Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio of San Francisco initially, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis is a recreation center and previous U.S. Armed force military fortification on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is a piece of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It had been a braced area since September 17, 1776, when New Spain built up it to pick up a solid footing in Alta California and the San Francisco Bay.

It goes to Mexico, which thusly passed it to the United States in 1848. As a major aspect of a 1989 military lessening program under the Base Realignment and Closure BRAC process, Congress voted to end the Presidio's status as a dynamic army base of the U.S. Armed forces. On October 1, 1994, it was exchanged to the National Park Service, finishing 219 years of military utilize and starting its next period of blended business and open utilize.