--- title: San Jose and Silicon Valley | Things to See When You Visit description: Headed to Silicon Valley? 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[![San Jose in Silicon Valley](https://www.designmind.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DesignMind_November_2021/Images/san_jose_2014.jpg?width=593&name=san_jose_2014.jpg)](https://www.designmind.com/hubfs/DesignMind_November_2021/Images/san_jose_2014.jpg) Downtown San Jose **Did you know San Jose is…** - Located 45 minutes south of San Francisco and five hours north of Los Angeles. - The oldest civilian settlement in California, founded in 1777 by Spanish colonizers. - America’s leading patent generation city. - Northern California’s largest city with a population of 984,000 (yes, larger than San Francisco!) - The third largest city in California (after LA and San Diego). - The 10th largest city in the nation. - Perhaps the largest concentration of technology expertise in the world, with 6,600 technology companies. **Tech Museums** [**Tech Museum of Innovation** ](http://www.thetech.org/) (Downtown San Jose) Three floors of “gizmos and gadgets” produced by Silicon Valley companies. [**The Intel** **Museum**](http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/intel-museum.html) (Santa Clara)  The museum is located at Intel’s headquarters and has exhibits of Intel’s history as well as the semiconductor technology in general. [**Computer History Museum**](http://www.computerhistory.org/)  (Mountain View – near Microsoft)  The Computer History Museum has the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world. **Driving Tour of Silicon Valley** [![Stanford University in Silicon Valley](https://www.designmind.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DesignMind_November_2021/Images/Stanford-University.png?width=602&name=Stanford-University.png)](https://www.stanford.edu/) Stanford University [**Stanford University**](http://www.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/)  (Palo Alto)  Stanford’s gorgeous 8,180-acre campus is the largest contiguous college campus in the United States. [**Cisco Campus**](http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac156/downloads/campusmap.pdf)  (San Jose) Drive through the enormous campus to see all 27 buildings.  You’ll find it off I-880. [**The HP Garage**](http://www.hpmuseum.org/garage/garage.htm) (Palo Alto)  This small garage is considered “the Birthplace of Silicon Valley”.  Located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. [**The Googleplex**](http://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/mountain-view/)  (Mountain View)  The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway. 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