Spanish discoverer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered this peninsula as early as 1542. However, the sea was too rough for him to land. So another sixty years went by before Sebastián Vizcaíno was able to name the region after the viceroy of Mexico, the Count of Monte Rey. And it was to be another 150 years [...]
Over seventy sand beaches line San Diego Bay. Today around 1.3 million people live in what once was California’s first mission city. The huge variety of recreational and leisure-time activities guarantees that the city will continue to grow.
West of the city center is the San Diego Zoo (http://www.sandiegozoo.org), one of the most beautiful zoological gardens [...]
Once a desolate, war-ravaged 16.5-acre wasteland in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, this square has become a symbol of the new, reunified Germany. A new urban center has arisen on this, the largest building site in Berlin. The centerpiece is the complex of high-rise buildings designed by today’s star architects for multinational corporations Sony [...]
This 2.2 mile shopping boulevard and its side streets offer a colorful variety that make strolling down it a pleasure: department stores and restaurants, boutiques and cafés, luxury hotels and theatres, fascinating museums and art galleries, luxury goods and junk. Originally a bridle path leading to the hunting lodge of the Kurfürst (Elector) in Grunewald, [...]
