Considered to be the birthplace of California, Old Town San Diego is home to museums ... the reconstructed Robinson-Rose House now home to the park’s visitors center; the 1825 Casa de Estudillo ...

Other Old Town museums include the first San Diego courthouse, built in 1847; the beautiful La Casa de Estudillo, an original adobe mansion from 1829; and the Robinson-Rose House, a reconstruction ...

SAN DIEGO — The original neighborhood in San Diego, Old Town, isn’t where you might expect. But visitors should definitely seek it out. Spanish explorers first made land in San Diego Bay in 1542.