Monterey Travel Guide
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While no longer the county seat nor even its largest city (both honors rest with blue-collar Salinas), Monterey remains the area's best-known and most popular destination. A city of only 32,000, it attracts easily 100 times as many tourists each year. What do they come for? They come for the history, the culture, the food, and the shopping. Downtown … Read Monterey introduction
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Monterey Museum of Art
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This museum is actually located in two different places, not too far from one another and in the oldest neighborhood of Monterey. At its primary location in an old adobe, the museum recently exhibited works in Chinese ceramics and …
Clarion Hotel
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This two-story motel is very convenient and very affordable. The rooms are decorated in warm earth tones, and the property boasts an indoor heated pool, …
Paradiso Trattoria and Oyster Bar
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This casual Mediterranean-styled eatery with a heavenly view of the waterfront has an oyster bar and a main dining room. The bar offers a different variety of oysters each day, and the dining room serves up tasty salads, fresh fish, …
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This place is really nice for people that want to see sea life. It is the departure point for boat trips in the bay to discover the whales, sea lions, dolphins.
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Overview of Monterey Peninsula and the Big Sur Coast
The Monterey Peninsula and the Big Sur coast comprise one of the world's most spectacular shorelines, skirted with cypress trees, rugged shores, and crescent-shaped bays. Monterey reels in visitors with its world-class aquarium and array of outdoor activities. Pacific Grove is so peaceful …
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Famed for its scenic beauty, the Monterey Peninsula is also steeped in history. The town of Monterey was California's first capital, the Carmel Mission headquarters for California's mission system. John Steinbeck's novels immortalized the area in Cannery Row, and Robert Louis Stevenson …
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Your complete directory to Monterey with links to everything you need to plan travel or get information. Located just two and a half hours south of San Francisco, Monterey offers a wealth of sites and activities for visitors. The Monterey "Path of History" provides a chance to tour the …
Overview of Monterey
45 miles S of Santa Cruz; 116 miles S of San Francisco; 335 miles N of Los Angeles Originally settled in 1770, Monterey was one of the West Coast's first European settlements, and the capital of California under the Spanish, Mexican, and American flags. California's constitution was drafted here …
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey hosts some of the biggest names every year at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The festival began in 1958 as an alternative to East Coast Festivals. That year, the festival began with Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan and Billie Holiday. The festival has been …
Overview of Carmel-by-the-Sea
5 miles S of Monterey; 121 miles S of San Francisco; 33 miles N of Big Sur If you visited the town known as Carmel-by-the-Sea years ago, you're likely to be of the school that criticizes its present-day commercialization. Carmel began as an artists' colony that attracted such luminaries as Robinson …
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