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With San Francisco we have arrived the final destination of our trip. On the 43 hills of San Francisco live 800,000 people throughout the San Francisco Bay about 6 million. San Francisco became famous through the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf.
We walk once the most famous street in San Francisco; the Lombard Street. With a total of eight switchbacks, the road winds from Russian Hill by Hydrangea flowers down to the Hyde Street. In such a short distance, the Lombard Street is the windiest road in the world - so the myth - and the most photographed on top of that.
At the top of Russian Hill we discover between the rows of houses Alcatraz.
The most typical buildings in San Francisco is a house in Victorian style. The great earthquake of 1906 have survived 16.000 of them. Others who were close to decay have been lovingly restored and are now one of San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge and the cable cars. The great boom of these houses started at 1850. One house cost about 800 dollars at that time. In today's real estate market however they achieve maximum prices and are rarely to have less than one million dollars.
It is not so easy to get around on the streets of San Francisco.
The Pier 39 is the center of Fisherman's Wharf. The Wharf is full of souvenir shops and junk shops and more reminiscent of a fairground. Built of wood on 300 meter length can be found more than 100 shops. The building, so it is said, were built from the wooden planks of the old ships.
Formerly Fisherman's Wharf was just the fish market of San Francisco. Everything that could be caught in the Bay and the ocean, was sold here by local fishermen. Today's Fisherman's Wharf one of the most visited tourist attraction in San Francisco. Especially popular are here shrimp, mussels and crabs.
San Francisco is one of the few places in the world where you can ride a historic national monument. The cable cars of San Francisco are the last still in continuous operation urban street cable car system in the world.
We walk from Fisherman's Wharf to the Golden Gate Bridge, 6 km away. The beautiful walk runs almost along the bay, and we see the Golden Gate before us always.
Two and a half kilometers away from Fisherman's Wharf is Alcatraz, where once the first lighthouse on the Pacific coast was built before there was a prison for notorious criminals such as Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud or Machine Gun Kelly. Today the island is one of the most popular visitor attractions.
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District was originally the World Exhibition in 1915 built for the "Panama-Pacific International Exposition", which Complies the style of Greek and Roman temples. The palace has often been used in movies as a backdrop including The Rock starring Sean Connery, Hitchcock's Vertigo and Time after Time with Malcolm McDowell as H.G.Wells.
The landmark of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, standing at the entrance of the San Francisco Bay and is next to the Statue of Liberty in New York, a symbol of the United States. The suspension bridge has a length of 2.737 meters. For the two main cables, each with a diameter of almost 1 meter, 27.572 individual wires of cable presses were combined into a bundle. Sad statistic: Since the bridge opened in 1937 have taken his own life by jumping from the bridge over 1,600 people.
