San Diego: Beautiful Scenery, Balmy Weather and Lots of Fun
By: Fabiola Grosshan
Submitted: 2010-11-11 03:32:35 | Word Count: 385
San Diego is a beautiful city. It boasts one of the world's best natural harbors. It is also a major tourist destination because of the fantastic scenery. The Pacific Ocean, numerous canyons, the unusual shapes of its mesas and its mild, sunny climate make it a charming city to live in. The locals take advantage of all this natural beauty by installing windows that perfectly frame the scenery outside. Good San Diego window treatments create the illusion that you are looking into a living picture.
And you are! San Diego's landscape is indeed picturesque and its residents are wise to utilize window treatments that highlight it.The houses in San Diego are an important part of the charming scenery. There are ornate old Victorian mansions, elegant craftsman-style homes from the 1920s and 30s, and Spanish-influenced bungalows with stucco walls and red tile roofs. San Diego window shutters accent these classic buildings and provide welcome shade. San Diego floor covering comes in many and diverse styles. They can make the homes appear rustic, classic or modern. The combination of these structural elements found in communities like Coronado, Del Mar, La Jolla, Mission Beach, Oceanside and Pacific Beach lend a unique essence to San Diego that few cities can match.
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There is much to do in San Diego. There is the San Diego Wild Animal Park and San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park. The park commemorates California's most significant battle in the in the Mexican-American War, the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846. Balboa Park is one of San Diego's most spectacular landmarks.
It houses the San Diego Museum of Art, the Timken Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Art and the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theatre and Science Center with its planetarium and science exhibits. The best known tenant in Balboa Park is the world famous San Diego Zoo.San Diego has a long history of military activity. Today, the U.S. Navy and Marines maintain huge facilities there. Many service people who train in these facilities are so enamored by the city they eventually make it their permanent home.
