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Swiss Hotel is historical building built in 1850, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Swiss Hotel is a California Historical Landmark No. 496 listed on October 17, 1951. Swiss Hotel was built by Don Salvador Vallejo, brother of Mexican General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Don Salvador Vallejo built next to the Swiss Hotel his house, Salvador Vallejo Adobe, in 1836. The Swiss Hotel has been sold number of time. In the 1870s the hotel was a stagecoach stop. The hotel was sold in 1892 to the Toroni family, which ran the Ticino Hotel. Ticino Hotel had guest from the nearyby railroad station and its employees. The original Ticino Hotel, west side of the Plaza, was lost in a fire. In 1923 the hotel was sold to Mose Mastelotto, then inherited by his daughter, Antonetta and her husband Henry Marioni in 1929. In 1945, Marioni daughter, Helen, and her husband Ted Dunlap inherited the Hotel running it until 1991. In 1991 their nephew Hank Marioni remodeled and updated the old building, still in the family. The hotel and restaurant are at 18 West Spain Street, Sonoma. In 1861, it was sold to Dr. Victor J. Faure, of the Vallejo family vineyards. At its peak the Vallejo vineyard had more than 18,000 vines. Vallejo vineyard was the first commercial vineyard in Sonoma County. The Swiss Hotel is near the Sonoma State Historic Park and across the street from the Sonoma Plaza.A historical marker is at Swiss Hotel, placed by the California State Park Commission.

Bear Flag Monument (also known as Raising of the Bear Flag) is a public artwork located at the Sonoma Plaza in Sonoma, California in the United States. A monument to the Bear Flag Revolt, the piece is listed as a California Historical Landmark.

The Sonoma Cheese Factory is a cheese producer and specialty food store with a wine shop and café in Sonoma, California in the United States.

The Salvador Vallejo Adobe is a historic building located in Sonoma, California in the United States. The building is a California Historic Landmark.

Charles Creek Vineyard was a winery in Sonoma, California that specialized in Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wine and dessert wine.

Union Hotel and Union Hall Site is historical site of buildings built in 1850, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Union Hotel and Union Hall Site is a California Historical Landmark No. 627 listed on January 13, 1958. The original Union Hotel was a one-story adobe built by three veterans of the Mexican–American War. Next to the Union Hotel was built the Union Hall. The two buildings were lost in 1866 fire. The Union Hotel was rebuilt into a two-story stone hotel. The hotel was on the second floor and a hall was on the first floor. The Union Hotel and Union Hall were on the south side of the Sonoma Plaza. The Union Hotel was a social center of the town. United States Army soldiers such as William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph Hooker, George Stoneman, and George Derby used the hall as gathering space. The hall also used as a theatre for plays, social, musical, and political events. The Union Hotel closed in 1955 and was sold to Bank of America, which removed the building for a new bank branch. The Union Hotel was at 35 Napa Street in Sonoma.A California historical marker is at 35 Napa Street in Sonoma, a bank parking lot with a flag poles. The historical marker for the Union Hotel and Union Hall Site, was placed there by the California Department of Parks & Recreation in working with the Sonoma Branch of Bank of America in 1982.

The Sonoma Barracks (Spanish: Cuartel de Sonoma) is a two-story, wide-balconied, adobe building facing the central plaza of the City of Sonoma, California. It was built by order of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo to house the Mexican soldiers that had been transferred from the Presidio of San Francisco in 1835. The Presidio Company and their commander, Vallejo, were also responsible for controlling the Native Americans living on the northern border of Mexican California. On June 14, 1846, the Pueblo of Sonoma was taken over by a group of American immigrants seeking to establish their own California Republic. The barracks became the headquarters this short-lived insurrection later known as the Bear Flag Revolt. Believing that war with Mexico had been declared, ships of the U.S. Pacific Squadron took over Monterey on July 7 and Yerba Buena (now San Francisco) on July 9, 1846. The U. S. flag was raised at the barracks that same day – ending the California Republic and the Bear Flag Revolt. After that, the barracks was used by U.S. forces until 1852. Throughout the Mexican–American War and the subsequent California Gold Rush these forces continued to confront Native Americans hostile to invaders occupying their lands.When the military left, the building was used for a number of civilian purposes until being acquired by the State of California in 1957. The Sonoma Barracks is now part of Sonoma State Historic Park.

El Dorado Kitchen (also called EDK) is a restaurant and bar located in Sonoma, California in the United States. It is located on the property of the El Dorado Inn in downtown Sonoma.

The Girl & The Fig (stylized as the girl & the fig) is a restaurant in Sonoma, California in the United States. It was opened in Glen Ellen, California by Sondra Bernstein in 1997. In 2001, the restaurant relocated to downtown Sonoma.

Sonoma International Film Festival (SIFF) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization dedicated to promoting the best in independent film and filmmakers from around the world, inspiring savvy film lovers and introducing the power of film to student filmmakers.

Cafe La Haye is a restaurant in Sonoma, California in the United States. It was opened by owner Saul Gropman in 1996. When Michael Bauer was food critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, Cafe La Haye was a perennial listing in his annual Top 100 restaurants list and one of his favorite restaurants in Wine Country. Cafe La Haye sources food produced within 60 miles of the restaurant.

Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last, and northernmost mission in Alta California. It was named for Saint Francis Solanus. It was the only mission built in Alta California after Mexico gained independence from Spain. The difficulty of its beginning demonstrates the confusion resulting from that change in governance. The California Governor wanted a robust Mexican presence north of the San Francisco Bay to keep the Russians who had established Fort Ross on the Pacific coast from moving further inland. A young Franciscan friar from Mission San Francisco de Asis wanted to move to a location with a better climate and access to a larger number of potential converts.The Mission was successful, given its short eleven year life, but was smaller in number of converts and with lower productivity and diversity of industries than the older California missions.The mission building is now part of the Sonoma State Historic Park and is located in the city of Sonoma, California.