Example sentences for: simeon

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  • The rugged coast continues south for another 65 miles (105 km) along to San Simeon, where William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate immortalized by Orson Welles in the film Citizen Kane, built his unbelievable dream castle on a hilltop high above the sea.

  • Hearst Castle now forms the centerpiece of the Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument, and is one of the most popular attractions in all California (guided tours only).

  • Here he entertained the movie star Marion Davies, his mistress for 30 years, and famous guests such as Charlie Chaplin, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, and the photographer Herman Mankiewicz, who recorded life at San Simeon for posterity.

  • On the west bank of the river — set in a desert landscape — is the seventh-century Coptic monastery of St. Simeon now sadly in ruins, and the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan (1877–1957), spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim sect.

  • Beyond San Simeon the rugged coastline begins to relent, and farms and oil rigs take the place of crags and canyons.


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