Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace has a number of meanings:

The Crystal Palace was a Victorian iron and glass building, originally in Hyde Park, London for the Great Exhibition, and subsequently rebuilt in south London. It was destroyed by fire in 1936.

Crystal Palace, London is an area near which the second building was located.

Crystal Palace Football Club played at The Crystal Palace until 1915, but now plays at nearby Selhurst Park.

Crystal Palace National Sports Centre sits near the south London location of the original Palace, within Crystal Palace Park.

Crystal Palace was the name of the dance hall in San Antonio, New Mexico some decades ago; it is now the residence of James Bond, a real person.

Crystal palace is also sometimes used as a mildly derogatory term for any structure that is pompously impressive from the outside, but not necessarily so functionally useful as might have been hoped.

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