Santa Monica
Santa Monica is a city in the region Los Angeles in California at the coast Pacific, south of Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Brentwood, to the west of Westwood and west of the Los Angeles and in the north of Venice.The city had 2000 84,084 inhabitants in the year.
Santa Monica lies on a Steilküste, which extends along Pacific. By the Palisades park is offered a outstanding view over the Pacific.
Because of the friendly weather Santa Monica applied in 20. Century as well-known vacation city.After the city became into the region area from of Los Angeles in in common December, the tourism arising sank. Santa Monica belongs to the most popular residential areas in the region Los Angeles.
One of the landmarks of Santa Monica is the Santa Monica jetty, which was built in the 20'sand today a small entertainment park accommodates. The jetty with the ferris wheel is a popular motive of the Hollywood - film industry.
The Third Street promenade is one of the few pedestrian precincts in the region Los Angeles. By its proximity to the Santa Monica jetty is it a popular place for touristsand native ones. In the evening hours maintain a multiplicity of road artists along this purchase area extending over three of house block. At the south end of the Third Street promenade the shopping centre Santa Monica Place attaches, which by franc Gehry was sketched.
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Northwest from Santa Monica lie the Santa Monica Mountains, a central mountain course.
traffic
one reaches Santa Monicabest over that approx. 15 km airport of Los Angeles LAX, lain south.
To Santa Monica had a bus linear network distinguished with several prices, bend Blue bus uses modern vehicles and operates for southCalifornia yardsticks comparatively frequently.
Up to beginning 19.Century was connected Santa Monica by a strassenbahnlinie with Los Angeles. This had to expand that traffic to yield.
Furthermore Santa Monica has the Santa Monica air haven for charter flights, private and sport airplanes a restaurant airport.
health service
the health supply is ensured by 2 hospitals,the two in a change phase of several years are. The Saint John's Health center was distinguished as the best local hospital of the American west coast. Nearby convenient Santa Monica UCLA Medical center, a formerly urban hospital, is in the meantime a branch office of the university clinic of the UCLA in Westwood,those to the 10 best US-American hospitals counts for its part.
churches
the largest local church is the catholic church pc. Monica, been because of the crossing of California Avenue and 7th Street.
population
an important minority of the population is mesoor Latin American descent. Most inhabitants are to be added however to the Caucasian („white “) subpopulation.
partnership between cities
Santa Monica maintains a partnership between cities with the city Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia).
sons and daughters of the city
- Kenneth meadow, Underground /Avantgarde film producer andAuthor
- Sean Astin, actor, director, author and producer
- Ernie ball, musician and inventor
- Jack Black, actor
- Geraldine Chaplin, US-American actress
- John Densmore, Schlagzeuger the skirt volumes The Doors
- Miguel Ferrer, US-American actor
- Linda Gray, actress
- Bob Gunton, filmand theatre actors
- Richard Hatch, actor
- David Hayter, synchronous speaker, actor and film script author
- Anjelica Huston, actress
- Lorenzo Lama, US-American actor
- Lorna air, US-American singer and actress
- Sidney air, US-American film producer
- Tobey Maguire, US-American Filmschauspieler
- smelling pool of broadcasting corporations May tree, US-American film script author
- Mark of Mancina, US-American composer
- Chris of Masters, Wrestler of the US-American league WWE
- Sean Penn, US-American actor, director and author
- Robert Redford, US-amerikanischer Filmschauspieler, director and producer
- Christina Ricci, US-American film actress
- Randy Rhoads, skirt guitarist into the 1980ern
- Gloria Stuart, US-AmericanActress
- Amber Tamblyn, US-American actress
- Shirley Temple, US-American actress
- Robert Trujillo, US-American musician
- Suzanne Vega, US-American Liedermacherin
- Joseph Williams, US-American rock singer
