All the details of San Francisco?

San Francisco is located in the northwest of California, at the midpoint of the west coast of the United States, and is the second largest port city on the Pacific coast after Los Angeles. Overlooking San Francisco from the air, the city presents a neat and standardized unique charm: Victorian architecture, square parks and beautiful beaches.

The biggest feature of San Francisco is its worldwide cultural landscape. The unique immigrant culture has formed its diversified social characteristics, and various trends and lifestyles are tolerated and accepted here.

Chinatown

Chinatown in San Francisco is the largest Chinese community outside Asia, with 16 streets and 65,438+10,000 Chinese residents. The best way to visit is to enter the "Popular World" archway at the intersection of Duban Street and Bust Street. First, you will pass the historic St. Mary's Church, and then you will see the Tin Hau Temple Street in the movie The Joy Luck Club. This street is called "painted archway street", and colorful buildings of pink, goose yellow, light green and brick red are matched with each other. Reminiscent of the ancient darling girls throwing hydrangeas and gallant chivalrous men.

Another scenic spot with China characteristics is "Golden Gate Lucky Cake Signing Factory". This shabby storefront without signboard attracts many tourists, because it is made by special people every day, and visitors can witness the process of baking and signing cakes. In fact, the way to sign lucky cakes is very simple: bake the cakes into a circle, then fold them in half, put a charm in them and then close them, which becomes food that brings good luck to many tourists.

Japan city

In addition to China people, the ability of Japanese to "nest" overseas is not weak. In San Francisco, Japan Town is the same as Chinatown.

The "Japanese Town" in San Francisco is small but concentrated, covering an area of 5 mu, with residents12,000, most of whom are "III" or "IV". Today's Japan City is centered on three indoor shopping malls, which was jointly built by the Japanese community and the San Francisco municipal government in 1968. The landmark is Pentecostal Tower, and cherry blossoms are all over the city. Every April, when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, local residents will take the opportunity to hold the "Cherry Blossom Festival", with Taigu performances and various food stalls, which is always a major event in San Francisco.

Nordstrand

North beach is a gathering place of Italian immigrants in San Francisco, located between Russian Mountain and Telegraph Mountain. People who come here will feel a strong Italian exotic color. Countless restaurants, bars and pastry shops make North Beach a paradise for food and nightlife.

As long as the new tourists walk along Columbus Avenue, they will soon see Washington Square and St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral next to it. This magnificent cathedral took 12 years to complete. It is the spiritual center of local Italians and the place where Marilyn Monroe took wedding photos.

Fisherman's wharf

Fisherman's Wharf is the happiest place in San Francisco. It used to be just a port for Italian fishermen to go fishing. The nearby coast is rich in delicious crabs, shrimps, abalones, cuttlefish, sea urchins, salmon, mackerel and cod. Fishermen set up stalls to sell seafood at the dock every day, and now they make fresh crab and shrimp salads for tourists, gradually forming a scene of fisherman's wharf.

Now, in addition to these seafood stalls, museums, shops, galleries, antique shops, restaurants, shopping centers and souvenir shops have crowded this small area and become a wide range of tourist areas. In addition, it is worth visiting the Wax Museum in Jefferson Street, where wax figures are all celebrities, among which movie stars account for the majority. Such as Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Lisa Minnelli and Elvis Presley. At one time, Jackie Chan was made into a statue to attract customers at the door.

Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay is another important symbol of American society and culture. The diameter of the main cable at the bridgehead is 1 m, which consists of 80,000 miles of steel cables, which is long enough to circle the earth three times along the equator! The main cable is responsible for carrying the suspension cables that hang the bridge body. Its two ends are buried in huge reinforced concrete piers on both sides of the river, and each pier needs to be able to withstand 63 million pounds of tension to cope with the strong wind and earthquake shaking in San Francisco Bay.

In the past 50 years, the Golden Gate Bridge has always enjoyed a second-to-none reputation among nearly 600,000 bridges in the United States with its simple lines, bright colors, straight bridge body and perfect integration with the surrounding natural beauty.

Fine arts palace

The number one attraction in San Francisco is the Art Palace, which has a Romanesque dome and a rose-red Corinthian column, and the exquisite relief at the top has become the favorite attraction of San Francisco literati.

The artificial lake in front of the Art Palace is blue. From time to time, several snow-white swans swam by, and their long slender necks drew a beautiful arc on the water. Ducks, ducks and gannets in twos and threes are here noisily foraging and choosing a mate. There are benches and green fields by the water. When you see a couple coming for a picnic, you can enjoy the lake view quietly and sit for half a day.

The Art Palace was originally built for Panama's "Pacific World Expo" 19 15, but it was later abandoned. It was not until 1962 that Maybeck, a famous German architect, was invited to design and rebuild, and today's beautiful scenery was achieved.

Castro district

It is not the most famous street in San Francisco, but its name is a household name in the United States, because it has become a holy place for homosexuals. However, its architectural style is surprisingly standardized and tidy-undulating steep slopes, flying rainbow flags and neat Victorian houses, all of which make it the most moving community in San Francisco and an indispensable San Francisco landscape on postcards.