Golden Gate (disambiguation)

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Golden Gate can refer to:

Contents 1 Historic town gates 2 Topography of San Francisco 2.1 Related uses 3 Other places 4 Entertainment 4.1 Novels 4.2 Films and television 5 Other uses

[edit] Historic town gates

• Golden Gate (Constantinople), imperial entrance gate of city of Constantinople, present-day Istanbul, Turkey
• Golden Gate (Jerusalem), in Israel
• Golden Gate (Kiev), a historic gatetower in the Ukraine
  • also the name for the nearby Kiev Metro station; see Zoloti Vorota (Kiev Metro)
• Golden Gate (Vladimir) (Zolotye Vorota), the main gate for the city of Vladimir (Russia) from 1158 to 1164
• Golden Gate (Gdańsk), in Poland

[edit] Topography of San Francisco

• The Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean in the United States, named after the Golden Gate (Latin: Porta Aurea, Greek: Χρυσή Πύλη, Chrysē Pylē) of Constantinople (now Istanbul), and also after the Golden Horn, an estuary on the Bosphorus in Istanbul
• The Golden Gate Bridge, which extends across the Golden Gate strait
• Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
• Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a national park in the San Francisco Bay Area

[edit] Related uses

• Golden Gate, Oakland, California, a neighborhood
• Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California
• Golden Gate Capital Partners, a private equity buyout firm headquartered in San Francisco, California
• Golden Gate Transit, a bus and ferry operator centered on Marin County, California

[edit] Other places

• Golden Gate, Florida, in the United States
• Golden Gate, Illinois, in the United States
• Golden Gate Highlands National Park, in South Africa

[edit] Entertainment

• The Golden Gate Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
• The Golden Gate Quartet, a gospel quartet founded 1934 in Norfolk, Virginia

[edit] Novels

• The Golden Gate (novel), by Vikram Seth, written entirely in Onegin stanzas
• The Golden Gate (MacLean novel), by Alistair MacLean

[edit] Films and television

• Golden Gate (film), a 1994 film directed by John Madden, starring Matt Dillon and Joan Chen
  • Golden Gate (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 1994 film
• Golden Gate (1994 film), a 1994 TV movie starring David James Elliott and Christopher Meloni
• Golden Gate (television), a Slovak television show

[edit] Other uses

• The Golden Gate (passenger train), a named passenger train operated by the Santa Fe railroad, starting in 1938
• École Golden Gate Middle School, a bilingual middle school in Winnipeg, Manitoba