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Monte Sereno

Monte Sereno is a city in , United States. The population was 3,479 at the 2020 census. The city is located in the foothills of the , about 10 miles southwest of , and is bordered by the town of to the north, east, and south, the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest, and the city of to the northwest.
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  • Type: Village with 3,430 residents
  • Description: city in Santa Clara County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Monte Sereno, CA” and “Monte Sereno, California”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Forbes Mill and John Steinbeck House.

Museum
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a now-defunct flour mill originally built in 1854 located in , which served as the History Museum of Los Gatos after having been saved from destruction in 1982.

House
The at 16250 Greenwood Lane in Monte Sereno, , was the home of author John Steinbeck from 1936 to 1938. The house was built in 1936, in the foothills of the in what was then part of the town of , for Steinbeck and his wife, Carol.

Restaurant
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was a restaurant in that specialized in California cuisine. It was founded in 2002 by chef David Kinch. The Michelin Guide: San Francisco, Bay Area and Wine Country conferred two Michelin stars on the restaurant in 2007, and upgraded it to three stars in 2016.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Gatos and Saratoga.

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is a town of 30,000 people in , near , in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. Downtown has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings.

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is a city in , United States. Located in , in the southern Bay Area, it had a population of 31,051 at the 2020 census.

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is a city in , in the . As of the 2020 census, 's population is 43,959. is home to the , a sprawling open-air retail complex which was involved in a famous Supreme Court case that established the extent of the right to free speech in .

Monte Sereno

Latitude
37.23633° or 37° 14′ 11″ north
Longitude
-121.99246° or 121° 59′ 33″ west
Population
3,430
Elevation
515 feet (157 metres)
Open location code
849W62P5+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150933834
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5374283
Wiki­data ID
Q985343
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Monte Sereno” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مونت سيرينو”
  • Basque: “Monte Sereno”
  • Belarusian: “Монтэ-Серэна”
  • Bulgarian: “Монте Серено”
  • Catalan: “Monte Sereno”
  • Cebuano: “Monte Sereno”
  • Chechen: “Монте-Серено”
  • Chinese: “Monte Sereno”
  • Chinese: “蒙堤聖利諾”
  • Chinese: “蒙特塞雷诺”
  • Croatian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Czech: “Monte Sereno”
  • Danish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Dutch: “Monte Sereno”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونت سيرينو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونتى سيرينو”
  • French: “Monte Sereno”
  • German: “Monte Sereno”
  • Gilaki: “مؤنته سرنؤ”
  • Haitian: “Monte Sereno, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Hungarian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Irish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Italian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Japanese: “モンテ・セレノ”
  • Japanese: “モンテセレノ”
  • Ladin: “Monte Sereno”
  • Malagasy: “Monte Sereno, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Monte Sereno”
  • Mazanderani: “مونته سرنو (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “مونته سرنو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monte Sereno”
  • Newari: “मोन्ते सेरेनो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “मोन्ते सेरेनो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monte Sereno”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monte Sereno”
  • Norwegian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Persian: “مونته سرنو، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مونتهٔ سرنو، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مونته سرنو”
  • Polish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Sereno”
  • Romanian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Russian: “Монте-Серено”
  • Serbian: “Monte Sereno”
  • Serbian: “Monti Sereno”
  • Serbian: “Монти Серено”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monte Sereno, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monte Sereno”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونته سرنو، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sereno (California)”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Swahili: “Monte Sereno, California”
  • Swahili: “Monte Sereno”
  • Swedish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Tagalog: “Monte Sereno, California”
  • Tagalog: “Monte Sereno”
  • Talysh: “Monte Sereno”
  • Tatar: “Монте-Серено”
  • Turkish: “Monte Sereno”
  • Ukrainian: “Монте-Серено”
  • Urdu: “مونٹی سیرینو، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Monte Sereno”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monte Sereno, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Monte Sereno”

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