Coit Tower
Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tower
- Description: observation tower
- Also known as: “Coit Memorial Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pioneer Park and Transamerica Pyramid.
Pioneer Park
Park
Photo: Kyle Harmon, CC BY 2.0.
Pioneer Park is a 4.89-acre park crowning the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. It was established in 1876 in celebration of the United States Centennial.
Transamerica Pyramid
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The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. Transamerica Pyramid is situated 2,800 feet south of Coit Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Telegraph Hill and North Beach.
Telegraph Hill
Neighborhood
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Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". The iconic Coit Tower stands at the apex of Telegraph Hill.
North Beach
Quarter
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North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy.
Chinatown-North Beach
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Chinatown-North Beach in San Francisco combines two adjoining neighbors, both of which are among the city's most popular immigrant neighborhoods. Culturally and aesthetically, they could not be more different yet their streets mesh seamlessly together.
Coit Tower
- Category: observation tower
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Coit Tower from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Coit Tower” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برج ليليان كويت”
- Basque: “Coit dorrea”
- Bulgarian: “Кула Койт”
- Bulgarian: “Кулата Койт”
- Catalan: “Coit Tower”
- Catalan: “Torre Coit”
- Chinese: “科伊特塔”
- Chinese: “電報塔”
- Czech: “Coit Tower”
- Dutch: “Coit Tower”
- Estonian: “Coit Tower”
- Finnish: “Coit Tower”
- French: “Coit Tower”
- German: “Coit Tower”
- German: “Coit Turm”
- Italian: “Coit Tower”
- Japanese: “コイトタワー”
- Korean: “코이트 타워”
- Polish: “Coit Tower”
- Portuguese: “Coit Tower”
- Spanish: “Coit Tower”
- Spanish: “Torre Coit”
- Swedish: “Coit Tower”
- Western Panjabi: “کوئٹ مینار”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Little Italy and Jackson Square.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as San Francisco Fire Department Station 28 and North Beach Station San Francisco Post Office.
San Francisco: Must-Visit Destinations
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