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OLD SACRAMENTO
Northern California Itinerary
Accomodation: hotels with breakfast included
Duration: 8 nights and 9 days.
Period: autumn, from 01/10 to 10/10
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Means of transport: plane, car and bike rental
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Northern California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is an area with very high industrial potential: just think of the presence of Silicon Valley (so called because of the high presence of Silicon). The economy, however, is based heavily on the technology sector and sustainable energy.
Introduction
Tourists will depart from Fiumicino airport, with Iberia company, with stopover in Dallas and will arrive at Sacramento airport, where they will rent a car to get to the hotel, Sterling Hotel, for the check in.
Day 1, Departure and Arrival
- In the morning, tourists will visit the most famous area of the city, the Old Town Sacramento, an area that includes 8 blocks of downtown. What characterizes this neighborhood is the Victorian architecture with large arched entrances, windows that create the atmosphere of the last century.
- In the afternoon, they will visit Eagle Theatre, the reconstruction of the first theater in California built in 1849 and destroyed by a flood. Shows related to the history of old Sacramento are periodically held.
- In the evening, they will visit The California State Railroad Museum where there are locomotives, carriages, objects and images that have made history, where tourists will have an experience aboard an old train with a 45-minute journey along the Sacramento River.
Sacramento is the capital of the state of California.
DAY 2, SACRAMENTO
The California Museum
State Capitol
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
- In the morning, tourists will visit The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, one of the most beautiful and largest cathedrals. The exterior is in Renaissance style, with a large dome, while the interior is in Victorian style with many decorations and paintings.
- In the afternoon, they will visit the State Capitol, a government symbol that represents the capital of each state. Here in Sacramento, the structure is also in neoclassical style, with the color white and a historical past represented by paintings and flags of California.
- In the evening, they will visit The California Museum, which tells the rich history of California through art, culture and exhibitions.
DAY 3, SACRAMENTO
- In the morning, tourists will visit Fisheman's Wharf, the city's historic fishing port area, and from there they will take a ferry to visit Alcatraz, which was a maximum security prison from 1934 to 1963 for some of the country's most notorious criminals, such as Al Capone.
- In the afternoon, tourists will visit Chinatown, one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia. The large, green-decorated entrance will lead tourists to Grant Avenue, one of the neighborhood’s main streets, lined with souvenir shops and restaurants.
- In the evening, tourists will visit Pier 39, which is home to hundreds of sea lions that live in the bay.The area has excellent seafood restaurants and food stalls selling local seafood.
San Francisco is a hilly city located on the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. By car, tourists will arrive in San Francisco and check-in at the hotel, The Line San Francisco hotel.
DAY 4, SAN FRANCISCO
In the Golden Gate Park tourists rent a boat to make a complete tour of the park.
- In the morning tourists will visit the Painted Ladies, they are Victorian style houses, also called the 7 sisters, they are the only houses that survived the fire in the 1906 and Lombard Street famous for its eight extremely narrow hairpin bends.
- In the afternoon they will visit The Golden Gate Park. It is a huge area full of lakes, woods and paths. Of particular interest are the Japanese tea gardens, with ponds, cherries, wooden greenhouses, and the botanical gardens. Here tourists rent a boat to make a complete tour of the park.
- In the evening, they will visit The Golden Gate Bridge with its orange towers is probably one of the most famous bridges in the world. This bridge was built between 1933 and 1937 and connects the city with Marin County.
DAY 5, SAN FRANCISCO
- In the morning, tourists will visit Old Sausalito, the original whale fishing village, with the first houses and streets of Sausalito and which is now a residential area with restaurants and a market. They will then visit The Hill, the most prestigious hill area of Sausalito.
- In the afternoon, they will visit the houseboats, real floating homes customized to your liking. The main reason for admiring these creations was the possibility of living even more in contact with the environment, the ocean and the beautiful bay.
- In the evening, tourists will head to the Municipal Fishing Pier, a pier where they can do fishing and sports activities or simply relax and where they can observe the Bill Dan Balancing Rocks.
Sausalito is a city in Marin County. Tourists will rent a bike to get to Sausalito by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
DAY 6, SAUSALITO
- In the morning tourists will visit the USS Potomac, the Floating White House inhabited by the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- In the afternoon they will visit the Chabot Space and Science Center which includes a science museum, a planetarium and an astronomical observatory. Tourists will participate in an evening event to look at the stars with the telescope.
- In the evening they will visit Lake Merritt is one of the most important and frequented areas of the city. Tourists can rent a boat to sail on Lake Merritt accompanied by classical Italian music!
In the northwest of San Francisco there is Oakland, a city that is among the largest andmost important in the bay. It is well connected to San Francisco, in fact they are only 20 minutes away from each other.
DAY 7, OAKLAND
San Jose is the third largest city in California and the tenth largest in the United States. Visitors will arrive by car and check in at The Row Hotel.
- In the evening, tourists will visit the San Jose Museum of Art is a popular tourist attraction for lovers of contemporary art that includes paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings and much more.
- In the afternoon, they will visit the Heritage Rose Garden. This beautiful garden is home to 3,000 rose plants of many different species.
- In the morning, tourists will visit the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph. The basilica is named after the patron saint of the Catholic Church and was built in 1803, but rebuilt four times due to natural causes.
DAY 8, SAN JOSE
Town Clock
Capitola Beach
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
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- In the morning, tourists will visit the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a long walkway along the beach, actually is an amusement park with roller coasters, historic rides, mini golf, but also food courts and souvenir shops; it is an icon of Santa Cruz.
- In the afternoon, they will visit Capitola Beach, a small town in a style that recalls the city of Venice.
- In the evening, they will visit the Town Clock: the clock tower that stands out for its particular structure with a brick arch base, a colored dome and a flag.