Francisco after Golden Gate Park.
The park is surrounded mostly by the Excelsior, Crocker-Amazon, Visitacion...
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| x Moscone Recreation Center |
Moscone Recreation Center is a park located between Chestnut Street and Bay Street, Laguna Street and Webster Street in San Francisco's Marina District.
Formerly known as Funston Park, the area was renamed in honor of San Francisco mayor George...
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| x Haight Street |
Haight Street, in San Francisco, is perhaps best known as the principal street in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury, aka the Upper Haight district. It stretches from Market Street to Stanyan Street, at Golden Gate Park. It is named after California...
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| x Moscone Center |
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The Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level...
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| x Harding Park Golf Club |
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The Harding Park Golf Club (commonly known as Harding Park) is a municipal golf course owned by the city and county of San Francisco. It sits in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California - west of San Francisco State University and...
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| x Junipero Serra Boulevard |
Junipero Serra Boulevard is a major boulevard in and south of San Francisco. Within the city, it forms part of the route of State Route 1, the shortest connection between Interstate 280 and the Golden Gate Bridge. The remainder, in San Mateo County,...
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Van Ness Avenue (originally known as Marlette Street) is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that cuts through Downtown from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the city. It begins at Market Street near...
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| x Kearny Street |
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Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs from Market Street on the south to The Embarcadero on the north. Along its southern end, the street serves as the border separating the Financial District from the city's Union Square and Chinatown...
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| x The Castro |
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The Castro District, commonly known as The Castro, is a neighborhood within Eureka Valley in San Francisco, California. It is widely considered the world's best known gay neighborhood having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the...
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Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It runs about 16 blocks from the Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown, terminating at Market Street. South of Columbus Avenue,...
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| x James C. Flood Mansion |
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James C. Flood Mansion, also known as Pacific-Union Club, in San Francisco, California, USA, was a townhouse for James C. Flood, a 19th century silver-baron. It was the first brownstone building built west of the Mississippi River. With The Fairmont...
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| x Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove |
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Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove, locally called Stern Grove, is a 33-acre (130,000 m) recreational site in the Sunset District, San Francisco, California. It is administered by the city's Recreation and Parks Department, and is the concert setting...
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| x San Francisco |
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San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the second most densely populated large city in North America and is the financial,...
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| x San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center |
The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (SFWMPAC) is located in San Francisco, California, and is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. It covers three hectares (7.5 acres) in San Francisco's Civic Center...
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| x First United States Branch Mint |
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| x Mission San Diego de Alcalá |
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Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in San Diego, California, was the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California region of New Spain. It was founded in 1769 by Spanish friar Junípero Serra in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay Indians. The mission...
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| x Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo |
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Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, also known as the Carmel Mission, is a Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It is part of the National Registry of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
It was the...
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| x Mission San Antonio de Padua |
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Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded on July 14, 1771, the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra, and site of the first Christian marriage and first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California.
Father...
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| x Mission San Gabriel Arcángel |
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The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Site of the first hospital in Alta California, the settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The...
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| x Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa |
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Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded 1772 on the Central Coast of California on a site located halfway between Santa Barbara and Monterey. It was named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse. The Mission church of San Luis...
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| x Mission San Juan Capistrano |
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Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San...
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| x Mission Santa Clara de Asís |
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Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order of the Poor Clares. Although ruined and rebuilt six times, the settlement was never abandoned.
The first mission to be built to honor...
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| x Mission San Buenaventura |
Mission San Buenaventura was founded on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782 in Las Californias, part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. Named for a Franciscan theologian, Saint Bonaventure, it was the last of the missions founded by Father Serra....
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| x Mission Santa Barbara |
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Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spanish Franciscan mission near present day Santa Barbara, California. It was founded December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, to evangelize the local Chumash (Canaliño) tribe...
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| x Mission La Purísima Concepción |
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La Purisima Mission (with the original Spanish name being La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María) was founded on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin on December 8, 1787. The present and second...
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| x Mission Santa Cruz |
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Skyler Rae Baker:Other missions bearing the name Santa Cruz include the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá
and the Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz in Texas,
along with four separate outposts located throughout the State of Florida.
Mission Santa...
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| x Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad |
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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad was founded on October 9, 1791 to minister and take in the Indians of the Salinas Valley. It was the thirteenth of the Spanish missions founded in California by members of the Franciscan Order.
The remains of...
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| x Mission San José |
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Mission San José was founded on June 11, 1797 on a site located in the "Mission San Jose District" of Fremont, California (formerly an independent town, a spot that the natives called Oroysom or Orisom) in the "Valley of San José." The settlement...
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| x Mission San Juan Bautista |
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Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 in what is now the San Juan Bautista Historic District of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around...
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| x Mission San Miguel Arcángel |
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Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. It is located at 775...
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| x Mission San Fernando Rey de España |
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Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" (September 8), 1797. The settlement is located on the former Encino Rancho in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold...
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| x Mission San Luis Rey de Francia |
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, also known as San Luis Rey Mission Church, was founded on June 13, 1798 in what is now the city of Oceanside, California. In 1816, Mission San Antonio de Pala was established twenty miles (32 km) inland as its...
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| x Mission Santa Inés |
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Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynes) was founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís, who had succeeded Father Fermín Lasuén as President of the California mission chain. The Mission site was chosen as a midway point between...
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| x Mission San Rafael Arcángel |
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Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia ("sub-mission") of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium. The weather was...
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| x Mission San Francisco Solano |
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Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823 and named for a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the "Wonder Worker of the New World." Originally planned as an asistencia ("sub-mission") to Mission San...
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| x Fort Funston |
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Fort Funston is fun for both novice and advanced pilot alike. The prevaling westerlies provide consistent, smooth ridge lift throughout the spring, summer and fall. Usually lift tops out about 300ft above the ridge, but during...
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