Theme Week Los Angeles – Bel Air
Wednesday, 9 March 2016 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika Category/Kategorie: General , Greater Los Angeles Area
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Bel Air or
Bel Air Estates is an affluent neighborhood in
Los Angeles . Bel Air is situated about 12 miles (19 km) west of
Downtown Los Angeles and includes some of the foothills of the
Santa Monica Mountains . It lies across
Sunset Boulevard from the northern edge of the main campus of the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) . At the heart of the community sits the
Bel-Air Country Club and the
Hotel Bel-Air . Along with
Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles community of
Brentwood , it is one of the “Three Bs”, a wealthy area in the
Los Angeles Westside . Together with
Beverly Hills and
Holmby Hills , Bel Air forms the
Platinum Triangle of Los Angeles neighborhoods.
The community was founded in 1923 by Alphonzo Bell . Bell owned farm property in Santa Fe Springs , California, where oil was discovered. He bought a large ranch with a home on what is now Bel Air Road. He subdivided and developed the property with large residential lots. He also built the Bel-Air Beach Club in Santa Monica and the Bel-Air Country Club . His wife chose Italian names for the streets. She also founded the Bel-Air Garden Club in 1931.
West Gate at Sunset and Bellagio © Leahcim506
Of several entrances, there are two main ones: The
East Gate at
Beverly Glen and
Sunset Boulevard s and the West Gate at Bellagio Drive of UCLA and Sunset Boulevard, opposite an entrance to UCLA. Bel Air is generally subdivided into three distinct neighborhoods:
East Gate Old Bel Air , West Gate Bel Air, and Upper Bel Air.
The
Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is located in Bel Air. It was inspired by the gardens of
Kyoto . Many structures in the garden—the main gate, garden house, bridges, and shrine—were built in Japan and reassembled here. Antique stone carvings, water basins and lanterns, as well as the five-tiered pagoda, and key symbolic rocks are also from Japan. Several hundred tons of local stones came from the quarries in
Ventura County and the foot of
Mount Baldy , northeast of Los Angeles.
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Wikipedia Bel Air (
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GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank -
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