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The only county in California named after a native Californian, Jose Maria Amador, loves its roots and gold rush era heritage. Amador\u00a0sounds a little like “amore” or “amorous” and indeed, love is everywhere on Valentine’s Day 2015. \u00a0From the Black & White Ball to raise money for the fairgrounds, to a raffle for an\u00a0$18,500 white-gold tanzanite &\u00a0diamond pendant with proceeds benefiting the Hospice of Amador & Calaveras, love comes in many packages, places and celebrations. Billed as “The Heart of the Gold Country,”\u00a0Amador County touches those who visit any day, but especially on Valentine’s Day. Historic inns with\u00a0gourmet dining and\u00a0charming wineries along country roads in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains\u00a0have some special plans to enhance the romance.\u00a0Towns such as Volcano, Pine Grove, Amador City, Jackson and\u00a0Drytown\u00a0offer\u00a0special dinners, festivals and events\u00a0on Feb. 14<\/a>\u00a0and they want tourists to fall in love with their slice of paradise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The only county in California named after a native Californian, Jose Maria Amador, loves its roots and gold rush era heritage. Amador\u00a0sounds a little like “amore” or “amorous” and indeed, love is everywhere on Valentine’s Day 2015. \u00a0From the Black & White Ball to raise money for the fairgrounds, to a raffle for an\u00a0$18,500 white-gold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/19547"}],"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=19547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}