Discover San Francisco: The City - Activities and Trip-Guide

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San Francisco is the main financial and cultural center of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the most densely populated city in the state of California and the second in the United States after New York City.

San Francisco (Spanish for St. Francis) was founded on 29 June 1776, when the colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a few kilometers away, a mission in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. The Gold Rush of 1849 led to a rapid growth, San Francisco became the largest city on the West Coast at the time.
Three-quarters of the city was, however, destroyed by the terrible earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fires, but San Francisco was quickly rebuilt and after the Second World War, the confluence of the soldiers returning from war, the massive immigration, the liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the ‘Summer of Love’ and the gay rights movement, making San Francisco the center of liberal activism in the United States.

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Today, San Francisco is ranked 44th of the top tourist destinations in the world and is the 10 most visited city in the United States (2016). The city is renowned for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture and monuments including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Cable Cars (Tram), the former prison of Alcatraz, and its Chinatown. It ‘also one of the most important banking and financial centers.

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