Airline Tickets to San Francisco

San Francisco, a major city in California, is a popular destination for tourists from all over the world. This city is famous for its mild Mediterranean climate, summer fogs, hilly terrain, mix of Victorian and modern architecture and well-recognized landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars and Chinatown.

Originally, San Francisco was a small Spanish fishing village called Yerba Buena (Good Herb). In 1847, when the West Coast region became a part of the US, it was renamed to San Francisco, after the old Franciscan mission located near it. The California Gold Rush in 1848 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, transforming San Francisco into the largest city on the West Coast at the time.

With the California Gold Rush, San Francisco began to grow in population. A lot of immigrants came to the city to seek their fortunes, including a large number of immigrants from China and Japan. They established their own neighborhoods known as Chinatown and Japantown. Nowadays these areas are the largest Asian communities outside Asia.

The devastating earthquake and fire of 1906 changed the landscape of the city and ruined the wooden Victorian homes. Nevertheless, officials immediately set out on a plan to rebuild the city, with new parks, alleys, the current civic center complex, and landmarks such as the Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill. In the 1930's Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge were conceived and built

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Airport Address: San Francisco International Airport, PO Box 8097, San Francisco, California 94128, USA
Distance and Location: The airport is located 22km (14 miles) south of San Francisco
Airport Website: www.flysfo.com
Airport E-mail: None
Airport Telephone: 650 821 5000
Country Code: 1
Time Zone: GMT - 8 (GMT - 7 from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October)
Total Number of Terminals: 4
Moving between Terminals: The 24-hour AirTrain light rail service links the International Terminal with the other terminals, parking garages, the Airport BART station and the car hire centre.