Downtown San Diego
Downtown San Diego is the thriving central business district of San Diego. A heavily gentrified area with plenty of tourist amenities, Downtown serves as a hub of business and entertainment, with plenty of restaurants, shops, and nightlife to take in, as well as a few attractions, including several museums and the home of the San Diego Padres baseball team.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include San Diego Air & Space Museum and Balboa Stadium.
San Diego Air & Space Museum
Museum
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The San Diego Air & Space Museum is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California. It is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.
Balboa Stadium
Stadium
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Balboa Stadium is an outdoor stadium in San Diego, California, adjacent to San Diego High School and Balboa Park. Owned by the City of San Diego, it is leased to San Diego Unified School District.
Medico-Dental Building
Historic building
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The Medico-Dental Building, now known as the Centre City Building, is a historic 14-story high-rise office building in downtown San Diego, California. It was one of San Diego's first skyscrapers; when it opened in 1927 it was the tallest building in the city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Italy and Gaslamp Quarter.
Little Italy
Quarter
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Little Italy is a neighborhood in downtown San Diego, California, that was originally a predominantly Italian and Portuguese fishing neighborhood. It now consists of Italian restaurants, grocery stores, home design stores, art galleries and residential units.
Gaslamp Quarter
Quarter
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The Gaslamp Quarter is a historic neighborhood in downtown San Diego, California. It extends from Broadway to Harbor Drive and from 4th to 6th Avenue. The neighborhood is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places as the Gaslamp Quarter Historic District.
Bankers Hill
Suburb
Bankers Hill is a long-established uptown neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The area acquired the name "Bankers Hill" because of its reputation as a home for the affluent.
Downtown San Diego
- Type: central business district
- Description: city center of San Diego, California, United States
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: San Diego, San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.72056° or 32° 43′ 14″ northLongitude
-117.15444° or 117° 9′ 16″ westOpen location code
8544PRCW+66Wikidata ID
Q3038344
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Satellite Map
Discover Downtown San Diego from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Downtown San Diego” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “加利福尼亞州聖地亞哥市中心”
- Chinese: “圣迭戈下城”
- Chinese: “聖迭戈下城”
- Dutch: “Downtown San Diego”
- Dutch: “Downtown”
- French: “Downtown San Diego”
- German: “Downtown San Diego”
- German: “Downtown”
- Italian: “downtown”
- Japanese: “ダウンタウン”
- Slovenian: “Downtown San Diego”
- Spanish: “Centro de San Diego (California)”
- Spanish: “Centro de San Diego California”
- Spanish: “Centro de San Diego, California”
- Spanish: “Centro de san diego”
- Spanish: “Centro de San Diego”
- Spanish: “Downtown San Diego”
- Turkish: “Downtown San Diego”
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