Golden Gate (disambiguation)

Golden Gate (disambiguation)

Golden Gate can refer to:

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

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

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

Other places

United States

*Golden Gate, Florida, a CDP in Collier County, Florida
* Golden Gate, Martin County, Florida, an unincorporated community and the location of the historic Golden Gate Building built in 1925.
*Golden Gate, Illinois

outh Africa

*Golden Gate Highlands National Park, in South Africa

Entertainment

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

Novels

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

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

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


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