WELCOME TO SONOMA

Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Spanish colonial past. Sonoma today is a center of wine industry for the Sonoma Valley AVA Appellation, as well as the home of the nationally recognized Sonoma Valley Film Festival. Sonoma's population was 9,128 as of the 2000 census. Sonoma was the capital of the short-lived California Republic.

Points of Interest

• Agua Caliente
• The Valley of the Moon
• Sonoma Creek
• Arroyo Seco Creek
• Jack London State Historic Park
• Quarryhill Botanic Garden
• Sonoma Valley
• Sonoma Developmental Center
• Cornerstone Sonoma Internationally acclaimed garden installations created by world class landscape architects from around the world. Plus, shops, art galleries, a cafe, and wine tasting.
• Buena Vista Winery
• Wine Country
• Sonoma Traintown Railroad - a quarter scale train in a park 1-mile (1.6 km) south of the Town Square that covers 10 acres. It has a petting zoo, ferris wheel, vintage carousel, scrambler, miniature coaster and an airplane ride. Train Town has claimed to be one fifth the size of the original Disneyland. It was opened in 1968.
• Sonoma Plaza
• Blue Wing Inn of 1840, where such notable guests, according to local tradition, included John C. Frémont, U. S. Grant, Governor Pío Pico, Kit Carson, Fighting Joe Hooker, William T. Sherman, Phil Sheridan, and members of the Bear Flag Party.
• General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Home: official residence of the last Spanish Governor.
• Presidio of Sonoma adobe
• Mission San Francisco Solano, California's last Spanish Mission
• Swiss Hotel - adobe structure and original home of Vallejo's brother, located on The Plaza.
• Sebastiani Theatre - a historical theatre built in 1933 by August Sebastiani as a movie house.
• Infineon Raceway
• The Sonoma Overlook Trail
• Microsoft Windows Bliss (image) was photographed southeast of town on Fremont Drive near the site of Stornetta's Dairy.