Tierrasanta, San Diego
Tierrasanta, Spanish for "holy land," or "holy ground", is a community in San Diego, California.
Tierrasanta, Spanish for "holy land," or "holy ground", is a community in San Diego, California. The symbol of Tierrasanta is an encircled Conquistador cross, similar to one atop Montserrat mountain near Barcelona, Spain, though it no longer holds any religious meaning. The community is referred to as "The Island in the Hills" by locals and on welcome signs, as there are only four roads that lead to Tierrasanta, all which end within the community.
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Worth seeing in and around Tierrasanta, San Diego
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Coleman University
Coleman University was a private university in San Diego, California, United States, focused on Information Technology education. Coleman had a technology-based curriculum with undergraduate, graduate, and distance education academic programs and was accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
3.7 km · private university in San Diego, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tierrasanta, San Diego
- Airports
- San Diego (SAN), 13 km · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ), 33 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 119 km
- Santa Ana → Tierrasanta, San Diego3486 km · quickest by air, 14h 50m · $770–1,160
- Palm Springs → Tierrasanta, San Diego122 km · quickest by road, 3h · $15–20
- San Bernardino → Tierrasanta, San Diego143 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tierrasanta, San Diego
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tierrasanta, San Diego. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIf you're more adventurous, you might be able to hire a Water Taxi to get to and from waterfront hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants along the bay in Downtown and Coronado.
- Go nextCoronado is a lovely little city that lies on a peninsula just across the bay, accessible from downtown by a ferry ride (departs from the Broadway Pier and the Convention Center) or by driving just a bit south of Downtown to get to the Bay Bridge.
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Tierrasanta, San Diego is 13 km from San Diego, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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