Its position along Pacific Coast Highway is almost precisely midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, each of people towns existence about 230 mi (370 kilometre) away.

The key feature of the front yard occurs as big, easily-well-found, & super blatant hill-brow mansion, known as Hearst Castle, built by William Randolph Hearst early in the 20th century, which for many years has been the super popular tourist attraction.

Parties
when you took its flush, in the 1920's & 1930's, a mansion attracted several notable guests (around the main due to shower parties held by Hearst & survive-in-girlfriend Marion Davies) including: Howard Hughes, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Beatrice Lillie, Hal Roach, Calvin Coolidge, David Niven, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Clark Gable, Dolores del Rio, Hedda Hopper, Lew Ayres, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Colleen Moore, Irving Thalberg, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Errol Flynn, Buster Keaton, Judy Garland, Harpo Marx, Mary Pickford Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Winston Churchill, Louise Brooks, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Warner, Charles Lindbergh, Lupe Velez, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, William Powell, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Norma Talmadge, Louella Parsons, Joel McCrea, Clara Bow, Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Powell, Robert Taylor, Al Jolson, George Bernard Shaw, and many others.