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Castro District

The Castro District, commonly referred to as the Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in . The Castro was one of the first gay neighborhoods in the United States.
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco, California, USA
  • Also known as: “Castro District, San Francisco”, “Castro District, The Castro”, “Castro Street”, “The Castro”, and “The Castro, San Francisco”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include GLBT Historical Society and Castro Theatre.

Museum
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The maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to LGBTQ history in the United States, with a focus on the LGBTQ communities of and .

Movie theater
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The is a historic movie palace in the Castro District of The venue became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976.

Park
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The is a triangle-shaped mini-park located in the Castro District of San Francisco, California. The park is less than 4,000 square feet and faces with 17th Street to its back.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castro-Noe Valley and Duboce Triangle.

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The colorful Castro is the famous gay center of , a vibrant and historic neighborhood full of businesses geared towards the city's LGBT community.

Neighborhood
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The is a neighborhood of , , located below and between the neighborhoods of the Castro/Eureka Valley, the Mission District, and the Lower Haight.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in central San Francisco, California. It is named for Don José de Jesús Noé, noted 19th-century Californio statesman and ranchero, who owned much of the area and served as mayor.

Castro District

Latitude
37.76086° or 37° 45′ 39″ north
Longitude
-122.43496° or 122° 26′ 6″ west
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
Open location code
849VQH68+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3111994564
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
8410794
Wiki­data ID
Q956169
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Castro District” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Castro”
  • Bulgarian: “Кастро”
  • Catalan: “Castro”
  • Cebuano: “Castro”
  • Chinese: “卡斯楚区”
  • Chinese: “卡斯楚街”
  • Czech: “Castro”
  • Dutch: “Castro”
  • Esperanto: “La Kastro”
  • French: “Le Castro”
  • Galician: “Castro”
  • German: “The Castro”
  • Hebrew: “הקסטרו”
  • Italian: “Castro”
  • Japanese: “カストロ通り”
  • Korean: “캐스트로”
  • Latvian: “Kastro rajons”
  • Polish: “Castro”
  • Portuguese: “Castro”
  • Russian: “Кастро”
  • Serbian: “Кастро”
  • Spanish: “Castro (San Francisco)”
  • Spanish: “Castro”
  • Swedish: “Castro”
  • Turkish: “The Castro, San Francisco”
  • Turkish: “The Castro”
  • Ukrainian: “Кастро”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Castro”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Duboce Triangle and Lower Haight.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Queer Arts Featured and Eureka Valley Playground.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castro District”. Photo: brian kusler, CC BY 2.0.