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The Santa Monica Pier reaches about 490 metres into the Pacific at the foot of Colorado Avenue. Built in 1909, it carries the Looff Hippodrome of 1916 with its carousel, the small Pacific Park amusement park with a solar-powered Ferris wheel, an aquarium run by Heal the Bay, restaurants and anglers' rails, and marks the western end of Route 66.
Venice Beach is the beach and oceanfront boardwalk of Venice, a Los Angeles neighbourhood founded in 1905 by Abbot Kinney with canals modelled on Venice in Italy. The paved Ocean Front Walk is lined with shops, food stands and street performers, and along the sand are the Muscle Beach outdoor gym, a skate park and basketball courts.
The Getty Center is the hilltop campus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Brentwood, designed by Richard Meier and opened in 1997. A tram brings visitors up from the car park to pavilions clad in travertine that show European paintings, drawings, sculpture, manuscripts and photographs, and to the Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin.
The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is the J. Paul Getty Museum's site for the art of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria. Opened in 1974 and modelled on the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, it holds about 44,000 antiquities in galleries around peristyle gardens with a long reflecting pool, above the Pacific Coast Highway.
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