{"id":13913,"date":"2013-10-06T02:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T09:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2013-10-06T02:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T09:57:26","slug":"here-comes-santa-but-which-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/here-comes-santa-but-which-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes Santa, But Which One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sanclaus.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Halloween ends in a few short weeks people will be thinking about Santa&#8211;but which one? In California there are 12 cities and towns named &#8220;Santa&#8221; after the Spanish word generally meaning &#8220;holy&#8221; or &#8220;saint&#8221;. Those growing up believing in Santa Claus with his miraculous powers to travel the globe in 24 hours and dispense gifts in every home, certainly had to ask themselves how any human being could accomplish such a task . \u00a0Here is a list of California Santas, what county each is located in, the year each Santa was established, and links to \u00a0Santa Claus sightings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0CITY \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0COUNTY | \u00a0 \u00a0ESTABLISHED\u00a0| \u00a0SANTA SIGHTING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SANTA ANA<\/strong> | \u00a0Orange\u00a0| \u00a01886\u00a0| \u00a0 MainPlace mall<\/li>\n<li><strong>SANTA BARBARA<\/strong> | \u00a0Santa Barbara\u00a0| \u00a01850 \u00a0| \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/santa-barbara-parade.html\">Downtown Holiday Parade\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Clara | \u00a0Santa Clara\u00a0| \u00a01852<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0| \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/santa-clara-tree-lighting.html\">Holiday Tree Lighting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Clarita | Los Angeles\u00a0| \u00a01987 \u00a0<strong>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/santa-clarita-christmas.html\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/santa-clarita-christmas.html\">Breakfast with Santa\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>SANTA CRUZ<\/strong> | \u00a0 Santa Cruz |\u00a0 1866 \u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/santa-cruz-holiday-parade.html\">Holiday Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Fe Springs | Los Angeles |\u00a0 1957 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/santa-fe-springs-tree-lighting.html\">Tree Lighting Ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Maria | \u00a0Santa Barbara\u00a0| \u00a01905 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/santa-maria-christmas-parade.html\">Parade of Lights<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Monica | \u00a0 Los Angeles\u00a0| \u00a0 1886 \u00a0| \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/santa-monica-tree-lighting.html\">Tree Lighting Ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Nella | \u00a0Merced \u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0town\u00a0| \u00a0Christmas Parade 1st Friday in December<\/li>\n<li>Santa Paula | \u00a0Ventura<strong>\u00a0|<\/strong> \u00a01902<strong>\u00a0| \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/santa-clara-tree-lighting.html\">Holiday Tree Lighting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>SANTA ROSA<\/strong> | \u00a0Sonoma\u00a0| \u00a01868 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/santa-rosa-tree-lighting.html\">\u00a0Tree Lighting Ceremony<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Santa Ynez | \u00a0Santa Barbara\u00a0| \u00a0town<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(County Seat listed in above in Bold Caps)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Halloween ends in a few short weeks people will be thinking about Santa&#8211;but which one? In California there are 12 cities and towns named &#8220;Santa&#8221; after the Spanish word generally meaning &#8220;holy&#8221; or &#8220;saint&#8221;. Those growing up believing in Santa Claus with his miraculous powers to travel the globe in 24 hours and dispense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}