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Balboa Park
Balboa Park is an urban cultural
park in San Diego, California, sitting on 1200 marvelous acres, that
was named after the Spanish explorer, Vasco Nunez de Balboa. A great
number of the trees planted here were done by Kate Sessions,
botanist, landscape architect and horticulturalist that is called
the "Mother of Balboa Park". The park was put into reserve in 1835
and is now one of the oldest sites in the nation that was devoted to
public recreational use. There are open vistas, gardens, shops,
natural vegetation, museums, theaters and restaurants plus the
marvelous San Diego Zoo. It was made a National Historic Landmark in
1977, and is managed and taken care of by the city's parks and
recreation department. Most of the attractions located here are by
El Prado, the city long and wide promenade that runs through the
middle of the park. The majority of the buildings here were built in
the Spanish colonial revival style and a remarkable ornamented
eclectic blend of Spanish and Latin American architecture.
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