27/50.- San Francisco, City Lights Bookstore

Two blocks north on Columbus Ave. at 261 stands another cultural landmark: City Lights Bookstore, founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Much more than a bookshop and a printing house, City Lights has been the center of radical American movement known as the Beat generation. This year City Lights Bookstore celebrates 50 years of commitment to promoting independent, anti-authoritarian, insurgent fiction and non fiction authors. If there plenty of food for thought in the City Lights Bookstore, the aroma of garlic in the neighborhood invites us outside to discover one of the many Italian restaurants scattered along the way.

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