162. A round through San Francisco - CALIFORNIA!

At one of our first road trip through the USA, I decided to visit the west coast of America, and at this I descended for the first time in one of the destinations that would become one of our destinations for the soul, we say, most beautiful city in the USA and I say a photographers paradise: SAN FRANCISCO!

If you visit San Francisco by car, because San Francisco is actually a peninsula, there are three access points: the first would be coming from Los Angeles south on U.S. Highway 101, the second from the east coming from Sacramento, Oakland highway I -80 Oakland Bay Bridge crossing the bridge and last, coming north on U.S. 101 going all over the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

Near the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge!

                                About the beautiful city of San Francisco can probably write forever, and this in part because life so complex and varied area. When those living outside the United States hear the word USA, they would make mental connection with California, and this largely due to the extraordinary world of Hollywood cinema, and in this universe the Bay Area - San Francisco is undoubtedly can the location where the action took place so many successful films, including some of our favorites such as "The Rock" and "Sweet November" and the list goes on.  

After New York, San Francisco is the city with the densest population of the USA with over 840,000 people on a peninsula of only 49 square miles. I think this explains the interest of so many to live in the area and this in large part because here you can find most everything, ocean, mountains, amazing roads on the Pacific coast, architectural influences from around the world and a very exciting time, make San Francisco and a Mecca for photographers who come here and just waiting for the fog to lift the Golden Gate Bridge photo or architectural complex's Fine Arts Palace.

You'll try to present some of the many points of interest in the San Francisco, points of interest that were special to new destinations each time I was in the area.

Undoubtedly one of the areas that we have found new and interesting is "The crooked, winding street in the world", effectively forming a serpentine street one-way, from top to bottom that descends on the Russian Hill among Victorian buildings where an apartment is sold in numbers with many zeros.

Sure, San Francisco deserves a more in-depth approach, probably a few posts but I hope we can grasp in a single post, even if longer as many details about the tourist here, and for that we thank you again for now for your patience. Initially all our materials travel in the area I could get a photo-video montage of "only" an hour, and so we felt we should not overuse your patience and we split everything into 4 small peccary editing you can watch separately.

                           Hoping that you have the patience to discover it through our beautiful tourist destination is San Francisco will start by one of the emblems of the city: Bridge Oakland Bay Bridge.

In 1936 the eastern and western communities of Bay Area area have reached an agreement Deciding how much until then to build a bridge to facilitate access across the bay in two major cities in the San Francisco and Oakland. Residents of two towns in development they wanted a much faster access to one another, until the only means of communication that is the water. Of course a bridge project has encountered many obstacles and controversy both from owners of vessels as well as political because construction costs were high and the bridge seemed impossible.

A. Our adventure begins in San Francisco here:

Oakland Bay Bridge from Valy Cofaru on Vimeo .

In the conception of many, including politicians and engineers, building a bridge so long in the area was impossible, not because of earthquakes in the area and especially in the area due to high winds. After much debate and political disputes in 1870, in 1936 the building was made ​​longer, 8.4 miles - 13.5 kilometers and most expensive bridge in time, 77 million dollars.

Oakland Bay Bridge is a bridge eight miles long by half - is one of the major links between the two major cities in America: San Francisco and Oakland, and it seems it's the longest steel bridge in the world, which is also in turn or film star is the protagonist of several successful films like "The Thin Man", "Born to Kill", "Vertigo", "The End of the World," "George of the Jungle", "Made in America "," Basic Instinct "," Sudden Impact "," Sister Act 1 and 2 "," The Incredible Hulk "and more.

San Francisco is the fourth largest city in California and the fourteenth in America with a population of 846,000 inhabitants in 2009, the name of San Francisco in Spanish meaning Saint Francis. They like all the big cities of USA, and San Francisco has a very diverse population: about 7% Hispanic, largely due to past Spanish area and the proximity to the border with Mexico, Asians about 31 %, because San Francisco is one of the large gates from the East, otherwise here can meet almost all nationalities of the world, including the Romanian community in the area is quite significant.

Two. Of course he could not without a cruise, even if it is the most feared prison of America: Alcatraz

Alcatraz Cruise from Valy Cofaru on Vimeo .

Perhaps most emblematic point of San Francisco is famous Golde Gate Bridge. Built between 1933-1937 with a budget of 35 million dollars, Gloden Gate Bridge was a victory for engineering the rebound and was until 1964 the longest suspension bridge when the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was built in New York City .

Today, after the public this article we celebrate 73 years of success, in fact expected and estimated population, in spite of so many protests from owners of boats, only the first day of operation - 27 May 1937 the bridge was crossed more than 200,000 people, so people who wanted to celebrate the appearance of horses easier access between Sausolito and San Francisco.

I love that every time I come in contact with our memories here to remember and also try to realize the greatness of such a project and therefore the risk that become tedious to mention here some of these features, I think very impressive opening of 1280 m, a total length of 2737 meters, at the time of the first building huge over 150 meters above the water, during its construction were 14 fatal accidents at work has the highest stakes - 227 m, thickness of the pillars supporting cable is 92 cm, the entire bridge weighs 887,000 tons and I think the most interesting fact which I would say that the American dream and illustrates the power of human will, all this bridge, impressive work was made ​​during the Great Depression Economics, when unemployment was very high in USA and is made ​​entirely of 35 000 dollars money came from donations ONLY!

3.Golden Gate Bridge:

Golden Gate Bridge from Valy Cofaru on Vimeo .

After the famous pillars of Golden Gate's reddish, we believe the most representative working for San Francisco's Cable Car. Unique in the world's Cable Car is exactly what the name says, a wagon train pulled cable powered by an underground cable that crosses much of the city, the cable is in constant motion and that when you want the car to move it to actually catch some clips of it, leaving it towed to the next destination where to stop, actually detach from the cable clamps is in constant motion.

If you saw the movie "The Rock" - with our favorite: Sean Connery, undoubtedly remember when he is reunited by his daughter many years between Fine Arts Palace ruins site. Another iconic building is the San Francisco Fine Arts The Palace, the building was built The Panama Pacific Exposition at an event held in 1915 with a completion ceremony of the Panama Canal and the reconstruction of San Francisco after destruction by earthquake in 1906.

So much for this great city that we hope to go down again this year or who will come.

Four. Evening Walk:

The Fishermans Wharf from Valy Cofaru on Vimeo .

Hoping that what you see here you liked expect your thoughts and questions.

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