Your call: Ventura or San Buenaventura?

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This blog voted thumbs-down on the ultimately failed attempt to change the name of El Porto to, um, something else. (It’s still El Porto here, thus it was a failed attempt.)

This is a slightly different issue, and I seek your input: If you’re visiting the coastal city in Ventura County that’s home to the San Buenaventura Mission, are you visiting:

The city of Ventura?
Or...
The city of San Buenaventura?

And which name would you prefer?

Here’s coverage from the Sunday Real Estate section of the L.A. Times: ‘Ventura is in the process of reinventing itself with a major downtown makeover, combined with moves to brand the city as a center for the arts. ... As part of its new image, more use is being made of the city’s original, official and more romantic name, San Buenaventura, especially to describe the central downtown area. That’s also home to the San Buenaventura Mission, the ninth of California’s 21 missions, founded in 1782 and completed 27 years later.’

Your thoughts? Comments? E-mail story tips to peter.viles@latimes.com
Photo Credit: A 2,500-square-foot farmhouse on Main Street in San Buenaventura, with a smaller home also on the lot, listed for $1.475 million. By Anne Cusack, L.A. Times