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Digital Cultural Heritage Tours Launched
By Marlena Krcelich
January/February 2020
 San Diego is and has always been a city full of diverse people from different places, cultures, and walks of life. From the indigenous Kumeyaay, to the Spanish Mission era, Mexican Pueblo, and American city, San Diego abounds with a rich past that reflects the inclusivity and distinctiveness still present today.
As an organization that preserves, protects, and interprets our county's architectural and cultural heritage, SOHO presents San Diego Cultural Heritage Tours, a new digital series. Each tour will feature a San Diego neighborhood, and use the built environment to highlight the important inhabitants and cultural backgrounds of each place. While taking these tours, you'll discover that the walls of buildings not only speak to an architectural style of a certain culture and time period, but also embody stories that combine dozens of unique and diverse persons who lived within them.
Old Town San Diego, the first tour in our series, showcases the multicultural history of our oldest neighborhood. This walking tour will guide you through San Diego's historic areas by highlighting the earliest development of people, businesses, schools, and more. You'll encounter tales of brave women, dedicated businessmen, multi-cultural families and the architecture they occupied every day. Begin your tour HERE.
We hope these tours will remind you of the famed stories of San Diego's past, and enlighten you about some of our hidden cultural gems. Stayed tuned for future releases of tours of neighborhoods you want to know more about, or have always been excited to explore.
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