City Guide:
Santa Monica has been a playground for almost a century.
A progressive California beach city it has been a favored holiday-spot for more than a century, this city enjoys an average of 310 days of sunshine a year.
From the famed Santa Monica Pier, the last of several amusement piers built in the early 1900s, Muscle Beach, to Disneyland and Magic Mountain you too can discover the allure of a city that has attracted people from working class vacationers to Hollywood legends to its streets and beaches.
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A compact, pedestrian-friendly little city, Santa Monica is home to a dynamic population of artists, writers, and entertainment folk. From its beginnings as a resort at the turn of last century when railroad owners built the first version of the amusement park on Santa Monica pier as an attraction to fill empty train seats on weekends, Santa Monica grew.
It's attractions include;
- Bergamot Station Arts Center features 30 art galleries, including the Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Montana Avenue, filled with small stores and restaurants it is a hang-out of the rich and, often, famous
- Santa Monica Pier's boardwalk is home to the huge Ferris Wheel that serves as the city's icon. An old-fashioned amusement park, with reasonable by-the-ride pricing, including a small roller coaster, it also has restaurants, bars and souvenir shops
- Santa Monica Beach, sprawling on both sides of the pier it is the quintessential California beach
An ideal location to base yourself when visiting the Los Angeles area Santa Monica is close to other major sites like Venice Beach, Malibu and Beverly Hills.
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