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Watts Towers

Los Angeles, United States

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The place

Set of seventeen steel arrows covered with mosaics, the tallest at thirty meters, hand-built by Italian-American Simon Rodia over thirty-three years starting in the 1920s, using scrap metal, broken bottles, shells, and tiles. Rodia named them Nuestro Pueblo. This work of naïve architecture has multiple protections: National Historic Landmark, listing on the National Register of Historic Places, California Historical Landmark, and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Films shot here

  1. La La Land (2016)

    Directed by Damien Chazelle