Welcome to San Francisco
San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern
California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the
Pacific Ocean and
San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western
United States and one of the country’s most
cosmopolitan cities. San Francisco holds a secure place in the
United States’ romantic dream of itself—a cool, elegant, handsome, worldly seaport whose steep streets offer breathtaking views of one of the world’s greatest bays. According to the dream, San Franciscans are sophisticated whose lives hold full measures of such civilized pleasures as music, art, and good food. Their children are to be pitied, for, as the wife of publishing magnate
Nelson Doubleday once said, “They will probably grow up thinking all cities are so wonderful.” To San Franciscans, their city is a magical place, almost an
island, saved by its location and history from the sprawl and monotony that afflicts so much of urban
California.
