Santa Barbara is a county that belongs to the California State; it is located on the south part of the state at the seaside of Pacific Coast. This county is known for the wine grapes plantation that were brought and planted during the Mission Santa Barbara around the 18th century. The commercial plantation was started around 1960s that made this county as an important viticultural county. The beauty of the grape wine plantation and its wine related culture is portrayed on “Sideways” an Oscar winning film directed by Alexander Payne. The fame of chardonnay, pinot noir, rhone and voignier wines made Santa Barbara becomes a tourism destination for wine enthusiast.
One of the cities in Santa Barbara that becomes the destination or a place for acquiring the accommodation for tourist and traveler is Solvang. It is actually a Danish word that means sunny fields that represent the appearance and the environment in this small city. This city is part of the Santa Ynez valley community. Its close relation to the Danish due to the Danish colony that founded this city has made this city as the sister city of Aalborg in 1971. Today, there are bakeries, stores and restaurant that offer Danish taste. The solvang hotels are mostly become the accommodation choice for tourist and traveler who travel to Santa Barbara for wines or cycling tour around the sunny fields of vineyards.
Santa Barbara and Solvang are offering beautiful environment for sightseeing that commonly enjoyed on a cycling tour due to these cities are parts of the Tour of California 800 miles cycling route. The beautiful landscape of canyons and the rolling hills with Oak trees and vineyards made the scenery is an unforgettable experience. The santa barbara wine region hotel can be the perfect accommodation choice for anyone who wanted to have wine tour or take a cycling journey through the sunny fields of up and down vineyard hills of Santa Ynez valley.
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