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The Bay is spanned by two landmarks, the Golden Gate and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridges, and pierced by four islands - Alcatraz, Angel, Yerba Buena, and Treasure. Its principal attractions are its century-old cable cars ... Fisherman's Wharf with its view restaurants and colorful fishing craft ... Pier 39's village of waterfront attraction ... The Cannery restaurant-retail complex and adjacent Aquatic Park, home of the Maritime Museum, Ghirardelli Square and a flotilla of vintage ships ... Alcatraz, once the site of the toughest maximum security prison ... Chinatown, the largest oriental enclave outside of Asia.
It has been said that all great cities of history have been built on bodies of water - Rome on the Tiber, Paris on the Seine, London on the Thames, New York on the Hudson. If this is a criterion of a city's greatness, surely San Francisco ranks in the first magnitude among cities of the world.

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