Venice is a district of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is better known fear about canals and beaches, but it also has a somewhat bohemian residential area, as well as a super colorful 4 km walk along the ocean. It is located 23km from downtown Los Angeles.

The sector known as Venice Beach includes the beach, the promenade parallel to the beach, the beach known as Muscle Beach, frequented by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his days as a bodybuilder, the handball and beach volleyball courts, the Skate Dancing plaza , the bike paths, and the stores and residences that have their addresses facing the ocean. It is a great magnet for tourists, and even for residents of other parts of Los Angeles, it is well known for its eclectic style, atmosphere known as a counterculture.

Along the southern portion of the beach at the end of Washington Boulevard is the Venice Fishing Pier. A cement structure, inaugurated in 1964, but closed in 1983 due to damage caused by El Niño storms, reopening only in the mid-1990s. On December 21, 2005, the pier was again damaged when an unusually large swell knocked parts of it into the ocean. The jetty remained closed until May 25, 2006, when it was reopened, after an engineering study concluded that the jetty structure was healthy.

Date: October 2009
Photographer: Bruno Sellés
Additional information: Wikipedia