San Francisco lies (1) _______ the coast of northern California. The earliest Europeans to discover the (2) _______were led by a Spanish explorer (3)_______name was Gaspar de Portola.
He first saw it in 1769. Surprisingly, (4) ______San Francisco Bay is a wonderful natural harbor, it was discovered by land (5) ________than by sea.
In 1849, people (6)________in San Francisco in their thousands (7)________to find gold. However, it was not the men looking for the gold that got rich. The richest people (8)_______their money from owning banks and law firms and they built them selves large houses on one of the hills. This was (9)____________as Nob Hill.
Nowadays, tourists are (10) ________ to San Francisco because there they can see famous places like Chinatown and the Golden Gate Bridge. Many even (11)________ The short boat trip to the island of Alcatraz to see the former prision.