2009年3月18日星期三

San Francisco

San Francisco is a beautiful city. It is located the northwest of California and is the centre of American west coast. It is the second bigger seaport than Los Angeles. The city has unique glamour. There are many buildings of Victoria style, parks and beautiful seascape.
The Golden Gate Bridge is the important symbol of American social culture. When you see the city of San Francisco, you will think of the Golden Gate Bridge. It is massive and lovely. The famous bridge was completed and opened to pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937. The next day, with a push of a telegraph button in the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt opened the bridge to cars, too. The area known as the Golden Gate is the channel formed where the mouth of the San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning over 1,280 meters to connect San Francisco to the surrounding northern Californian counties. The bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1937 up until 1964.
Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top wine regions in California, and all of the United States, with a history dating back to the nineteenth century. The combination of Mediterranean climate, geography and geology of the valley are conducive to growing quality wine grapes. John Patchett established the valley's first commercial vineyard in 1858. In 1861 Charles Krug established Napa Valley's first commercial winery in St. Helena. Viticulture in Napa suffered several setbacks in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including an outbreak of the vine disease phylloxera, the legal institution of Prohibition, and the Great Depression. The wine industry in Napa Valley recovered, and helped by the results of the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, came to be seen as capable of producing world-class wine. Almost 4.7 million people visit Napa Valley each year, making it the second most popular tourist destination in California.
Chinatown of San Francisco is the biggest Chinaman community except Asia. It includes 16 streets and 100 thousand Chinaman.
San Francisco is a beautiful city. It includes Japanese Town, the North Beach and the Piscatorial Dock. It attracts many people to here.

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