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Best Free Things to Do

  • Timken Museum of Art: It's a small collection, and the museum's modern architecture is completely out of place in Balboa Park, but the always-free Timken (tel. 619/239-5548) houses 600 years of art history. Masterpieces by Rembrandt and Rubens, as well as works by such seminal American painters as Eastman Johnson and John Singleton Copley, are among the holdings.

  • Organ Pavilion Concerts: Organ recitals have been staged at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion (tel. 619/702-8138) in Balboa Park almost without interruption since 1915. With 4,530 pipes, this is one of the world's largest outdoor organs. Free concerts are presented every Sunday at 2pm.

  • Chicano Park Murals: More than 70 works of art grace the support columns of the Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan's Chicano Park, National Avenue at Crosby Street (tel. 619/563-4661). The images celebrate and honor Latino heroes and culture, and are considered the largest and most important collection of outdoor murals in the country.

  • Self-Realization Fellowship Temple: This retreat in Encinitas, 215 W. K St. (tel. 760/753-2888), with its distinctive lotus-shaped towers, was built by a yogi in 1937. Its cliffside meditation gardens overlook the Pacific and offer incredible vistas. Visitors are welcome free of charge.
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