San Francisco, Marin County and Sonoma Valley
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay ?
The map of your stay "San Francisco, Marin County and Sonoma Valley"
Detail of the stay : San Francisco, Marin County and Sonoma Valley
How to get there
San Francisco, Downtown
Steps: San Francisco
Visit the SFMOMA in the SoMa neighborhood. Head north to Union Square. Continue into Chinatown and tour the neighborhood. Climb Nob Hill for the view and Huntington Park Square. Visit Grace Cathedral and enter the luxury hotels. Take the Powell-Mason Street cable car and get off at Green Street. Visit North Beach and spend the evening in the area.
Places of interest : UNION SQUARE GRACE CATHEDRAL SFMOMA
Alcatraz and the heights of San Francisco
Steps: San Francisco
Departing from Pier 33 for Alcatraz. Don't forget to book your tickets one week in advance to leave early in the morning. sit of Alcatraz. From the boat, view on the bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Financial District with the Transamerica Pyramid of San Francisco. Back on the dock, take the Powell-Hyde Street line on the cable car as and get out at Lombard Street. Discovery of Russian Hill. Get out on Union Street in Marina & . Do shopping at Union Street. Go up Fillmore Street to reach Pacific Heights. Visit of Japantown and dinner in the neighbourhood. Spend the rest of the evening in the Tenderloin's bars.
Places of interest : ALCATRAZ TRANSAMERICA PYRAMID GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE LOMBARD STREET
Designers, Hippies and Golden Gate Park
Steps: San Francisco
Discovery of Hayes Valley area with shopping session in the shops of local designers. Alamo Square tour for the panorama on the Financial District with Victorian houses in the foreground. Walk in Lower Haight then in Young Museum or the Japanese Tea Garden. Dine and spend the evening in the neighbourhood.
Places of interest : ALAMO SQUARE - PAINTED LADIES DE YOUNG MUSEUM CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES JAPANESE TEA GARDEN GOLDEN GATE PARK
Geographic, administrative and historical heart of San Francisco
Steps: San Francisco
On Sundays, start the day at Glide Memorial Church's 9 am mass. Otherwise, depart from Civic Center square, the administrative heart of San Francisco. Visit of the Asian Art Museum. Take the line F of the streetcar to reach the San Francisco. Walk through the Castro and lunch. Reach Mission Dolores, historic heart of the city and visit. eak in Dolores Park. Discovery of the District Mission. Dinner in the neighbourhood and evening in local bars.
Places of interest : DOLORES PARK MISSION DOLORES GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ASIAN ART MUSEUM
Marin County
Steps: San Francisco
Rent bikes and ride along the bay in Marina and the Presidio. Cross the Golden Gate Bridge. Lunch in Sausalito. After a break in the city, go to Tiburon. Take the ferry back to San Francisco. Dinner in Russian Hill, on Hyde Street and evening in the bars of Marina.
Places of interest : GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO NATIONAL PARK
East Bay
Steps: San Francisco
Go to Oakland on BART early in the day. Discovery of Old Oakland and Art Deco architecture of the city. Take again the BART and go to Berkeley. Visit the campus and stroll on Telegraph Avenue. Dinner in the Gourmet Ghetto and return to San Francisco late in the evening.
