San Francisco

San Francisco is nice.
San Francisco is clean.
San Francisco is cosmopolite.
San Francisco is traditional.
San Francisco is important.
San Francisco is historic.

I love San Francisco. I think this is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. Between the Silicon Valley that represents future, and the traditional port, between the Golden Gate Bridge that welcomes every single visitor by its important structure and the Victorian houses that represents the respect of the land within urbanization, San Francisco offers lots of panoramas to spend a great moment.

One of the most iconic places-to-go in this city is the Golden Gate Bridge, which you can cross by car, bicycle, or by foot. It is very long and high. By car, it takes a few minutes to cross (something like 15-20 minutes?), and by foot, you can apreciate the beauty of architecture mixed with the blue sky and a view of the Alcatraz old fort. Crossing it means also be well protected against the omnipresent wind and noise (produced by the lot of cars that crosses the bridge). The instant is simply magic.

The other attraction is the downtown area: chinatown, the port, the cable cars, and Lombard Street. At the moment when you meet with all the locals, you do not feel like you are a tourist, you’re simply somebody else. You’re part of the city, as well as they are too.
Victorian houses would invite you to stay for the rest of your life in this peaceful scenic panorama, and you have to think a long moment to realize that you are not going to be here tomorrow.

And San Francisco have so much more to offer! Everything is up to you!
This is a kind of paradise on Earth. This is San Francisco, the City by the Sea.

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San Francisco, the City by the Sea

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a 2010 estimated population of 805,235. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,243 people/mi² (6,655 people/km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland.

In 1776, the Spanish established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi on the site. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.

Today, San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown. The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco eighteenth place in the world’s top producing cities, ninth in the United States, and fifteenth place in the top twenty Global Financial Centers.