Overview
About Talega Gallery
Talega Gallery covers 79.1 acres inside Talega and holds 284 homes on 299 parcels, at a median parcel of 0.14 acres. Thirteen streets serve it and the names read as a gallery: Camino del Prado, Camino Botero, Corte Miro, Corte Rivera and Camino Alenza, alongside Camino Lienzo, Corte Pinturas, Corte Tallista and Calle Galleria. Thirty-nine of its acres carry the Residential Medium Density designation, the densest residential class the city applies inside Talega.
The community also holds 11.2 acres of Open Space Public and 14.2 of Open Space Private, with 14.0 acres of right of way. Talega Gallery belongs to the Talega master association and falls under the Talega Specific Plan. All 79.1 acres sit in the state's Very High fire hazard severity zone. Capistrano Unified's locator returned Vista del Mar Elementary, Vista del Mar Middle and San Clemente High at all five interior points tested.
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How Talega Gallery was built
Talega Gallery is the part of Talega built for people who have already raised their families. Standard Pacific put up 283 attached and detached homes here between 2000 and 2004, every one of them restricted to residents aged 55 and over, arranged as four collections behind a single gate: Seagarden, Wavecrest, Waterleaf and Sandbridge. They share the Gallery Club, an 8,500 square foot building holding a ballroom, a card room, a fitness room and a library, with a pool, a putting green, a bocce court and a croquet lawn outside it.
The street signs explain the name. Almost everywhere else in Talega the streets are named for Spanish and Italian towns or for the sea, but inside the Gallery they read like a museum wall. Corte Miro, Corte Rivera, Camino Botero and Camino Alenza take the names of painters, Camino Del Prado takes the museum in Madrid, Corte Pinturas is paintings and Camino Lienzo is the Spanish word for a painter's canvas. The neighborhood sits at the southern end of Talega between Talega Park and the golf course, which opened in 2001 as a Fred Couples signature layout.
By the Numbers
Talega Gallery by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Talega Gallery lifestyle
San Clemente keeps ten beaches of its own along the shore, from North Beach past the pier to Riviera, and the city's Marine Safety division staffs them. The pier itself carries restrooms, metered parking, fire rings and the Amtrak and Metrolink platform at its foot.
The city publishes five trail networks that run from the sand up into the canyons and along the ridgelines. Bikes are welcome on all of them, electric bikes are not allowed on the Beach Trail, dogs are welcome on a leash, and horses are permitted on the Forster Ridgeline, Prima Deshecha and Cristianitos trails. City parks are open from 6 am to 10 pm without a reservation unless a group needs a permit.
Schools
Schools serving Talega Gallery
Capistrano Unified assigns Talega Gallery to San Clemente High, Vista del Mar Middle and Vista del Mar Elementary. The district's own school locator returned the same assignment at every point tested inside the boundary, and enrollment comes from the federal count for 2024-25.
9-12 · 2,740 students
6-8 · 499 students
K-5 · 692 students
FAQs
Common questions about Talega Gallery
How big is Talega Gallery?
The boundary the city publishes covers 79.1 acres, with 284 addresses on 299 parcels. It is the 14th largest of the fifty San Clemente communities mapped here by area and the 13th by number of homes.
Which schools serve Talega Gallery?
Capistrano Unified's school locator returned Vista del Mar Elementary, Vista del Mar Middle and San Clemente High at all five points tested inside the boundary. Confirm the assignment for a specific address with the district before you rely on it.
What is the fire hazard rating?
The state fire hazard severity map places all 79.1 acres of the boundary in its Very High class, the most severe used in San Clemente. Raise it with an insurer early.
What are the streets called?
Thirteen streets, most of them Corte or Camino names that read as a gallery: Camino del Prado, Camino Botero, Corte Miro, Corte Rivera, Camino Alenza, Camino Lienzo, Corte Pinturas, Corte Tallista and Calle Galleria among them.
When was Talega Gallery recorded?
Tract 15854 was recorded in 2000 and Tracts 15967 and 15921 in 2001, all at Miscellaneous Maps books 794 and 814. A recorded map date is when the subdivision was filed, not when a house was built.