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The Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso (Spanish: Palacio Real de La Granja de San Ildefonso), known as La Granja, is an early 18th-century palace in the small town of San Ildefonso, located in the hills near Segovia and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Madrid, within the Province of Segovia in central Spain.
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey.Lucy was built with the purpose of promoting real estate sales and attracting tourists to the area.
La Granja (Spanish for "the farm", cf. grange, monastic grange) may refer to: La Granja, Chile, a commune in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region La Granja metro station (Santiago) La Granja, Spain, a municipality of Cáceres province; Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain La Granja de San Ildefonso, the town connected ...
Dreamland Margate is an amusement park and entertainment centre based on a traditional English seaside funfair located in Margate, Kent, England.The site of the park was first used for amusement rides in 1880, although the Dreamland name was not used until 1920 when the park's Grade II* listed (particularly significant building of more than local interest) Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster ...
The dome inside the Shell Grotto. The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway shell grotto in Margate, Kent, England.Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totalling about 2,000 square feet (190 m 2) of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells.
Margate is an unparished area with charter trustees. In 2021 there was a proposal to convert the unparished area into a civil parish and replace the charter trustees with a town council. [7] Since 2024, the Member of Parliament for East Thanet has been the Labour MP, Polly Billington. Margate was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857.
Margate City is a city situated on the Jersey Shore on Absecon Island, within Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Atlantic Ocean shoreline.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 5,317, [11] [12] a decrease of 1,037 (−16.3%) from the 2010 census count of 6,354, [21] [22] which in turn had reflected a decline of 1,839 (−22.4%) from the 8,193 ...
Margate is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city of Margate is part of the Miami metropolitan area . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 58,712.