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The Rough Guides Snapshot USA: Los Angeles is the ultimate travel guide to this iconic city. It leads you through La-La Land with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the glamour of Hollywood and the seaside charm of Santa Monica, to elite Rodeo Drive and enchanting Disneyland. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafs, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip to Southern California, whether youre passing through, or staying for the weekend or longer. The Rough Guides Snapshot USA: Los Angeles covers Downtown LA, South LA, Hollywood, West LA, Santa Monica and around, Malibu, Venice, the South Bay and Long Beach, Orange County and the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to The USA, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around the...

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This Rough Guides Snapshot is one of a new generation of informative and easy-to-use travel-guide eBooks that guarantees you make the most of your visit. An essential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travel companion when you're on the road.

. Shorter contents lists appear at the start of every section in the guide to make chapter navigation quick and easy. You can jump back to these by tapping the links that sit with an arrow icon.

Detailed area maps can be found in the guide and in the , which also includes a full country map, accessible from the table of contents. Depending on your hardware, you can double-tap on the maps to see larger-scale versions, or select different scales. There are also thumbnails below more detailed maps - in these cases, you can opt to zoom left/top or zoom right/bottom or view the full map. The screen-lock function on your device is recommended when viewing enlarged maps. Make sure you have the latest software updates, too.

Throughout the guide, weve flagged up our favourite places a perfectly sited hotel, an atmospheric caf, a special restaurant with Picture 2. You can select your own favourites and create a personalized itinerary by bookmarking the sights, venues and activities that are of interest, giving you the quickest possible access to everything youll need for your time away.

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INTRODUCTION TO LOS ANGELES

Thanks to Hollywood, most people on the planet have at least an idea of what Los Angeles is like, though this usually involves lots of palm trees, movie stars and glamour. The City of Angels, Tinseltown or just La-La Land is the home of the worlds movie and entertainment industry, the palaces of Beverly Hills, Sunset Strip, the original Disneyland, the Dodgers and the Lakers and a beach culture that inspired Californias modern surfing boom in the 1950s, the Beach Boys, the Doors and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Yet first-time visitors should expect some surprises, beginning with the vast size of the place, hard to absorb until you actually get here. LA is only Americas second biggest city in terms of population, but its stitched together by an intricate network of freeways crossing a thousand square miles of widely varying architecture, social strata and cultures.

Beyond the skyscrapers, Downtown LA actually has an historic Spanish-Mexican heart and is a traffic-clogged sixteen miles from the hip ocean enclaves of Santa Monica and Venice Beach and thanks to high crime and gangster rap, South Central LA and Compton have become bywords for violence and gangs such as the Crips and the Bloods.

Bordered by snowcapped mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles spreads across a great desert basin. The entertainment industry has been hyping the place ever since film-makers arrived a century ago, attracted by a climate that allowed them to film outdoors year-round. Since then, the money and glitz of Hollywood have enticed countless thousands of would-be actors, models and other budding celebrities to cast their lot in this hard-edged glamour town, their triumphs and failures becoming intrinsic to the citys towering myths. Today LA seems to be re-inventing itself again, as indie musicians, writers and designers (many fleeing high rents in San Francisco) are colonizing neighbourhoods such as Echo Park, Highland Park and Silver Lake, adding a bohemian and artistic vibe to a city often stereotyped as being in thrall to celebrity and beauty. Beyond the city proper lies the San Fernando Valley or simply the Valley , home to the movie studios of Burbank and Universal City , while to the east, the San Gabriel Valley is anchored by historic Pasadena and the lavish Huntington Library and Gardens . To the south, Orange County features a strip of affluent beach towns and the ever-popular Disneyland in Anaheim.

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This futuristic shrine to Basquiat, Hirst, Johns, Koons and Warhol is a work of art in itself.

The vaunted main strip in Hollywood is packed with gorgeous Art Deco theatres, tacky but fun museums, the Walk of Fame and the home of the Oscars.

For high-end consumers (and avid window-shoppers), this compact section of Downtown Beverly Hills, featuring jewellery, fashion and beauty boutiques, is the main reason to visit Los Angeles.

A colossal, Modernist arts centre, the Getty is stuffed with treasures of the Old World and is set on a hillside providing a great view of the metropolis.

Trawling the promenade between Santa Monica and Venice is an LA tradition, taking in the surfers, sand, musclemen, skaters and assorted eccentrics.

Kids might prefer Disneyland, but thrill-seekers should skip Mickey Mouse and make for the mother of all rollercoaster parks.

This classically dark and moody watering hole has long been a favourite hangout for movie stars of the Golden Age and todays brattier celebrities.

Brief history

The LA region was settled by Chumash and Tongva peoples thousands of years before the arrival of Spanish settlers on September 4, 1781 (a date commemorated by the LA County Fair each year). The 44 colonists from Mexico decided to locate their settlement six miles from the San Gabriel Mission, and named it Los Angeles after the Spanish phrase for Our Lady Queen of the Angels (ie Mary, the mother of Jesus). Due to flooding, in 1818 the town was moved to the present site of El Pueblo , and in 1821 a still tiny Los Angeles became part of newly independent Mexico. Even after being swallowed up by the US after the MexicanAmerican War in 1846, LA remained largely insignificant. Indeed, up to the Civil War in 1861, LA was a small town comprising white American immigrants, poor Chinese labourers and wealthy Mexican ranchers, with a population of less than five thousand. The remaining Native Americans, displaced from the San Gabriel Mission, were virtually enslaved by the growing number of settlers (a real slave market operated in LA); they were often paid in booze, if at all, a dark period that is rarely acknowledged today. In 1871, a gang war between Chinese tongs (secret societies) in LA resulted in the death of a police officer a notorious massacre of at least nineteen Chinese immigrants by a vigilante mob followed (only one of the victims was a tong gangster).

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