BONUS Ep: Go to One of the Greatest Hidden Secrets in the City - and it's FREE!

In a Minute with Evan Lovett

Audacy

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Your One Thing to Do in L.A. This Week is, simply put, awe-inspiring. A FREE visit to a place with some of the best views in Los Angeles uncovers one of the greatest Hidden Secrets in the City: a 900-seat auditorium built specifically for one of the largest paintings in the world, 195 feet long and 45 feet tall!! And the story of how it came to L.A. is almost as long as the painting itself, full of tragedy, resurrection, and wonder.

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0:00.0	Yo, welcome to the bonus episode and I just had to get this one out because this is the one thing you're going to do in LA this week and I'll be honest with you.
0:10.0	This is something I do probably every three or four months because it's probably the most awe-inspiring creation that I know of in Los Angeles and it's centrally located and it's free and it's something that I like to do
0:26.4	because the entire experience really is just jaw dropping and dare I say spiritual okay it's maybe even got religious
0:35.8	under it does have religious undertones but as you know I'm not a religious man
0:39.3	I'm a spiritual man but this is something that's really fun, memorable, and an indelible part of
0:46.7	Los Angeles that's so underappreciate.
0:48.6	So let me tell you, this is your one thing to do in LA this week.
0:52.2	You're going to go to Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale.
0:55.0	Okay, I'm telling you to go to a cemetery, right? Why? That's an odd thing to tell somebody to do.
1:02.0	But listen, it is a great place to visit. There's a museum, there's churches, there's art, architecture. Beautiful views of the city. It's right there on a hill. You could see 360 degrees, but in that cemetery,
1:18.9	there's something called the Hall of Crucifixion.
1:22.6	Okay, I told you, I'm not a religious man.
1:25.1	But what's inside the Hall of Crucifixion
1:28.3	is the largest religious painting ever painted. And you gotta hear the story of this it's not just the
1:35.4	painting it's the story that really makes this thing and after you hear this story
1:39.6	you are going to tell your friend your girlfriend your wife your husband your dog you're gonna be like let's go okay so this painting the crucifixion
1:48.9	this was a six-year project
1:52.1	completed by Polish artist Jan Steica and he began in
1:56.3	1894 after he traveled to Jerusalem and he finished the painting in Poland. And again, I want to be clear. I'm not religious. I'm not pro any religion, anti-any religion.
2:10.0	This is something that that features Jesus Christ.
2:15.0	But the thing is the story about this pain and the final creation is literally amazing.
2:24.0	It's 195 feet long, 45 feet high.
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