Los Angeles owes its worldwide fame to the 20th century, the rise of the film industry and the concentration of movie stars and everyone who has anything to do with this world. Los Angeles is a city built on dreams. Dreams of seekers and adventurers of untold riches, dreams of emigrants of a new better life, dreams of aspiring actors of the glitz and luxury of Hollywood.As you walk through the city, you will certainly feel the energy of these dreams, embodied in stone and concrete, metal and glass, in magnificent parks, ancient and avant-garde architectural structures, fountains, frescoes and sculptures.
Los Angeles' major asset is a convenient and simply chic location on the Pacific Coast. The city itself is spread over a hilly plain, on one side it is surrounded by mountains, on the other it rests on the ocean.The climate is better than you can imagine - hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, the latter usually lasting no more than a few months, and the sun shines overhead on 329 days a year.
At the beginning of 2018, the city had 4 million inhabitants. Los Angeles has one of the largest Asian and Hispanic communities in the United States. There is also a significant Armenian diaspora. About 50,000 homeless people live in Los Angeles.
In this city, you absolutely don't have to worry about your possible accent. Los Angeles is home to over 140 countries that speak at least 224 different languages. The city ranks second in the United States after Miami in terms of the proportion of the population born outside the country.
Los Angeles is famous for its beaches and the famous area - Hollywood. This city has many nicknames: it's just Los Angeles, and Lalaland, and Southland, and the City of Angels, and Lotus-ville and El Pueblo.
While "All-American" is not the first word that comes to mind when you think of Los Angeles, the county of the same name, the largest in America, epitomizes this diverse nation in every way. Among its inhabitants are the richest and poorest Americans, the descendants of old families and newly arrived immigrants, the most refined and rude people, the most beautiful and flashy, the most erudite and the dumbest. Even the landscape is a microcosm of the United States, with iconic beaches and snow-capped mountains, skyscrapers, sprawling suburbs, and unspoiled, untouched nature.
Yes, Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world, but the essence of the city isn't told on screen or on reality shows; Rather, you learn step by step from everyday experience. And chances are, the more you get to know this city, the more you'll enjoy it.
Now is the most interesting time to travel to Los Angeles. Hollywood and Downtown are experiencing a renaissance, while art, music, fashion and cuisine are at their peak.
With the arrival at the end of the eighteenth century. Spanish missionaries and early settlers, the Tongva and Chumash hunter-gatherer tribes gradually disappeared. Spain's first civilian settlement, El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, remained an isolated farming town for decades. Los Angeles was annexed to the United States in 1850.By 1830, its population had grown dramatically due to the fall of the Northern California "gold rush", the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the expansion of citrus production, the discovery of oil fields, the rise of the film industry, and the construction of the California Harbor Aqueduct in Los Angeles. The city's population continues to grow rapidly, from around one and a half million in 1950 to nearly four million today.
The development of Los Angeles has caused problems such as suburban sprawl and air pollution, although due to continued resistance, smog levels have declined every year since records were kept. Traffic congestion, repression in the public education system, a volatile real estate market, and occasional earthquakes and wildfires remain troublesome problems.
However, with a strong and diversified economy and declining crime rates, all things considered, Los Angeles is still struggling and surviving.
Of course, everyone knows the main attractions of the "City of Angels". You can spend hours in the park at Universal Studios, take long walks along the colorful City Mall, take pictures of the giant Hollywood letters, show off on the incredible hill of Beechwood Canyon Drive. Every tourist who comes to Los Angeles wants to walk along Hollywood Boulevard and see American celebrity handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater or great shopping at Hollywood Mall and the Highland Center.
22 янв 2022
