Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city has been dubbed "The American Riviera". According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the city's population was 88,665.
Image: Mission Santa Barbara Flickr brewbooks (cropped)
Image: Santa Barbara Downtown (may 2012) (2) (cropped)
Image: Aerial Santa Barbara CA10 28 08 (cropped)
Image: SB Presidio
Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Greek saint and martyr.
St. Barbara with her attribute – three-windowed tower, central panel of St. Barbara Altarpiece (1447), National Museum in Warsaw
Torture of St. Barbara
The beheading of St. Barbara by Giulio Quaglio the Younger (1721–1723)
Saint Barbara in Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, c. 1520s