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Located across the coast, with rolling hills and the famous Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco is one of Northern California's most beautiful cities in the United States and the jewel. The town is packed with tradition, great neighborhoods, parks, beaches, museums, and a whole host of entertainment options. Alcatraz Island and Fisherman's Wharf are some of the most famous destinations, but the sightseeing possibilities here are vast. The Chinatown of San Francisco is North America's biggest of its kind, and without doubt worth visiting.
San Francisco holds a safe place in the romantic vision of the United States itself — a sleek, elegant, majestic, worldly seaport whose steep streets give spectacular views of one of the largest bays in the world. The major tourist draws are the bridges, Coit Tower, the museums, bars, Chinatown, North Beach, Gothic mansions, crooked Lombard Street and the glamorous Fairmont Hotel.
The bridges, Coit Tower, the museums, the restaurants, Chinatown, North Beach, the Victorian mansions, crooked Lombard Street, and the dazzling Fairmont Hotel are tourists major attractions.
Fisherman’s Wharf, however, is the most popular. Families browse the area, watching fishermen prepare the crab catch and mend their nets amid dozens of souvenir shops, street entertainers, restaurants, and bakeries selling one of the city’s specialties, sourdough bread. Getting to Fisherman’s Wharf on the Powell-Hyde Street cable car is a popular route.
San Francisco’s waterfront offers whale-watching excursions, provides a boat tour from the wharf to Alcatraz Island, and is home to Ghirardelli Square, the onetime chocolate factory; the Cannery, built for the California Fruit Canners Association (now Del Monte Corporation) in 1907, and now a marketplace; Pier 39, reconstructed using timbers from old ships to create a New England look, home to shops and eateries and one of the best seal-watching spots on the coast; the Ferry Building, a ferry terminal on the Embarcadero that also houses a food hall and a farmers market; and the Anchorage, which has a mini-amphitheater. Nearby is the Marina District, formerly known as Harbor View, when its natural amphitheater was the scene of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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