Wine Country Sights

Sights in Wine Country

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    Adobe Barracks

    Downtown Sonoma was once the capital of a rogue nation, and though Sonoma Plaza looks stately with its stone mission revival City Hall (1906–08), it gets plenty lively during balmy summer nights. See where Sonoma settlers surprised Mexican soldiers in 1850 and declared an independent Bear Flag Republic at the Adobe Barracks.

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  2. Mission Solano San Francisco

    Across the street from the Adobe Barracks, adobe Mission Solano San Francisco was founded in 1823 and once included 10,000 acres farmed by 900 conscripted Native Californian workers; the East Spain St wing remains largely intact, with a reconstructed chapel.

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  3. Jack London Historic State Park

    Obey the call of the wild up Hwy 12 at Jack London Historic State Park, where adventure-novelist Jack London brought Sonoma's slash-and-burned hillsides back to life.

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  4. Gundlach-Bundschu

    Down a country road from downtown, Gundlach-Bundschu is a solar-powered castle perched above a reclaimed water lake producing legendary Tempranillo. GunBun.

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