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Review:
Located in San Francisco’s marina district, The Palace of Fine Arts is a strange, magnificent, over-the-top building created in 1915 as an art exhibition space for the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Architect Bernard Maybeck was inspired by some famous Roman and Greek ruins and surrounded his creation with a lagoon, gardens, and walking paths.
The end result was so beautiful and became so popular that, after the exhibition, when other pavilions were demolished, the Palace of Fine Arts was preserved and continues to be used for art exhibitions but also for weddings and lavish parties; this building is a photographers’ dream. The Palace is still standing on its original site and is one of the most recognizable San Francisco icons.
3301 Lyon St, San Francisco, California 94123, Phone: 415-563-6504
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