Palace of Fine Arts
A romantic Roman-style rotunda and colonnade beside a lagoon, built for the 1915 world's fair, close to the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Open
- Grounds always open
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- 3601 Lyon St, San Francisco, CA 94123Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- Bus 28, 30 or 43.
Why Go
Bernard Maybeck designed the palace as a 'ruin' for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, and it was so loved that it was rebuilt in concrete in the 1960s. Swans glide on the lagoon below the rotunda.
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