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Burt Bacharach could easily find SAN JOSE today simply by heading south from San Francisco and following the heat and smog. Although one of the fastest-growing cities in California, it is not strong on identity though in area and population it's close to twice the size of San Francisco. Sitting at the southern end of the peninsula, San Jose has in the past 25 years emerged as the civic heart of Silicon Valley, surrounded by miles of faceless high-tech industrial parks where the next generations of computers and websites are designed and crafted. Ironically, it's also acknowledged as the first city in California, though the only sign of this is the eighteenth-century Mission Santa Clara de Asis on the pleasant campus of the Jesuit-run Santa Clara University.
Its most famous landmark is the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, was convinced upon her husband's death that he had been taken by the spirits of men killed with Winchester rifles and believed that unless a room was built for each of the spirits and the sound of hammers never ceased, the same fate would befall her. Work on the mansion went on 24 hours a day for the next thirty years stairs lead nowhere, windows open on to solid brick. The Rosicrucian Museum houses a brilliant collection of Assyrian and Babylonian artifacts, while the revamped Tech Museum of Innovation contains hands-on displays of high-tech engineering. |
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