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The Venice Canal Historic District is embedded in the residential Venice suburb of Los Angeles, California. The historic district is noteworthy for possessing man-made wetland canals, built in 1905 by developer Abbot Kinney as part of his Venice of America. Kinney sought to recreate the appearance and feel of Venice, Italy, in coastal Los ...
Venice, originally called "Venice of America", was founded by wealthy developer Abbot Kinneyin 1905 as a beach resort town, 14 miles (23 km) west of Los Angeles. He and his partner Francis Ryan had bought 2 miles (3 km) of ocean-front property south of Santa Monicain 1891. They built a resort town on the north end of the property, called Ocean ...
The Grand Canal ( Italian: Canal Grande [kaˌnal ˈɡrande], locally and informally Canalazzo; Venetian: Canal Grando, locally usually Canałaso [kanaˈɰaso]) is the largest channel in Venice, Italy, forming one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and ...
45°25′52″N 12°20′28″E / . 45.431°N 12.341°E. / 45.431; 12.341. The Giudecca Canal ( Venetian: Canal de ła Zueca) is a body of water that flows into the San Marco basin in Venice, Italy. It is one of the major canals in the city, it bisects the sestieri of Dorsoduro, separating Giudecca island and district from Dorsoduro ...
Alligator–Pungo Canal. Hyde County, Tyrell County. NC. 22 mi (35 km) Assawoman Canal. Sussex County. DE. 4 mi (6.4 km) Part of the Intracoastal Waterway.
Beverly Park, Los Angeles. Coordinates: 34°07′18″N 118°25′05″W. North Beverly Park as seen from a ridge overlooking it near San Ysidro Drive. The Beverly Park gatehouse at Summitridge. Beverly Park, divided into North Beverly Park and South Beverly Park, is a gated community in Los Angeles, California [ 1][ 2] primarily known for its ...
Marina Peninsula is a neighborhood in western Los Angeles, California. It is often considered a subsection of the adjacent neighborhood of Venice. Because of its name it is sometimes erroneously thought to be part of the adjacent community of Marina del Rey, California, [1] but it was annexed to Los Angeles along with the rest of Venice in 1925.
People take a gondola ride by the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice on September 9, 2020, on the eighth day of the 77th Venice Film Festival, during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the ...