Let’s say you’ve just arrived in beautiful Santa Barbara for a week’s vacation. You can’t wait to get to the beach, you’ve been looking forward to sampling some local wines, and you plan to take in a concert or check out the latest exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. You’d just as soon skip the historical sights and get on with the good stuff.
Guess what? You don’t have to go looking for history in Santa Barbara. It’s there every time you turn around.
Santa Barbara’s roots are deep, and their evidence is in the architecture, the street names, the celebrations, the shopping malls, the public parks and monuments—even the food. Pretty soon you’ll be so intrigued by everything around you that you’ll be begging to learn more. Really.