California is one of the popular tourist destinations in United States. The beautiful and exciting cities of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco make every tourist want to keep coming back every year. With natural beauty abounding the coastline, they are a great draw among tourists. Check out some of the fantastic hotels around California which are frequented by tourists all around the year.

BRISAS (LAS) - The fantastic view is the best thing about this great hotel. The restaurant is perfectly set for summer drinks in the afternoon. This beach hotel is a paradise of sorts serving exquisite Mexican cuisine in California. The hotel has beautifully made up interiors and the food is fantastic and fresh too. The hotel offers a breakfast buffet on Saturday mornings, which is a treat for tourist groups. A day can never be complete without a walk on the beach.

Serras Bar & Grill - Serra is a popular restaurant that is famous for the Middle East music that is constantly played here. The food served at Serra has a great international flair, and the interiors has been done up in a real cool way. Tourists should make sure to check out the Turkish ouzo and pita bread the next time they visit California.

Apple Farm - The first thing that strikes tourist attention about this hotel is the fine attention to detail that makes this hotel a very special place. The hotel is a cozy place with the decor never having changed even once. The hotel is a great place for young singles, honeymooners, older travelers and families with young children.

Madrona Manor Restaurant - The restaurant rooms are lovely, especially the terrace where live jazz is played alongside fantastic dinner spreads. The hotel is well designed with beautiful gardens. The common areas are elegantly decorated with dark antiques. The food served is of high quality, delicious, and very beautiful served by the staff. With picturesque hills surrounding the restaurant, it is a great place to relax.

Koi - Koi is a great place to for celebrity citing. The hotel has great sushi served along with other delicacies although food portions are quite small. There’s a warm fireplace, which is constantly taken up by some visitor. The place is generally swarming with media, since quite a number of celebrities coming visiting here.

It should come as no surprise that the Golden State is shot-through with big cities. From San Francisco to Los Angeles to Newport Beach and back up the coast again, there are no shortages of big cities to choose from. To be sure, smaller college towns like Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine also get folded into the Golden State batter. With all of these options, what makes Sacramento the capitol?

Christened by the stalwart Gabriel Moraga, Sacramento was little more than a trading post when John Sutter arrived in 1839 from Switzerland. Within ten years he and his heirs would guide the transformation of the trading post into a military barracks for the U.S. Army and eventually into an incorporated city. Sacramento is the oldest incorporated city in the state, having been invested in 1850. This does not mean it is the oldest, however, as that distinction belongs to Monterey.

After the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the capital of California was moved from Monterey. The first city to be designated the new capitol was San Jose. When the state legislature met there in 1850, it was argued the capitol should be moved further inland to avoid retribution either from Mexico or the Spanish Empire.

Two years earlier, James Marshall famously discovered gold in the American River in Coloma, about 50 miles away from Sacramento. In the years that followed, Sacramento became the inheritor of the California Gold Rush. The city flooded with new residents and economic prosperity. As evidence of Sacramentos growing importance, the Transcontinental Railroad terminated in the city, solidifying it stature as the gateway city to California.

The capitol was moved, finally, to Sacramento in 1854. Taking advantage of the citys tremendous infrastructure and rail access, the Constitutional Convention named Sacramento the permanent capitol of California in 1879. Inspired by the nations capitol, the California State Capitol was not actually completed until 1874, where it stands to this day in tribute to the vision and foresight of John Sutter.

California is rife with major cities, but few get the attention they deserve. International tourist destinations, like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Newport Beach seem to dominate talk of California. The same can be said of quaint college towns like Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine, or alternative lifestyle meccas, like Big Sur and San Francisco again, seldom does the capital of the Golden State get its due.

Named by the Spanish army officer, Gabriel Moraga, Sacramento was little more than a trading post when John Sutter arrived in 1839 from Switzerland. Within ten years he and his heirs would guide the transformation of the trading post into a military barracks for the U.S. Army and eventually into an incorporated city. Sacramento is the oldest incorporated city in the state, having been invested in 1850. This does not mean it is the oldest, however, as that distinction belongs to Monterey.

After the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the capital of California was moved from Monterey. The first city to be designated the new capitol was San Jose. When the state legislature met there in 1850, it was argued the capitol should be moved further inland to avoid retribution either from Mexico or the Spanish Empire.

Two years earlier, in 1848, James Marshall had discovered gold in the American River in Coloma, about 50 miles away from Sacramento. In the years that followed, Sacramento had become the inheritor of the California Gold Rush. The city flooded with new residents and economic prosperity. As evidence of Sacramentos growing importance, the Transcontinental Railroad terminated in the city, solidifying it stature as the gateway city to California.

With brief stints in Vallejo and Benicia, the capitol was moved, finally, to Sacramento in 1854. Taking advantage of the citys tremendous infrastructure and rail access, the Constitutional Convention named Sacramento the permanent capitol of California in 1879. Inspired by the nations capitol, the California State Capitol was not actually completed until 1874, where it stands to this day in tribute to the vision and foresight of John Sutter.