Les meilleurs hôtels à Sacramento

San Francisco may have its Golden Gate Bridge, but all that glitters ... well, you know. And so do the 1.5 million residents of Sacramento, California, the state capital that was born of the California Gold Rush. Actually, the Gold Rush was born of Sacramento -- it was just outside of modern Sacramento that gold was discovered at the construction site for John Sutter's sawmill in 1848. Yellow fever spread quickly, and out of a relative wilderness was born a mining boom town. Today, gold for Sacramento comes in many forms; agriculture, higher education, the arts, museums and a thriving convention business (not to mention the chip rush of nearby Silicon Valley) have helped turn the city into one of the top 10 fastest-growing metropoli in the U.S. By the year 2000, the area expects to be home to more than 2 million people. Ninety miles northeast of San Francisco and an hour's flight from L.A., the city may not have the obvious natural lures of those coastal playgrounds, but its nicknames -- "City of Trees," "Camellia Capital of the World" and (our V-8 vote) "The Big Tomato" -- hint at the leafy charms of this park-filled city.