By DK Publishing

DK Eyewitness trip consultant: San Francisco & Northern California is your in-depth advisor to some of the best of San Francisco and its surrounding sector. event the best sights the sector has to supply, from walking around the Golden Gate Bridge to sunning with sea lions on Pier 39 to gaining knowledge of the city's preferred neighborhoods on jogging excursions. Plus, try out the easiest of Northern California with prompt highlights for Mocino, Napa Valley wine kingdom, nationwide parks, and more.

Discover DK Eyewitness trip consultant: San Francisco & Northern California:

• Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" vacation spot highlights at a look.
   • Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of significant points of interest.
   • Floor plans and guided customer info for significant museums.
   • Free, colour pull-out map (print version) marked with attractions, a particular sight and highway index, public transit map, sensible info on getting round, and a distance chart for measuring jogging distances .
   • Guided strolling excursions, neighborhood drink and eating specialties to aim, activities, and areas to devour, drink, and store through sector.
   • Area maps marked with attractions and eating places .
   • Detailed urban maps contain highway finder index for simple navigation.
   • Insights into heritage and tradition that can assist you comprehend the tales at the back of the points of interest.
   • Suggested day-trips and itineraries to discover past town.
   • Hotel and eating place listings spotlight DK selection exact thoughts.

With enormous quantities of full-color photos, hand-drawn illustrations, and customized maps that remove darkness from each web page, DK Eyewitness go back and forth consultant: San Francisco & Northern California really exhibits you this zone as nobody else can.

Recommend: For a pocket guidebook to San Francisco, try out DK Eyewitness go back and forth advisor: most sensible 10 San Francisco, that's filled with dozens of best 10 lists, making sure you are making the main of some time and event the simplest of every little thing.

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The Russians The first trappers and fur traders from Russia visited the bay during the early 1800s. Russian 43 Sign outside a Russian shop in the Richmond District Hill is named after a party of Siberian sailors thought to be buried there. Russians established a successful though short-lived colony at Fort Ross (see pp190–91) 100 miles (160 km) north of the city, and many still live in San Francisco. Since 1921, five editions a week of the Russian Times have been published for the 25,000 Russians now concentrated in the Richmond District around the Orthodox Holy Virgin Cathedral (see p63).

The Flood Mansion’s stone frame survived the quake; it can be seen today as the Pacific-Union Club. The Fairmont Hotel burned, but was rebuilt inside the original façade. Cups and saucers fused by the heat of the fire are among artifacts on display at the Oakland Museum (pp168–9). The Destruction Traveling at 7,000 mph (11,265 km), the earthquake overwhelmed the city center. Flames erupted from burst gas mains and, in three days, destroyed 28,000 buildings: prime city property valued at $400 million.

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