Famous Victoria Beach:
Victoria Beach ~ Skim-boarding and body surfing. Volleyball courts plus the site of the 'La Tour' a historical landmark built in 1926. Laguna Beach Art Festivals ~ July through August California's oldest and most prestigious art show. Featuring 150 of Southern California's most prestigious artists. Exhibits open 10:30am - 11:30 pm daily. Art demonstrations, workshops, entertainment, food. Pageant of the Masters ~ the Festival of Art's most famous attraction, is a stage presentation of 'living pictures.' Pageant begins nightly at 8:30 pm. Sawdust Art Festival ~ An artists 'village' built each year from 'the ground up' in a wooded glen with waterfalls, trees and exotic plants, art exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, family oriented entertainment, food. July 2 - Sept 5, 10 am - 10 pm daily.
Laguna Beach History:
Laguna Beach is Southern California's premier seaside artist haven. Though world famous, Laguna Beach still possesses a unique small-town charm rarely found anywhere else. Quaint cottages framed by subtropical gardens line bluffs above sandy coves along a seven mile picture-postcard coastline. Inland, luxuriant foliage and seaview homes cover canyons and ridges that tower more than 1,000 feet above the ocean. Artists began arriving here over a century ago (Norman St. Claire in 1903) soon followed by the Hollywood elite (Bette Davis, Mary Pickford, Mary Miles Minter, Victor Mature, Judy Garland, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Rooney all maintained homes in Laguna Beach). In 1920 they founded the Laguna Playhouse - the oldest continuously operating theatre company on the west coast. Today, visitors from around the world come to Laguna Beach to enjoy the Pageant of the Masters/Festival of Arts, the Sawdust Festival, Art-A-Fair and the Laguna Beach Film Festival.
Golf:
We are close to some of the greatest golf courses in Southern California. Pelican is sometimes called the Pebble Beach of Southern California. To the south about a half mile is the 9 hole Ben Browns Golf Course (public). Another few miles south is the St Regis Monarch Bay Golf Course home to the Hyundai Classic (Public).
Other Activities:
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