The region South Bay is part of the Bay Area. It is congruent with Santa Clara County. Known for its IT and high-tech companies Silicon Valley is for the most part in this region, but also partly on the neighboring one Peninsula.
Cities
- 1 Campbell
- eBay headquarters. - 2 Cupertino - known as the headquarters of Apple
- 3 Gilroy - known as the "Garlic Capital of the World."
- 4 Los Altos
- 5 Los Altos Hills
- 6 Los Gatos - It is home to Netflix and the historic agricultural center of Victorian-era houses and brick buildings, now a major suburb of San Jose.
- 7 Milpitas - SanDisk headquarters
- 8 Mountain View - Google and Symantec headquarters
- 9 Morgan Hill
- 10 Palo Alto - Next to Stanford University are VMware and Hewlett-Packard as well as many startups.
- 11 San Jose - Capital of Santa Clara County and largest city in the region, also known as the "Capital of Silicon Valley." Seat of eBay and Adobe; Location of the great San Jose State University
- 12 San Martin
- 13 Santa Clara - - The oldest city in the region, goes back to a Spanish mission founded in 1777; Center of the Silicon Valley and headquarters of numerous well-known IT companies (e.g. Intel, Nvidia, WhatsApp)
- 14 Saratoga
- 15 Sunnyvale Originally home to many orchards, it is now home to many billion dollar companies such as AMD, Yahoo, Juniper Networks, and other IT companies
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getting there
San José has an international San Jose Airport
(IATA: SJC)which has grown in importance due to its proximity to Silicon Valley. Not far away are the airports of San Francisco (SFO; 45 km from Sunnyvale, 60 km from San José, connected by the Caltrain) and Oakland (OAK; 45 km from Milpitas, 55 km from San José).
Railway lines of the Amtrakthat run through this region are Coast Starlight (Seattle – Portland – Los Angeles, stops in San José) and Capitol Corridor (Sacramento – Oakland – San José, also stops in Santa Clara). The commuter train Caltrain connects San Francisco with San José (stops along the way in Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunny Vale and Santa Clara). In the rush hour, individual trains also continue to San Martin and Gilroy. The drive from San Francisco to Palo Alto takes 45–60 minutes, to San José 1: 05–1½ hours.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View. The ultimate IT museum with a huge exhibition on the history of computers and smaller exhibitions on special topics such as software. Geeks easily spend 4 hours here, family members brought along are likely to run out beforehand, but can refresh themselves in the cafeteria. Free parking in the house car park.Open: Wed-Sun 10 am-5pm, Fri until 9pm; Closed Mon Tue.Price: 17.50; Discounts for schoolchildren and seniors.
