San Francisco

San Francisco is a City in the U.s. State of California and the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is the fourth largest city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose. It is also the only city in California that coincides with a county: officially called they City and County of San Francisco.

The city, which is 805.235 inhabitants, on the peninsula of San Francisco that the Pacific separates the Bay of San Francisco . The San Francisco metropolitan area of which the Centre is made up of the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. With over 7 million inhabitants, it is the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C.-Baltimore are larger.

San Francisco is one of the most popular tourist cities in the world. Characteristic to San Francisco are its steep hills, the fresh summers and the fog. The most famous symbols of the city are the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Chinatown, the Transamerica Pyramid and the cable cars. The gay Castro district also enjoys international fame.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Around 3000 BC, the San Francisco Bay Area inhabited by an Indian tribe, later called the Ohlone . [1]
 * 2 Geography
 * 2.1 Topography
 * 2.2 Climate
 * 2.3 earthquakes
 * 3 demographics
 * 4 Government and politics
 * 5 Culture
 * 5.1 places of interest
 * 5.2 Museums
 * 5.3 Music
 * 6 traffic and transport
 * 7 San Francisco in popular culture
 * 7.1 Tv series in San Francisco
 * 7.2 In San Francisco recorded movies
 * 7.2.1 Films about Alcatraz
 * 7.3 songs about San Francisco
 * 8 universities and colleges
 * 9 notable people
 * 10 town twinning
 * 11 places
 * 12 Trivia
 * 13 external links

On 16 november 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailed along the coast near San Francisco and discovered the Farallonen. Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho stranded In 1575 in Drakes Bay and claimed the land for Spain. He called it Puerto de San Francisco ( Saint Francisport). Later, in 1579, Sir Francis Drake also stranded in the Bay named after him. He claimed the land for England and named it Nova Albion.

José Francisco Ortega, among whom were pioneers, a Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá discovered on november 2, 1769 the Golden Gate. Seven years later, on March 28, 1776 founded another Spanish expedition, led by Juan Bautista de Anza, the Presidio and then in June of the same year the San Francisco de Asís missionary station of.

Early nineteenth century about three km from the presidio the village of Yerba Buena (' good grass '). Then in 1846 the Mexican-American war began, the United Statesnames a part of Alta California in, including Yerba Buena to San Francisco that was renamed.

In 1906 San Francisco was hit by a massive earthquake. There were probably several thousand dead and many buildings were destroyed. The city was then rebuilt quickly and on a large scale.

In the second half of the 20th century San Francisco itself developed into a city with alternative cultures. In the sixties of the 20th century, the city was seen as hippie capital of the world; in particular, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was at the heart of the hippie movement. Councillor Harvey Milk was also in the 1970s, one of the first openly gay city drivers. San Francisco is still seen as a haven for homosexuals of the United States, because it is a relatively gay-tolerant city. ==Geography<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Topography<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco is located on the San Francisco Peninsula on the west coast of the United States. The city is in the State of California, where it is the fourth largest city, calculated by population. In a radius of 50 km around San Francisco is the San Francisco Bay Area, the conurbation around San Francisco (7 million inhabitants) is located. The most important cities of the agglomeration around San Francisco are: Berkeley, Oakland, Palo Alto, San José and Silicon Valley.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the Bay Area are furthermore several nature reserves, including Muir Woods National Monument and Point Reyes National Seashore. ===Climate<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco has a Mediterranean climate. In January the average temperature is 10.6 ° c, in July is that 15.1 ° c. On average annually precipitation is 500,6 mm (measurement data based on the period 1961-1990). San Francisco is often shrouded in a hazy fog. This fog is partly responsible for ensuring that the summers in San Francisco very cool. The fog occurs because in the Interior (Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the like) the temperature in summer high. The warm air that takes off is supplemented by air from the sea-more accurately; from the Pacific Ocean. This air is, of course, much colder. The interaction between cold and warm air provides among other things for fog and precipitation. ===Earthquakes<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Damage after the 1906 earthquakein San Francisco. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city is located on the San Andreas fault, cause of regular (small and large) earthquakes. On april 18, 1906 earthquake founded a heavy major damage in San Francisco.The most widely accepted estimate of the magnitude of this quake is 7.8 on the Richter scale. Other estimates vary between 7.7 and 8.3. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  there were 3000 dead. However, the most damage was caused by the great fire which arose after the quake. One hundred years later, on april 18, 2006, this fact was commemorated.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1989 the city was again hit by a major earthquake (around 60 victims). The chance that such a disaster affects the city again remains large. It can take many years, but a devastating earthquake can strike every day. Many buildings are ' bevingsproof ', but nevertheless, an earthquake still have major consequences. ==Demographics<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Gateway to Chinatown<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the census of 2010 by the San Francisco United States Census Bureau counted 805.235 inhabitants, an increase of 3.7% compared to 2000, when there were 776.733 inhabitants were counted. The population of San Francisco is growing since the 80 's. Before that, between 1950 and 1980, the decennial census established declines were. According to the latest estimates (2012), San Francisco currently has about 826.000 inhabitants.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The ethnic composition of the population was in 2010 as follows: 48.1% white, 33.3% Asian, 6.1% African American, 0.5% Native American, and 0.4% coming from the Pacific Islands. In addition it gave to belong to a different race to 6.6% and 4.7% to belong to two or more races. As a percentage of the whole population there were 15.1% Hispanics and Latinos in San Francisco. Non-Hispanic whites account for 41.9% of the population, giving San Francisco a city is where minorities are in the majority, even though whites still have the largest population group. The largest ethnic minority are Chinese Americans (21.4 percent).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco, that only a small surface area is, has a population density of 6800 persons per km². This makes it the most densely populated large city after New York of the United States.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The city forms the traditional heart of a large conurbation and region, the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Jose-San Francisco-agglomerationOakland has more than 7 million inhabitants, making it the fifth metropolitan region of the US is and the second from California, after Los Angeles. ==Government and politics<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == San Francisco City Hall<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco is a unified city-county since 1856 (consolidated city-county), so the management level of the city and the county has been merged. This is the only place in the entire state of California where this is done. The Mayor is also the county executive, and the Board of Supervisors also functions as a City Council, sitting in the San Francisco City Hall.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The current Mayor of San Francisco is Edwin Lee, a Democrat. Every mayor since 1964 was a Democrat. San Francisco is known as a strong progressive city. ==Culture<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Victorian house in San Francisco<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 1960s the city has itself developed into a universal town where topics such as drugs and sex not be dodged. That can be seen in the work of Armistead Maupin in a daily San Francisco Chronicle from the newspaper ' The section '. The agglomeration is the cradle of movements like Beatnik and the Hippies. The smoking policy in public areas is very strict. In 2005 was even banned smoking in parks.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco ties with Asia are important to the city to be able to understand: the Chinese community is one of the largest of North America; San Francisco has the largest Chinese after New York area of the United States. The city has a sister related to Shanghai and has ties to the Asian culture developed; the Museum of Asian art and Japanese garden are the most interesting of the West. In 1975, a temporary exhibition in San Francisco of Chinese archaeological finds 800,000 visitors in two months.

<p lang="en" len="319" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Every year in the month of may the running event organized Bay to Breakers, an event that attracts many tens of thousands of interested parties. ===Points Of Interest<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === The skyline of San Francisco fromTwin PeaksAlcatraz<p lang="en" len="262" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Built on no less than 43 hills, this city offers numerous attractions:

===Museums<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Palace of Fine Arts<p lang="en" len="84" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">San Francisco has among other things the rich cultural life thanks to its museums.
 * Golden Gate Bridge is a large suspension bridge that the San Francisco peninsula which lies with the North connects. The bridge is high enough to allow large sea vessels to leave the port of San Francisco reach without problems;
 * The Presidio of San Francisco is now a park and was a military site. On site is also Fort Point directly under the Golden Gate Bridge;
 * Twin Peaks, on Mount Davidson after the two highest hills in San Francisco, with a panoramic view over the city;
 * Fisherman's Wharf;
 * Union Square;
 * Alamo Square, known for its Victorian houses that there are;
 * Chinatown. San Francisco is home to the second largest Chinatown of North America. These days, the lavishly decorated district as one of the top attractions of the city;
 * on the Alcatraz Island was once a particular high-security prison where the biggest criminals were locked up and from which no one has escaped, they said. One of the most famous prisoners of the island was Al Capone. Three prisoners escaped, but whether they have managed to reach the Mainland alive is unknown. According to the authorities they are drowned, conclusive evidence for this is however never found. Shortly after this event is the prison closed. The film Escape from Alcatraz is about this event. The island is now a busy museum;
 * San Francisco de Asís-mission, the oldest still existing building of San Francisco;
 * Ferry Building;
 * the San Francisco City Hall with its huge dome;
 * Coit Tower;
 * Transamerica Pyramid;
 * Lombard Street, one of the most crooked ones streets in the world;
 * the sea lions at Pier 39. These animals are on floating pontoons at the pier, depending on the season there are a dozen to a few hundred copies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There is the Exploratorium, a science museum with the theme, which is located in the Palace of Fine Arts, a building from 1915, which was built for an international exhibition.The architectural style is that of an ancient Roman dome.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The California Academy of Sciences is located in the Golden Gate Park. This is a museum and Research Institute with an international reputation, where aquariums, natural history collections and a planetarium can be found.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the civic center, in a building that was put into use in 1966, is the Museum of Asian art. The museum houses approximately 15,000 objects from Asia. Most of the collection comes from the millionaire Avery Brundage, who died in 1975. In 1989 became a Department with Korean art added to the collection. Starting from March 20, 2003, after a thorough renovation under the direction of the Italian architect Gae Aulenti, offers his collection to the museum in a new framework.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Finally, there are other museums, such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -which consists of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="373" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The San Francisco Jazz Festival takes place in the fall since 1982 . ==Traffic and transport<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == A cable car system<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The public transport company SF Muni operates a network of metro and tram lines, complemented by a bus network. The hills in San Francisco are too steep to make it a normal tram to let it ride. Therefore, there are cable cars that are ' grappling ' with cables provided by a slot between the rails under the ground move. In the flat streets drive trams and light rail vehicles, including also ' normal ' trams from the historic PCC-car type on tram line F Market & Wharves line. The city is with the surrounding zones connected by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) lightrailnet.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most famous bridges in the world and connects the peninsula of San Francisco with Marin County across the Golden Gate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In San Mateo County, 21 km south of the city, the San Francisco International Airportairport. The airport is located on a land reclamation in the Bay area, just above sea level. ==San Francisco in popular culture<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Television series in San Francisco<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === San Francisco from the airSan Francisco City HallGolden Gate BridgeThe Victorian architecture in San FranciscoTransamerica PyramidSan Francisco, seen from Twin Peaks<p lang="en" len="51" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Television series that take place in San Francisco: ===In San Francisco recorded movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Movies about Alcatraz<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The prison of Alcatraz, which is located in the Bay of San Francisco has inspired several filmmakers. The most famous films in which the prison are:
 * San Francisco, 1936, by W.S. Van Dyke with Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy
 * The Maltese Falcon, 1941, by John Huston with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre
 * Vertigo, 1958, Alfred Hitchcock's, including the Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Legion of Honormuseum
 * Psycho, 1960, by Alfred Hitchcock with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
 * The Birds, 1963, by Alfred Hitchcock with Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette
 * The Graduate, 1967, by Walt Nichols with Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman
 * Bullitt, 1968, by Peter Yates, with Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn , Jacqueline Bissetand Robert Duvall
 * Dirty Harry, 1971, Don Siegel 's with Clint Eastwood. The sequels also play off in San Francisco
 * The Towering Inferno, 1974, with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman
 * A View to A Kill, 1985, by John Glen with Roger Moore and Christopher Walken
 * Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1986, by Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, with Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and others, 4th feature film from theStar Trekseries
 * The Presidio, 1988, with Meg Ryan and Sean Connery
 * Basic Instinct, 1992, by Paul Verhoeven, with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
 * Sister Act, 1992, Emile Ardolino 's with Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Nunn and Maggie Smith
 * Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993, by Chris Columbus with Robin Williams, Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan
 * Sister Act 2, 1993, by Bill Duke with Whoopi Goldberg, James Coburn and Maggie Smith
 * Copycat, 1995, by Jon Amiel
 * The Net (partly), 1995, by Irvin Winkler with Sandra Bullock
 * The Game, 1997, David Fincher 's with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn
 * Metro, 1998, with Eddie Murphy
 * The Invisible Circus (partly), 2001, by Adam Brooks, with Jordana Brewster, Christopher Eccleston and Cameron Diaz.
 * The Princess Diaries, 2001, by Garry Marshall with Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway
 * Sweet November, 2001, by Pat O'Connor with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron
 * Hulk (partly), 2003, by Ang Lee, with Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott and Nick Nolte.
 * Some Kind Of Monster, 2004, by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo, the documentary shows the heropstaan of the heavy metal band Metallica and before, during and after the recording of their album St. Anger.
 * The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) by Gabriele Muccino with Will Smith.
 * Zodiac (2007) by David Fincher with Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr..
 * Milk (2008) by Gus Van Sant with Sean Penn.
 * The Five-Year Engagement (2012) by Nicholas Stoller with Jason Segel.

===Songs about San Francisco<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Universities and colleges<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Lombard StreetTelegraph Hill with the Coit Tower*Public universities: <p lang="en" len="540" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Note: the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University are also in the agglomeration at San Francisco. ==Famous people<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Town Twinning<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Discover nearby towns<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="436" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The following diagram represents the places in a RADIUS of 16 km around San Francisco. San Francisco Alameda (16 km) Belvedere (13 km) Brisbane (9 km) Broadmoor (8 km) Colma (9 km) Daly City (8 km) Emeryville (16 km) Pacifica (16 km) San Bruno (15 km) Sausalito (12 km) South San Francisco (12 km) Strawberry (16 km) Tiburon (15 km) ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Birdman of Alcatraz, 1962, by John Frankenheimer, with Burt Lancaster is a dramatized story of the life of Robert Stroud, a prisoner also known as "Birdman of Alcatraz", because of his life with birds
 * Point Blank, 1967, by John Boorman, with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson. This was the first movie that was filmed on location after the closure of the prison in 1963.
 * Escape from Alcatraz, 1979, by Don Siegel, with Clint Eastwood based on the escape of 1962
 * Murder In The First, 1995, with Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman tells the story about the torture of a prisoner
 * The Rock, 1996, by Michael Bay, in which the story takes place in San Francisco and took turns on the Island prison of Alcatraz
 * University of California-San Francisco
 * City College of San Francisco
 * San Francisco State University
 * University of California, Hastings College of the Law
 * Private universities:
 * Academy of Art University
 * Alliant International University
 * Art Institute of California-San Francisco
 * Arthur a. Dugoni School of Dentistry
 * California College of the Arts
 * California Institute of Integral Studies
 * DeVry University
 * The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM)
 * Golden Gate University
 * Heald College
 * New College of California
 * San Francisco Art Institute
 * San Francisco Conservatory of Music
 * San Francisco School of Digital filmmaking
 * University of the Pacific
 * University of San Francisco
 * Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
 * Amsterdam (Netherlands)
 * Haifa (Israel)
 * Ho Chi Minh City (Viet Nam)
 * Manila (Philippines)
 * Osaka (Japan)
 * Paris (France)
 * Seoul (South Korea), since 1976
 * Shanghai (China)
 * Sydney (Australia)
 * Taipei (Taiwan)
 * Thessaloniki (Greece)
 * Zurich (Switzerland)
 * San Francisco is the city where the "jeans" was born.
 * The abbreviations Frisco San Fran and are mostly used by tourists and residents of San Francisco can rely on annoyance at. The only local accepted abbreviation for San Francisco is SF.
 * The city of San Francisco you can also encounter at the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas under the name San Fierro.