Old Point Loma Lighthouse
is a scenic hill that sits atop
San Diego Bay. Point Loma's well known landmark is the Cabrillo National Monument, named after
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of
Spain, the first
European explorer to discover San Diego Bay. The
Old Point Loma Lighthouse is part of the monument, where visitors tour the historic lighthouse that guided ships through the San Diego Bay from
1855 to
1891.
Point Loma is also home to the iPayOne Center, the popular rock concert venue SOMA, and Point Loma Nazarene University as well as many hotels, unique local businesses, and the former Naval Training Center or NTC, which is no longer a Navy base and is now known as Liberty Station; today it is comprised mostly of enlisted Navy housing and a high school known as The Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High. The NTC once served as training grounds for new Naval recruits. The current Naval Training Center is in Illinois.
