Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace may refer to:

[edit] Europe

[edit] United Kingdom

• The Crystal Palace, an 1851 building in south London destroyed by fire in 1936.
  • The Great Exhibition, the event the building was built for, sometimes also known as Crystal Palace
• Crystal Palace, London, an area of south London, England, around the location of the former Crystal Palace
  • Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
  • Crystal Palace transmitting station
  • The area receiving terrestrial television signals from the above and the Croydon Transmitter
  • The Crystal Palace Triangle (or Upper Norwood Triangle), shopping streets in the northwest corner of the London Borough of Croydon
  • The Crystal Palace District of the London Borough of Lambeth
  • A ward of the London Borough of Bromley
  • Crystal Palace Park, the grounds to which the Crystal Palace was relocated; a remnant of Penge Common
    • The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in the park.
  • Crystal Palace F.C., a football club based at Selhurst Park in London
  • Crystal Palace F.C. (founded 1861) a defunct, separate football club, one of the most prominent clubs in the early days of the sport
  • Crystal Palace L.F.C., a ladies' soccer club based at Church Road in Whyteleafe
  • An area that was for the purposes of Social Security administered from London SE25
  • Crystal Palace railway station
  • Crystal Palace (circuit), a motor racing circuit
  • A fictional palace in the Victorian novel The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford

[edit] Germany

• Glaspalast (Munich), a building in Munich, Germany, resembling the British building
• Glaspalast (Sindelfingen), an indoor sporting arena in Sindelfingen, Germany

[edit] Other

• Glaspaleis, a former fashion house and department store in Heerlen, The Netherlands
• The Palacio de Cristal is a building inspired by the British building in the Parque del Buen Retiro in Madrid, Spain
• Crystal Palace (building), one of the tallest buildings in Italy (110 meters tall), located in Brescia
• The Crystal Palace (Sofia) is a Hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria catering to foreign, primarily English speaking, visitors.

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

• Palais Crystal Palace, an indoor amusement park in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada.
• Crystal Palace Barracks London, Ontario, Canada: Western Fair building 1867.
• Crystal Palace (Montreal) exhibition building opened in 1860 in Montreal.

[edit] United States

• The New York Crystal Palace in New York, USA, an exhibition building, modeled after the London Crystal Palace
• The Buck Owens Crystal Palace night club, museum, and restaurant in Bakersfield, California, USA
• A nickname for the NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, USA
• A restaurant at the Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida modeled after the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
• Crystal Palace Skate Center in Caddo Valley, Arkansas www.crystalpalaceskatecenter.com

[edit] Japan

• Rokumeikan (鹿鳴館, "Pavilion of the Deer's Cry"), pavilion in Tokyo, existent from 1883-1941, and often called Crystal Palace in English, despite the literal translation.

[edit] Hong Kong

• Crystal Palace Restaurant

[edit] Other

• Crystal Palace (chat site)
• The Crystal Palace (novel), a fantasy novel by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Crystal Palace Vodka, an inexpensive brand of Vodka

[edit] See also

• Glass Palace