The Castro District, commonly referenced as The Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco, California.

It extends down Market Street toward Church Street and on both sides of the Castro neighborhood from Church Street to Eureka Street.

The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.

The neighborhood, previously known as Eureka Valley, became known as the Castro, after the landmark theatre by that name near the corner of Castro and Market Streets.

Traffic flow is limited – one main north access through Castro Street to Eureka Valley, one main west access up Clipper Street toward the former Twin Peaks toll plaza and west of the city, several east accesses to the Mission District through 24th, Cesar Chavez and other numbered streets, and the main north – south Church Street access used by the J Church Muni Light Rail.

The Duboce Triangle neighborhood is located near the center of San Francisco, just below the hilly slopes of Buena Vista between the neighborhoods of the Castro / Eureka Valley, the Mission District, and the Lower Haight.

Eureka Station in the Twin Peaks Tunnel was originally a stop on the M line, but the station was closed and replaced by Castro Street Station when the Metro system opened.

Eureka Station in the Twin Peaks Tunnel was originally a stop on the K line, but the station was closed and replaced by Castro Street Station when the Metro system opened.

The Market Street Subway connects with the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel between Castro Street Station and the now disused Eureka Station.

The Eureka Station was closed, and the Metro lines stop at the nearby Castro Street Station instead.

Eureka Valley is a neighborhood in San Francisco, primarily a quiet residential neighborhood but boast one of the most visited sub-neighborhoods-The Castro.

The opening of the Market & Castro Street Cable Car line in 1886 opened Eureka Valley to development — primarily small wood-frame cottages and two-story flats.

The commercial area of Eureka Valley, centered around the intersection of 18th Street and Castro Street, was transformed in the 1970s with the development of the gay community known as " The Castro.

Many of the city's more affluent residents, both black and white, left the city after the war, moving to neighboring Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito to the north ; to San Leandro, Hayward, Castro Valley and Fremont in Southern Alameda County ; and to the newly developing East Bay suburbs, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord.

Although the greater gay community was, and is, concentrated in the Castro, many gay people live in the surrounding residential areas bordered by Corona Heights, the Mission District, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks, and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods.

Castro Street, which originates a few blocks north at the intersection of Divisadero and Waller Streets, runs south through Noe Valley, crossing the 24th Street business district and ending as a continuous street a few blocks farther south as it moves toward the Glen Park neighborhood.

Part of State Route 238 until 1983, and still considered the same route ( part of Route 238 ) by the California Department of Transportation ( Caltrans ), it connects Interstate 580 in Castro Valley ( where SR 238 continues south ) with Interstate 880 in San Leandro.

Although the I-238 goes in an east – west direction from Castro Valley to San Leandro, Caltrans officially signs it as a north – south freeway since the rest of State Route 238 is more north – south.

The south ( or east ) terminus of I-238 is at its interchange with Interstate 580 and SR 238 in Castro Valley.

I-238 and I-880 is used as an alternate truck route between Castro Valley and Oakland ; trucks over 4. 5 tons are prohibited through the latter on I-580.

Castro Valley is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Alameda County, California, United States.

Castro Valley, about 1970Before the arrival of European settlers the area was settled by the Chocheño ( also spelled Chochenyo or Chocenyo ) subdivision of the Ohlone Native Americans.

With the arrival of Europeans, Castro Valley was part of the land granted to Mission San Jose in 1797.

The area Castro Valley now occupies was part of the extensive colony of New Spain in what was the state of Alta California.

Castro Valley is named after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army and a rancher.

Castro Valley was part of the original < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 28, 000 acre ( 110 km² )</ span > land grant given to Castro, called Rancho San Lorenzo.

This land grant included Hayward, San Lorenzo, and Castro Valley, including Crow Canyon, Cull Canyon, and Palomares Canyons.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Castro Valley was known for its chicken ranches.

Lake Chabot lies at the north of Castro Valley.

The eastern hills of Castro Valley constitute the headwaters of the San Lorenzo Creek watershed and the origin of several creeks that flow into San Lorenzo Creek: Bolinas, Castro Valley, Chabot, Crow, Cull, Eden, Hollis, Kelly Canyon, Norris, and Palomares creeks.

The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

Acropolis is also the term used by archaeologists and historians to the urban Castro culture settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.

* 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

The current Minister of Foreign Relations as of 2011 is Jorge Lara Castro

It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.

Urban's death ( 29 July 1644 ) is said to have been hastened by chagrin at the result of the Wars of Castro.

The death of Pope Urban VIII is said to have been hastened by chagrin at the result of the First War of Castro, a war he had undertaken against Odoardo Farnese, the Duke of Parma.

* 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.

* December 2 – Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist-Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism.

** A 3-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro and the Venezuelan government, whose objective is to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

* September 2 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.

At the top of this hill is the Abbey of Sacromonte and the College of Sacromonte, founded in the 17th century by the then Archbishop of Granada Pedro de Castro.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; born August 13, 1926 ) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

Castro is a controversial and highly divisive world figure, being lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but his critics have accused him of being a dictator whose authoritarian administration has overseen multiple human rights abuses both at home and abroad.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

Le Cid ( al sayyid in Arabic ; roughly translated as ' The Lord '), is based on the play Mocedades del Cid ( 1621 ) by Guillem de Castro.

On MinnPost. com, Ventura's agent, Steve Schwartz, describes the book thus: " is revealing why he left politics and discussing the disastrous war in Iraq, why he sees our two-party system as corrupt, and what Fidel Castro told him about who was really behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

* St John sub Castro ( Latin for St. John-under-the-Castle ) is the northernmost church in the old town.

The 2008-2012 alcalde is Jorge Castro Muñoz.