San Francisco

Ten Reasons to Visit San Francisco

San Francisco can prove to be a compelling lure when it comes to attracting visitors from around the world. First-class hotels, a compact and walkable downtown, superb restaurants, famous landmarks, world-class arts and cultural attractions, scenic topography, a mild climate and cosmopolitan flair. But you need to take a closer look to really experience San Francisco. Here’s a few diversions to pursue before or after your meeting in San Francisco:

7 festivals not to miss

Uncovering the best spring and summer festivals around the world. The snow is melting and the sun is taking a much longer path across the sky. Most of the country has been cooped up inside for months. People, much like spring bulbs bursting through the soil, are ready to break out and get some much-needed vitamin D.

Top Ten Theater and Dance Venues

World-class theater and dance performances can be found at venues all across the country. Here are our faves.

1. No theater district in America is better known than New York City’s Broadway. The avenue is home to some 40 large professional theaters, with countless smaller stages nearby.

San Francisco Great Neighbourhoods

San Francisco is the city Americans fantasise about, sing about and leave their heart in, a place of myth and magic on a par with Paris and Venice. One of California’s greatest native writers, John Steinbeck, called it “a golden handcuff with the key thrown away”. With a stunning waterfront setting that rivals Rio de Janeiro’s, and just 750,000 inhabitants, it is America’s most livable great city, and its fascinating mosaic of ethnic neighbourhoods is one of its most charming features.

Take a trip to the island prison known as ‘The Rock’ Alcatraz Island

An icon of American criminal culture and history, Alcatraz (‘The Rock’) was perhaps America’s best-known prison from 1934 to 1963, when it housed such notorious criminals as Al Capone, Robert ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly and Robert ‘The Birdman’ Stroud (who looked nothing like Burt Lancaster in the 1962 movie, and was not allowed to keep birds …

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