Coronado in California

23 November 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Hotel del Coronado © Dirk Hansen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Hotel del Coronado © Dirk Hansen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Coronado, also known as Coronado Island, is an affluent resort city located in San Diego County, California, across (and helping to form) San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. Its population is at 23.500. Coronado is Spanish for “the crowned one”, and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City. Coronado lies on geographic combination of an island and a tombolo connected to the mainland called the Silver Strand. In 1969, the San Diego-Coronado Bridge was opened, allowing much faster transit between the cities than bay ferries or driving via State Route 75 along the Silver Strand.   read more…

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