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Subtile by Federico Díaz

Subtile is a public sculpture by Czech artist Federico Díaz, set along the River Walk Trail in West Sacramento, California, across the water from Sacramento. Thousands of small steel disks hang in a cluster that echoes t…

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The Crocker Art Museum

The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, is one of the oldest art museums in the western United States, built around the collection of a local judge and his wife. It pairs a grand 19th-century mansion with a mod…

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The California Museum

The California Museum in Sacramento is a state history museum a few blocks from the Capitol, best known as the home of the California Hall of Fame. It tells the story of California through the people who shaped it, from …

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The Stanford Mansion

The Stanford Mansion is a grand 19th century house at 802 N Street in Sacramento, built in 1856 and best known as the home of Leland Stanford, California's 8th governor and the founder of Stanford University. Today it is…

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State Capitol Park World Peace Rose Garden

The World Peace Rose Garden in Sacramento's Capitol Park plants hundreds of roses around inscriptions written by children, in the grounds of the state capitol. Peak bloom is late spring.

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Sacramento History Museum

The Sacramento History Museum stands at 101 I Street in Old Sacramento, the riverfront district of Sacramento, California. Its brick building is a reproduction of the city's first municipal building, the 1854 City Hall a…

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Delta King Theater

The Delta King is a 285-foot paddlewheel riverboat moored on the Sacramento River waterfront in Old Sacramento, Sacramento. Built in 1927 to carry passengers overnight to San Francisco, she now serves as a hotel with a t…

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Pony Express Statue

The Pony Express Statue stands at 2nd and J Streets in Old Sacramento, California, and marks the western end of the Pony Express, the horseback mail relay that linked Missouri and California in 1860 and 1861. The service…

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