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Spanish Tile
Spanish Tile celebrates Santa Barbara County's missions, adobes, and Spanish Colonial landmarks — centuries-old courtyards, arches, and tilework that bring old California to the screen.
Locations
La Purísima Mission
Location is considered the most completely restored Mission in California. Site contains a church, shops, quarters and a blacksmith shop. Public gardens, courtyard, cemetery.
Santa Barbara Mission
Situated on 15 acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the Mission grounds include the beautiful Mission Church, historic cemetery and mausoleum, a nine-room museum of historical artwork and artifacts, and multiple lush gardens.
Paseo de la Guerra
Casa de la Guerra and its surrounding paseo in downtown Santa Barbara center on an 1820s adobe home built for presidio commandant José de la Guerra, with a historic courtyard, Spanish-style arcades, and tiled walkways.
El Presidio
This is the site of the oldest building in Santa Barbara and the second oldest in California. Visitors can step back and view this historic site surrounded by modern buildings. El Cuartel, the oldest existing building in Santa Barbara, is all that remains of the last of four Royal Presidios (Spanish military outposts) built in Alta California.
Frequency Wines
Frequency Wines is a tasting room in the downtown Santa Barbara offering a relaxed, contemporary setting.
Productions
It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers, 2009)
A romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep as a bakery owner and Alec Baldwin as her ex-husband.
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