San Francisco has several notable neighborhoods, including Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill. Chinatown is home to the city's Chinese community and expatriate Chinese populations, while North Beach was historically an Italian neighborhood and is still known for its Italian restaurants. Telegraph Hill is home to Coit Tower, a 210-foot art deco tower built in 1933 using funds from a civic bequest and featuring murals by 27 artists.

1. SAN FRANCISCO

2. INTERESTING FACTS
• A Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街, Cantonese jyutping: tong4 jan4 gaai1)
is historically any ethnic enclave of expatriate Chinese, Hong
Kongese, Singaporean, Macanese and Taiwanese
people (outside China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao). Areas known
as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including
the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australasia, Asia.
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San
Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf and Russian Hill.
The neighborhood is San Francisco's Little Italy, and has historically
been home to a large Italian American population
Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial
Tower, is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph
Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California

3. COIT TOWER
• Coit Tower, also known as the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower, is a 210-foot (64 m)
tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The tower, in
the city's Pioneer Park, was built in 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to
beautify the city of San Francisco; at her death in 1929 Coit left one-third of her
estate to the city for civic beautification. The tower was proposed in 1931 as an
appropriate use of Coit's gift. It was added to the National Register of Historic
Places on January 29, 2008.[1]
• The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by
architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard, withfresco murals by 27 different
on-site artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed
after creation off-site. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was
designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle[3] due to Coit's affinity with the San
Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.[4]

4. North Beach
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent
to Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San
Francisco's Little Italy, and has historically been home to a large Italian
American population. It is still home to many Italian restaurants today, though
many other ethnic groups currently live in the neighborhood. It was also the
historic center of the beatnik subculture. Today, North Beach is one of San
Francisco's main nightlife districts as well as a residential neighborhood
populated by a mix of young urban professionals, families and Chinese
immigrants connected to the adjacent Chinatown.

5. ALCATRAZ ISLAND
• Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km)
offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.[2] Often referred to as
"The Rock", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a
military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from
1933 until 1963.[5] Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for
more than 19 months by a group of aboriginal people from San Francisco
who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public
protests through the 1970s. In 1972, Alcatraz became a national recreation
area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.