San Francisco Hotels
Hotels in the city of San Francisco are often required by visitors to the city of San Francisco. Some tourists may want to see the culture, the history, the tourist attractions and the entertainment, and sports of the city. Some may want to see the sports sides of the city. Some may want hotels that have good views and good prices. Some may want hotels close to the tourist attractions. Some tourists may want hotels that are near the city, or in the specific parts of the city.
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Neighborhoods in San Francisco
Alamo Square, Alta Plaza, Anza Vista, Balboa Park, Barbary Coast, Bayview-Hunters Point, Bernal Heights, Carville , The Castro, Cathedral Hill, Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District, Chinatown, Civic Center, Clement Street, Cole Valley, Corona Heights, Crocker-Amazon, Diamond Heights, Dogpatch, Duboce Triangle, Eureka Valley, Excelsior District, Fillmore District, Financial District, Fisherman's Wharf, Forest Hill, Glen Park, Haight-Ashbury, Hayes Valley, India Basin, International Settlement , Islais Creek, Jackson Square, Japantown, Lone Mountain, Lower Haight, Lower Pacific Heights, Marina District, Mission Bay, Mission District, Mount Davidson, Nob Hill, Noe Valley, North Beach, Outside Lands, Pacific Heights, Parkmerced, Parkside, Potrero Hill, Presidio Terrace, Richmond District, Russian Hill, Sea Cliff, South Park, South of Market, St. Francis Wood, Sunset District, Telegraph Hill, Tenderloin, Tendernob, Treasure Island, Twin Peaks, Union Square, Visitacion Valley, West Portal, Western Addition, Westwood Highlands, Westwood Park.
Despite its limited geographical space, San Francisco contains a plethora of unique architecture that also serve as tourist attractions in their own right. They include its Civic Center, Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill, the Ferry Building on its waterfront, the world renowned Golden Gate Bridge, the twisty and windy Lombard Street in Russian Hill, "Painted Ladies", terraced victorian houses that can be found city wide, the San Francisco cable car system, the abstract San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, the ruins of the once great Sutro Baths, and the Transamerica Pyramid.
San Francisco, California is a major and diverse international center of culture in terms of arts, music, festivals, museums, architecture and much more. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. This was parodied in the South Park episode "Smug Alert", which criticised various aspects of San Francisco culture, such as the environmentalist movement reaching a quasi-religion status, the perception of the South Park creators that the inhabitants have a disdain for anyone not as progressive as them, the tendency to aspire to a European lifestyle (as evidenced by the high use of public transport, the relatively large proportion of houses to apartments in comparison to other American cities, the café culture, the prominence of wine and cheese stores) etc.
Fort Point is located at the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. This fort was completed just before the American Civil War, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships.
Alcatraz Island, sometimes informally referred to as simply Alcatraz or locally as the Rock, is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963. It became a national recreation area in 1972 and received landmarking designations in 1976 and 1986.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden Gate Bridge had the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it was completed in 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and California. Since its completion, the span length has been surpassed by eight other bridges.
Macondray Lane is a small pedestrian lane south-east of Russian Hill in San Francisco, California. A wooded enclave in the heart of the city, it was recast by Armistead Maupin as Barbary Lane for his Tales of the City.
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay, although the entire group of interconnected bays are often referred to as "San Francisco Bay."
Mount Sutro (elevation: 909 ft. / 277 meters) is a hill in San Francisco, California USA, that was once named Mount Parnassus. It was renamed to honor Adolph Sutro, the 24th mayor of San Francisco. The property is part of the parcel originally granted to the university by Sutro to build a campus that later became UCSF.
The Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay and a shopping center located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. On top of the building is a large clock tower, which can be seen from Market Street, a main thoroughfare of the city. Architecturally, the clock tower was modeled after the 12th century Giralda bell tower in Seville, Spain.
Hotels in the city include or have included ; 345 California Center, Aranda Residence, Clift Hotel, The Fairmont San Francisco, Four Seasons Hotel (San Francisco), Grand Hyatt San Francisco, Hilton San Francisco & Towers, Hotel Union Square, Hotel des Arts, Huntington Hotel (San Francisco), InterContinental Hotel San Francisco, Mark Hopkins Hotel, Millennium Tower (San Francisco), Palace Hotel, San Francisco, The Red Victorian, St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco Marriott, St. Regis Museum Tower, W Hotel San Francisco
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