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Michelin Green Guide San Francisco
Ref: MCH1595
This is an example of the format of the Michelin Green Guides.
Well established authoritative tourist guides these include practical information, detailed mapping combined with colour photographs and illustrations.
Below is the introduction to the guide from the publisher.
San Francisco is the very essence of the modern American West. Located at the heart of the California coast, it’s a dynamic city which persists at the cutting edge of change while refusing to dismiss its colorful past.
First settled by Spanish missionaries and soldiers in the 18C, this thumb of land, surrounded on three sides by water, boomed with the discovery of California gold in the mid-19C. Fortunes made by urban entrepreneurs stayed in the city to give it a grand landscape of hotels and theaters, broad parks and handsome mansions, and a cable car system that conquered the imposing hills. San Francisco became the financial center of the Far West and was considered one of the world’s great cities when, in 1906, it was destroyed by a tremendous earthquake and fire.
Undeterred, resilient citizens rebuilt San Francisco and re-staked their claim to greatness. After the Second World War, the city became a magnet for the counterculture. Young Americans who could venture no further west by land became the North Beach beatniks of the 1950s, the Haight-Ashbury hippies of the late 60s and early 70s, and the gay community that burgeoned in the Castro District in the later 70s. The lasting impact of these groups can best be felt in the cultural life of San Francisco: its visual and performing arts, its music and literature.
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