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Greater San Francisco

Many of the settlements encircling San Francisco Bay were
once summer retreats for the city’s residents, but today they
are sprawling suburbs or cities in their own right. Two popular
destinations in the East Bay are Oakland’s museum and
Berkeley’s famous university. The landmark San Francisco–
Oakland Bay Bridge stretches 4.5 miles (7.2 km) and is crossed
by 250,000 vehicles a day – even more than the Golden Gate.
Farther south, San Jose combines the technology of Silicon
Valley with fine museums and Spanish Colonial architecture.
To the north is the rocky coastline of the Marin Headlands,
with its abundant wildlife.

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin at the
p San Jose focus is on understanding the Stanford Museum of Art
workings of computer hard-
* 846,000. k £ 65 Cahill St.
@ 70 Almeden Blvd. n 408 ware and software. a Palo Alto
Almaden Blvd, (800) 726-5673, (408) The Winchester Mystery Stanford University: Tel (650) 723-
295-9600. _ Festival of the Arts House, on the outskirts of town, 2560. Palo Alto Visitor Center: 400
(Sep). ∑ sanjose.org has a remarkable history. Sarah Mitchell Lane. Open 9am–5pm
Winchester, widow and heiress Mon–Sat, (650) 324-3121.
The only other original Spanish of the Winchester Rifle fortune,
Colonial town in California apart was told by a medium that the Among the most pleasant of
from Los Angeles, San Jose was expansion of her farmhouse the Bay Area suburbs, Palo Alto
founded in 1777 by Felipe de would exorcise the spirits of grew up to serve Stanford
Neve and has become the those killed by the rifle. She kept University, one of the most
state’s third-largest city. It is builders working 24 hours a reputed centers of education in
now the commercial and day, 7 days a week, for 38 the US. It was founded in 1891
cultural center years, until her death by the railroad tycoon Leland
of South Bay and in 1922. The result is Stanford in honor of his son,
the civic heart of a bizarre complex of who died at the age of 16.
Silicon Valley. 160 rooms, including The campus covers 8,200 acres
The Mission stairs that lead (3,320 ha) and is larger than
Santa Clara de nowhere and the downtown district of San
Asis, on the windows set into Francisco. Designed in a mixture
campus of the floors. The total cost of Romanesque and Mission
Jesuit University amounted to $5.5 styles, its sandstone buildings
of Santa Clara, is a million. The center are capped by red-tiled roofs.
modern replica of of the computer The Memorial Church is
the adobe original, Organ, Winchester industry, Silicon Valley decorated with gold-leaf and
first built in 1777. Mystery House covers about 100 sq tile mosaic. The Stanford
Relics include bells miles (260 sq km) from Museum of Art holds one
given to the missionaries by the Palo Alto to San Jose. The name of the largest collections of
Spanish monarchy. The large refers to myriad businesses sculptures by Auguste Rodin,
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum rather than a specific location. including the impressive
and Planetarium has an exten- The seeds of the hardware and Gates of Hell.
sive collection of ancient software industries were sown in
Egyptian artifacts. Displays the 1980s at Stanford University,
include mummies, burial tombs, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research s Oakland
and toys, some of which date Center, and in the garages of * 387,000. k v 463 11th St.
to 1500 BC. There are replicas pioneers William Hewlett, David n (510 839-9000). _ Festival at the
of the sarcophagus in which Packard, and later Steve Jobs and Lake (Jun). ∑ visitoakland.org
Tutankhamen was discovered Stephen Wozniak, who invented
in 1922, and the Rosetta Stone. the Apple personal computer. At one time a small, working-
At the heart of San Jose, the class suburb of San Francisco,
fascinating Tech Museum of P Winchester Mystery House Oakland grew into a flourishing
Innovation is crowded with 525 S Winchester Blvd. Tel (408) 247- city when it became the
hands-on exhibits, 2100. Open check for times. West Coast terminus of
encouraging visitors to Closed Dec 25. & 7 gardens only. the transcontinental railroad.
discover how technological = 8 - ∑ winchestermystery Many of the African-Americans
inventions work. Here, the house.com who worked on the railroad
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp710–12 and pp713–15

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