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Alcatraz Gardens - San Francisco Travel

A ferry ride from San Francisco, the 22-acre island of Alcatraz features lovely heritage gardens. Now a National Historic Landmark, Alcatraz is the most visited site of the National Park Services Golden Gate National Recreation Area, with 1.3 million annual visitors.

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Rodriguez-Acosta Gardens, Granada

Granada - Rodriguez Acosta Foundation Pool Photo © Alice Joyce

If it’s a bit of paradise you’re after, Granada holds sway in a little-known garden secreted from the throngs that stream through the corridors of the Alhambra. You need only ramble down the road, away from the cacophony of tourist buses unloading at that magnificent monument. Along the narrow, winding streets to the Alhambra Palace Hotel esplanade, follow the marker pointing toward the Rodriguez-Acosta Foundation, its inconspicuous, worn wooded doorway set within a formidable streetside wall.

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