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Directions to the 'Spanish Village'. The Spanish Village in on Village Place, just off Park Blvd., in central Balboa Park, just north-east of downtown San Diego by about a mile. Map of 3400 Park Blvd San Diego, CA 92103-5209, US NOTE: the above link to a MapQuest map will show you a star of where you are, but it's above our real destination by a dash. We meet in the middle of the park (green area), so scroll down and find 'Village Place', that where it is. Here is Google's map. The satellite function will show you the buildings in reality if you click on that part: http://maps.google.com There is usually plenty of free parking in the front parking lots off either corners of Park and Village Place and on Village Place proper. The 'Spanish Village' is a collection of small artist shops that photographers love to photograph at due to it's rich colored old buildings and flooring. It's sandwiched in between the Rueben H. Fleet Space Theatre and the Natural History Museum on the left and the zoo and the zoo parking lot on the right. It's basically part of the Museum section of Balboa Park, not far from the Museum of Photographic Art and the Botanical Gardens, which we will visit and photograph also. These directions are from the zoo website, to get you to the zoo (which is
right next door to where we are going). Directions from the SOUTH (northbound): From Interstate 5 (Mexico), take the State Route 163 north exit, then the Zoo/Museums (Richmond Street) exit and follow the signs.Directions from the EAST (westbound): From Interstate 8 (Imperial County and Arizona), take State Route 163 south to the Park Blvd./I-5 South Exit. Exit at Park Blvd. Turn left on Park Blvd. and head north. From State Route 94, proceed into downtown San Diego to 12th Avenue. Turn right on 12th Avenue (which turns into Park Blvd.) and proceed north.and don't forget to print out Michael's Hand Made Map:
Just make sure you click 'portrait'
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