San Francisco, California, is also known as “The City by the Bay’” The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populated city in California and the fourteenth most populous city of the United States, with an estimated population of 744,041 in 2006′ The city is known for its cool summer fog, steep hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, and its peninsular situation’
Landmarks include the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, cable cars, Coit Tower and Chinatown’ Fisherman’s Wharf is also a must for tourists and a favorite for residents’
The city is also famous for the large earthquake on the morning of April 19, 1906 that the lack of gas and lit the fires that have destroyed more than three-quarters, if the city’ Over 200,000 people were left homeless and temporarily settled in tent villages in Golden Gate Park, Presidio, on the beaches or elsewhere’ When it’s time to rebuild the houses destroyed in Nob Hill became grand hotels, the council has increased again and the city is famous in the revival of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition’
The San Andreas and Hayward faults are responsible for major seismic activity, although not directly by the city itself’
San Francisco, the peninsula due to the unique city’ San Francisco, California, is located on the west coast of the United States to the tip of the peninsula of San Francisco’ Includes stretches of the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of San Francisco’ Several islands are also part of the city, including Alcatraz, Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island’ Uninhabited Farallon Islands are also included in the city and 27 miles from the coast of the Pacific Ocean’
San Francisco is famous for the hills, with more than 50 only in the city limits’ Some of these famous hills of Nob Hill, Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, Potrero Hill and Telegraph Hill’ Mount Sutro is the site of Sutro Tower, a large tower of red and white television transmission’ Twin Peaks is a pair of hills resting at one of the highest points of the city and is a popular place for groups’ The highest hill of the city, Mount Davidson, is 925 feet high and is capped at a 103-foot tall cross’
Entire neighborhoods, such as the Marina and Hunters Point and sections of the Embarcadero sit on areas of landfill, the city has already exceeded their natural limits’ Treasure Island was constructed from material dredged from the bay, as well as material resulting from tunneling through the island of Djerba, in the construction of the Bay Bridge’
The historic center of San Francisco is home to the financial district in Union Square, the main shopping district and near the hotel’
Union Square is home to some of the best stores, including Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s’ Nordstrom’s is just off the Market Square’ Fine designers like Christian Dior, Gucci, Kate Spade, Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Ralph Lauren and can be found at Union Square’ Other clothing stores are Banana Republic, Bebe, Diesel USA, Guess?, Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s Flagship Store, Urban Outfitters, Nine West, Cole-Haan, Johnston & Murphy, Loehman and DSW’ Jewelry stores in Union Square include Tiffany & Co’, Bulgari, Cartier, Swatch and Simayof’
The city is a lot of tourism, which offers the charm, and hotels’ Guest rooms in the city La Posada de San Francisco Red Victorian B & B, Chateau Tivoli, Victoria Inn on the Park, the Archbishop of the mansion, Albion House Inn, Bocks B & B, Golden Gate Hotel in Hayes Valley, Jackson Court, villas and more’ Hotels in the region include Nob Hill Motor Inn, Comfort Inn by the Bay, Castle Inn Motel, Heritage Marina Hotel, transportation Inn Hotel and the Hotel Britton Americani’ Luxury hotel suites are widely available at Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Mandarin Oriental, Palace Hotel, Argent Hotel, Hilton, Hotel Vitale, Pan Pacific, Grand Hyatt, Prescott, Sir Francis Drake Galleria Park, the Stanford Court, the Omni Hotel, Hotel Monaco, El Drisco, Griffon Hotel, Hotel Nikko and Huntington, to name a few’
The nightlife in San Francisco, something that pleases everyone with its many bars and clubs including 1751 Social Club, Velvet Lounge, Bruno, Until The End, The Fillmore, Cafe Du Nord, Ashkenaz, City of New Wave, Toronado bottom of the hill, Bimbo 365 Club, Elbo Room, fresh and Ruby Sky’
The beauty of San Francisco is seen in its many parks’ Golden Gate Park, which stretches from downtown to the Pacific Ocean’ The park is planted with thousands of non-native species of trees and plants and is rich in tourist attractions like the Conservatory of Flowers, the Japanese Tea Garden and Strybing Arboretum’ The Presidio and Crissy Field are part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz’ Buena Vista Park is the city’s oldest park, created in 1867′ Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the green’
San Francisco is characterized by a high standard of living’ Property values and household incomes have risen to be among the highest in the nation, allowing the city to support a large restaurant and entertainment infrastructure’
Given San Francisco of the upper class of the economy through restaurants in the city streets’ Some of the city, good food includes Park Chow, Universal Café, Restaurant Gary Danko, The Silver Blue, Luna Park, The Last Supper Club, Restaurant Lulu, and Limón Restaurant Levende Lounge’ Favorite Italian restaurants in the city Pistol Rosa, town, Buca Giovanni, La Rose smelly, Il Fornaio, Macaroni Cafe and others’ The city of spices with things like favorite Mexican restaurants La Cumbre, La Rondalla, Chevy, left at Albuquerque, Cafe Marimba and Taqueria El Toro’ Cafes and the sea are the perfect place to relax for a while, some of which are Union Square Cafe, and Starbucks Coffee Muddy Francisco’
Enjoy the best Asian cuisine in the country, from San Francisco was a Japanese, Thai, Korean and Chinese restaurants’ Some restaurants are better Thai Khan Toke Thai House, Bethelnut and Zao’ Chinese restaurants and R & G Lounge Hong Kong Flower Lounge’ Korean cuisine can be enjoyed at the door or Slanted As Wasabi’s’ Other restaurants include The Golden Dragon, Golden Mountain, Naan and Curry, Maharani Restaurant and Angkor Wat’
San Francisco entertainment appeals to tourists and is open to residents of the city’ The War Memorial and Performing Arts Center features some of the oldest performing arts companies in the U’ S’ The War Memorial Opera House houses the San Francisco Opera Ballet and San Francisco’ The Davies Symphony Hall is home to the San Francisco Symphony’ Herbst Theater in a mix of musical performances and radio public service of the City Arts and Lectures’ The Fillmore is a place of popular music and helped the San Francisco sound with artists like the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane’
American Conservatory Theater regularly stages productions’ The city often hosts Broadway touring productions for a number of sites in the famous district of theaters including classic Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate theaters’
San Francisco celebrates the history and art at the Museum of Modern Art, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the de Young Museum, the Museum of Asian Art’ Called Palace of Fine Arts houses the Exploratorium, a museum dedicated to popular science education through interaction’ California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum and the headquarters of the Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium’ San Francisco Zoo treated about 250 species, of which 39 were considered threatened or endangered’
Tourism is the backbone of the economy of San Francisco’ Its frequent portrayal in music, film and popular culture has made the city and its recognizable monuments in the world’ San Francisco, held the fifth largest number of foreign tourists of any city in the United States, said Pier 39 near Fisherman’s Wharf to be the third most popular tourist attraction in the nation’
San Francisco is the largest banking and financial center of the west coast’ Known as the “Wall Street West,” Montgomery Street is home to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’ The central office of Wells Fargo and the site of the former Pacific Stock Exchange are all prisoners’ Bank America was founded in San Francisco’ San Francisco is a beta world city, with over thirty international financial institutions, six Fortune 500 companies and services, including law, public relations, architecture and graphic design’
Small businesses represent 85 percent of the establishments in the city’ The penetration of large retail chains in the table of the city was slow’ The Small Business Commission supports a publicity campaign to keep a greater share of sales dollars in the local economy in an effort to support small businesses in San Francisco’