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FIPS code. 06-72576. GNIS feature IDs. 1661468, 2411925. Website. www .cityofsolvang .com. Solvang ( / ˈsɒlvæŋ /; [ 8] Danish for "sunny field") is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is located in the Santa Ynez Valley. The population was 6,126 at the 2020 census, up from 5,245 at the 2010 census.
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Santa Catalina Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Catalina; often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina, and also known as Pimu as the traditional name of the Indigenous people of the Tongva Tribe) is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands (California), off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island covers an ...
Solvang, California. Solvang is a Danish village hidden in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. Its Main Street district is filled with boutique shops, traditional Danish bakeries, and wine ...
Monty Roberts. Marvin Earl "Monty" Roberts MVO (born May 14, 1935) is an American horse trainer who promotes his techniques of natural horsemanship through his Join-Up International organization, named after the core concept of his training method. Roberts believes that horses use a non-verbal language, which he terms "Equus," and that humans ...
From 1513 onward, the land became known as La Florida. After 1630, and throughout the 18th century, Tegesta (after the Tequesta tribe) was an alternate name of choice for the Florida peninsula following publication of a map by the Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz in Joannes de Laet's History of the New World. [22] [23] [24]
The Danish-American community of Solvang, located in the heart of Santa Barbara County’s wine country, is famous for pastries, windmills and a Little Mermaid statue like the one in Copenhagen.
Area. 2,700 acres (1,100 ha) Neverland Ranch gates. Sycamore Valley Ranch, [ 1] formerly Neverland Ranch[ 2] or Neverland Valley Ranch, is a developed property in Santa Barbara County, California, near Los Olivos, California, on the edge of Los Padres National Forest. From 1988 to 2005, it was the home and private amusement park of the American ...