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Photo Diary: Balboa Park, San Diego [1]
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Date: 2025-03-29
In 1868, the city of San Diego set aside 1400 acres of land as a public park, which was christened Balboa Park in 1910. In 1915 the site became the location for the Panama-California Exposition, which celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal. Many of the buildings there today are remainders from the Expo. In both WW1 and WW2 the Navy occupied several of the buildings as barracks and hospitals. After the Second World War the city established museums in several of the buildings.
Today Balboa Park is home to over a dozen museums and almost twenty gardens, and is the most-visited tourist site in the city.
Some photos from a visit.
Landscaping
Lots of open space
Playground
Bea Evenson Fountain
Casa de Balboa. Built as the Commerce and Industries Building for the 1915 Expo.
This busker looks like he could be a music professor
Open-air field archery course
California Tower
The Old Globe. Venue for theater performances.
One of several art museums
Duckies in a fountain
A statue for the kids
One of many gardens
Statue of the Spanish hero El Cid
Comic-Con Museum
The Starlight Bowl amphitheater
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