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Golden Gate ridge




 My main reason to visit San Francisco was to see and photograph


 the Golden Gate Bridge. This came true in October 2017.





 The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Gold-


 en Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francis-

 co Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the American city


 of San Francisco, California – the northern tip of the San Francisco

 Peninsula – to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and Cal-


 ifornia State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most


 internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and

 the United States. the most photographed, bridge in the world.”[8] It


 opened in 1937 and was, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge

 main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,280 m).
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