The City Built on Steep Hills --…

It's a thriving and prosperous business center,of course, but San Francisco has more reminders of the past than most American cities-such as the famous cable cars.

Historic and ultra-modern buildings can be found side-by-side,even in the downtown area. Shopping and above all eating out are very popular activities in this sociable and extrovert city.San Francisco is built on a series of very steep hills, which have figured in innumerable movies. Nob Hill, for instance, has been the scene of many hair-raising  car chases. The city was founded int 1776  by Spanish settlers,and still today has many very large immigrant communities, notably Chinese, Hispanic han Japanese.

The is famous for the creativity of its inhabitants, which often expresses itself in unexpected and unconventional ways. San Francisco offers a combination of visual attractiveness, cutural richness and quality of life, which is equalled by few cityies in the world.