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The Surf's Up in San Clemente, California

Situated in the Orange County, California, San Clemente is a coastal city with about 65,000 permanent residents. Its central location between San Diego and Los Angeles means that visitors who come to enjoy San Clemente vacation homes can easily take day trips to places like Universal Studios near Hollywood or Sea World to the south. It is even quite feasible to stay in a holiday home in San Clemente and drive down to the Mexican border to spend a day in the charming town of Tijuana, located in the Mexican state of Baja California.

San Clemente itself shows a strong Spanish influence, a circumstance that makes perfect sense since the entire area was once a part of the Spanish empire in the New World. To this day, a dominant form of architecture in the city is Spanish colonial and the official nickname of the city is 'Spanish Village by the Sea'.

Surfing Opportunities in San Clemente

San Clemente's beach location means that surfing has become a popular sport and leisure time activity here. The swells are excellent during every season of the year, which explains in part why several major surfing publications use San Clemente as their home base. These include both Surfing magazine and Longboard magazine. The local high school, in fact, has won a majority of the NSSA surfing competitions held during the past few years.

Beaches frequented by locals and recommended to tourists as surfing venues include The Hole, The Pier, North Beach, and Poche Beach.