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From Santa Monica to Malibu City, takes about five
minutes by car. This is the segment scenic highway. Side of the mountains,
steep slopes a green forest. Side of the sea, the blue sea waves beat slightly.
This is the famous Pacific Coast Hwy. To the Getty Villa can also take public
transport, LA's Metro bus 534 stops directly in front of the nearby Getty Villa
Coastline Drive and Pacific Coast Highway intersection.
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Edge of the road to
see the Getty Villa
The Getty Villa is located on a hillside in Malibu,
CA, standing on the top; you can overlook the Pacific Ocean. There are
world-famous Sunset Blvd, west by the Pacific Ocean, the
long curved mountain road with numerous luxury villas, are billionaires and
movie stars who love living paradise. I'm not looking for a movie star who
lived in the mansion to Malibu, I want to visit a beautiful manor that is a
U.S. oil tycoons.
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The Getty Villa is private. A limited number of
visitors per day, to visit The Getty Villa is first to make an appointment
online, and do not charge entrance fees but only charge $ 15 for parking fees
(including The Getty Villa and Getty Centre), took office receipts to collect $
5 coupon in The Getty Villa. Fees are subject to change, all subject to The
Getty Villa website http://www.getty.edu/visit/ Each adult ticket can bring three children
aged 15 and under in the same car。
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The Getty Villa is open every Wednesday until Monday
10:00am to 17:00pm. Tuesday, New Year's, July 4th Independence Day,
Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day closed.
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Jean
Paul Getty, 1892-1976. Getty is the world's richest men; he inherited his
father's oil company George F. Getty, Inc. In 1930 he became president and
general manager of the company, in 1956 renamed the Getty Oil Company, and
became the company's principal owner, from the early 1950s until his death, the
Getty has been living in the UK, his personal assets are estimated to be about
$ 3.2 billion.
His whole life was very rich, but very stingy too.
He was very tasteful art collector, with his 3.2 billion dollars for California
public building two art galleries when he dead; The Getty Villa and the Getty
Center; so that we can enjoy the splendid artistic heritage.
A timeline of The Getty Villa
1945 – J. Paul Getty purchases a sixty – acre site
in Malibu.
1954 – He
opens the original J. Paul Getty Museum in his home to exhibit his collection of
which
Greek and Roman antiquities are an important element
1968 – Getty decides to re-create a first – century
Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri, on the property to display his growing
collection of art.
1974 – The new J. Paul Getty Museum opens to the
public, becoming one of Southern
California’s cultural landmarks.
1997 – The Malibu site closes for renovation; the
Getty Center opens to the public.
2006 – The newly renovated Malibu site opens as the
Getty Villa, dedicated to the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and
Etruria.
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Two thousand years ago, the eruption of
Vesuvius in Italy, along with the famous Pompeii is 30 meters there are two
volcanic ashes covered the city called Herculaneum and Stabiae. Excavations in
the city, people restore a modern world's largest and oldest residential: Villa
dei Papiri.
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J. Paul Getty at a ratio of one, once again
built this two millennia old house in Malibu City. The only different is about
altitude locations. Villa dei Papiri is situated on the coast, while the Getty
Villa is located in the seaside slopes. They are sea view rooms, but the Getty
Villa higher.
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The Getty Villa reproduce two thousand years
ago the ancient way of life, the most impressive is the architectural
decoration of life. Getty Villa pillars carved to imitate the wild. Ceiling
painting vines, people feel like being in drawing near.
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From
here you can see the Pacific Ocean
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Getty Villa was closed for renovations in 1997,
after nine years of $ 2.75 million renovation and expansion, Getty Villa Museum
re-opened in 2006, and added that the shape of imitation Coliseums Piazza,
there are 450 seats, the square next to the restaurant and gift shop.
| .Museum interior is composed of two floors， 29 galleries, gallery seat central atrium with pond |
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There are over 40,000 hand-painting the eggs in
the corridors. Drawn to the final only eggs, gardeners feel that their patience
enough to make egg chicks are hatched, so he put the egg painted chicks break
the shell-like.
Getty
Villa Museum artifacts collected, concentrated in the Greek, Roman and Etruscan
artifacts.
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If you come to Los Angeles, do not
miss the Getty Villa.
