The 2014 Holiday Season Lighting Ceremony at El Pueblo de Los Angeles is an annual free event in the historic heart of Los Angeles that features entertainment, refreshments, kids’ moon bounce and train rides, face painting, photos with Santa, and other family-friendly activities. Mariachi Loco del Valle and Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea will be performing.
Date: Friday, December 5, 2014
Time: 5:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: El Pueblo Monument – Placita Olvera
125 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012 [map]
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is near the site of the early Los Angeles pueblo or town where forty-four settlers of Native American, African and European heritage journeyed more than one-thousand miles across the desert from present-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in September 1781. Since that time, Los Angeles has been under the flags of Spain, Mexico and the United States and has grown into one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas.
Today, as a department of the City of Los Angeles, El Pueblo is a living museum that continues to fulfill its unique role as the historic and symbolic heart of the city, reflecting the Native American, African American, Spanish, Anglo, Mexican, Chinese, Italian and French cultures that contributed to its early history. Of the monument’s twenty-seven historic buildings, eleven are open to the public as businesses or have been restored as museums.
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For more information, call (213) 628-1274 or (213) 485-8372, or visit elpueblo.lacity.org.