Berkeley's free-thinking surroundings have seen the birth of excellence attractions, great food from many cultures, and of course the internationally renowned University of California, Berkeley.
The Berkeley scene today combines bits and pieces of street life culture, a more and more Asian campus community. The wealthy, aging Berkeley Hills look down--literally and figuratively--on the "city of Berkeley", the small but vital urban core. For a city of just over 100,000 people--barely a medium-sized city in the California context--Berkeley is extremely complex.
Points of interest
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Berkeley Marina
- Berkeley History Center (1931 Center St.)
- Berkeley Public Library (Shattuck Avenue at Kittridge Street)
- Berkeley Repertory Theatre
- Berkeley Rose Garden
- Cloyne Court Hotel, a member of the Berkeley Student Cooperative
- Hearst Greek Theatre (home of the annual Berkeley Jazz Festival)
- Judah L. Magnes Museum
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Regional Parks Botanic Garden
- Tilden Regional Park
- University of California Botanical Garden
- The Campanile (Sather Tower) in the University of California, Berkeley campus.
- Telegraph Avenue and People's Park, both known as centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
- The Berkeley Free Clinic, a free clinic operating since 1969.
- The Edible Schoolyard is a one acre garden at Martin Luther King Middle School (Berkeley)
Berkeley has a well-deserved reputation for protests, riots, and strikes, and you might see a protest or two in development during your visit.
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