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Hotels in the city of San Diego are often required by tourists who accommodation in the city of San Diego They may want to see the culture, the history, the sports sides, the entertainment events in the city. Some visitors may want to see the beaches and other tourist attractions of the city. Some tourists may want to explore the city to see the tourist attractions. Hotels in the area often attract tourists to the region who want luxury or cheap hotels. Some may want large or small hotels. Some prefer hotel that have good scenic views or good prices.
San Diego County lies just north of the Mexican border—sharing a border with Tijuana—and lies south of Orange County. It is home to miles of beaches, a mild Mediterranean climate and military facilities hosting the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Marine Corps.
The city of San Diego itself has deep canyons separating its mesas, creating small pockets of natural parkland scattered throughout the city. The same canyons give parts of the city a highly segmented feel, creating literal gaps between otherwise proximal neighborhoods and contributing to a low-density, car-centered built environment. Downtown San Diego is located on San Diego Bay. Balboa Park lies on a mesa to the northeast. It is surrounded by several dense urban communities and abruptly ends in Hillcrest to the north. The Coronado and Point Loma peninsulas separate San Diego Bay from the ocean. Ocean Beach is on the west side of Point Loma. Mission Beach and Pacific Beach lie between the ocean and Mission Bay, a man-made aquatic park. La Jolla, an affluent community, lies north of Pacific Beach. Mountains rise to the east of the city, and beyond the mountains are desert areas. Cleveland National Forest is a half-hour drive from downtown San Diego. Numerous farms are found in the valleys northeast and southeast of the city. San Diego County has one of the highest counts of animal and plant species that appear on the endangered species list among counties in the United States.
The
area has long been inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The first European to visit
the region was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo sailing under
the Spanish Flag, (1499 - 1543), who sailed his flagship San Salvador from Navidad,
New Spain. Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire and named the site
San Miguel. In November of 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to
map the California coast. Arriving on his flagship San Diego, Vizcaíno
surveyed the harbor and what are now Mission Bay and Point Loma and named the
area for the Catholic Saint Didacus, a Spaniard more commonly known as San Diego.
On November 12, 1602, the first Christian religious service of record in Alta
California was conducted by Fray Antonio de la Ascensión, a member of Vizcaíno's
expedition, to celebrate the feast day of San Diego.
In 1769, Gaspar de Portolà established the Presidio of San Diego (a military post) overlooking Old Town. Around the same time, Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Franciscan friars under Father Junípero Serra. By 1797, the mission boasted the largest native population in Alta California, with over 1,400 neophytes living in and around the mission proper. After New Spain won its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1823, Mission San Diego de Alcalá's fortunes declined in the 1830s after the decree of secularization was enacted, as was the case with all of the missions under the control of Mexico. In 1847 San Diego was a destination of the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) march of the Mormon Battalion which built the city's first courthouse with brick.
After the Battle of San Pasqual, the end of the Mexican-American War, and the gold rush of 1848, San Diego was designated the seat of the newly-established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city in 1850. In the years before World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World labor union conducted a free speech fight in San Diego, arousing a brutal response (see San Diego Free Speech Fight.)
Significant US Naval presence began in 1907 with the establishment of the Navy Coaling Station, which gave further impetus to the development of the town. San Diego hosted two World's Fairs, the Panama-California Exposition in 1915, and the California Pacific International Exposition in 1935. Many of the Spanish/Baroque-style buildings in the city's Balboa Park were built for these expositions, particularly the one in 1915. Intended to be temporary structures, most remained in continuous use until they progressively fell into disrepair. All were eventually rebuilt using castings of the original facades to faithfully retain the architectural style.
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