San Francisco, Panorama - 14

by AM FineArtPrints

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San Francisco, Panorama - 14

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AM FineArtPrints

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Painting - Painting

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San Francisco, Panorama - 14

If you plan a vacation in San Francisco in the middle of summer, know that you will not find the sun like in Los Angeles or San Diego (California). The weather is fickle even during the summer and, against all odds, pack a sweater and a light windbreaker that can also be used for the beach.

San Francisco is located at a latitude roughly corresponding to that of Acireale in Sicily. The Californian city enjoys a mild but not as dry climate as the Mediterranean island. Winters are wet and rainy, summers, all in all, dry although the fog banks that discouraged the Spanish settlement in the past, are a frequent phenomenon even in September, the hottest month ever.

Before the arrival of the first European settlers, the area where San Francisco stands today was inhabited by the Yelamu Indian tribe, scattered throughout the coastal arch of today's California. In 1776 the Dolores mission took over. Shortly thereafter, a fortress was built by the Spanish to guard the entrance to the bay, the Presidium. After the exclusion of Spain from most of its possessions in the New World, the territory was confiscated in 1821 by Mexico. About fifteen years later an English native named William Richardson founded the village of Yerba Buena a short distance from the mission.

In 1846 the United States, victorious of the war with Mexico, won the territory of San Francisco with all of California. The first waves of settlers arrived there in 1848. Among these numerous Chinese in search of fortune. The city developed in a disorderly way and without primary infrastructures such as water and sewage networks. Political corruption, racist violence, cholera epidemics accompanied the chaotic growth of San Francisco as described in the book by writer Herbert Asbury entitled "Barbary Coast".

It was only in 1890 that the first urban plan was launched to give San Francisco the appearance of a city. The disastrous earthquake of 1906 put an end to these ambitions by bringing 90% of the buildings to the ground with the complicity of a huge fire of proportions that followed the earthquake. The city plan was redesigned ex novo and the reconstruction lasted about ten years, sealed by the "Panama-Pacific Exposition" which took place in 1915.

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