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Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States. Metropolitan Los Angeles Country, with a population of nearly 9 million, stretches eastward from the coast for about 160 km (100 miles) to the San Gabriel Mountains and includes Long Beach, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and about 10 other independent cities. It attracts millions of visitors from all over the world. With many sights to see, including famous hotels, Mann’s Chinese theater, The Hollywood Walk of Fame, movie stars houses, beaches, restaurants, parks, shopping malls, Beverly Hills, Disneyland and Macig Mountain all combine to ensure that the City of the Angels will provide any student with a truly unforgettable stay.

CLAREMONT

Located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains along the eastern rim of Los Angeles County, Claremont has been called by some "a bit of New England with a sombrero." For hundreds of years, Serrano Indians made their homes on its soil, only to be driven out by
the Spanish missionaries, Mexican ranchers, and American settlers who put down roots there during the 1800s. The arrival of the railroad late in the century signaled the eventual departure of grazing cattle and herds of sheep meandering through clumps of sagebrush.Land developers invented Claremont in the 1880s, assuming the need for a town at its specific location along the gleaming tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad's newly opened Chicago to Los Angeles route. A real estate bust threatened the town's future, but also led to the relocation of Pomona College to the unused Claremont Hotel.

A blossoming citrus industry provided additional inhabitants and income and the town would eventually benefit from its role as a station on a passenger rail line heading into Los Angeles. As the twentieth century reached middle age, the railway shut down and the citrus groves gradually vanished. But Pomona College gave birth to five sister colleges during the 1900s, further solidifying the educational focus of the community, and Claremont grew larger and more populous after World War II, helped by new highways and industrial and residential growth in the greater Los Angeles area.