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Santa Barbara Receives New York Times Destination Recommendation

January 11, 2019

Santa Barbara is ranked third on The New York Times’ annual “52 Places to Go in 2019” list and is one of only two cities in California (Los Angeles was the other) and 11 destinations in the United States to make the newspaper’s prestigious list.


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