Solvang
Solvang is in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County in Southern California. The city is Danish-themed as if it were the Danishland section of Disneyland, since it was founded by Danish immigrants and quite a few Danish descendants live here.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Merholz, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Annette Teng, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 5,840 residents
- Description: city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Solvang, CA” and “Solvang, California”
- Postal codes: 93463 and 93464
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mission Santa Inés and Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum.
Mission Santa Inés
Museum
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mission Santa Inés was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome. Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point…
Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum
Museum
Photo: DocFreeman24, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum is a 'Collector's Collection' museum in Solvang, California, United States. The museum was founded in March 2000 by Virgil Elings, a local retiree and a collector of motorcycles.
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital
Hospital
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital is a hospital in the city of Solvang, California. It is owned and operated by Cottage Health. The hospital was featured briefly in a scene of the 2004 film Sideways.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buellton and Santa Ynez.
Buellton
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buellton is in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County in Southern California. Located where US Route 101 crosses the otherwise inaccessible Santa Ynez Valley, most travellers to the wineries of the valley pass through Buellton. Solvang and Santa Ynez are nearby, also on Highway 246, and Los Olivos is another nearby city in the valley.
Santa Ynez
Photo: Thomas Camargo, CC BY 3.0.
Santa Ynez is a small community in the Santa Ynez Valley winery region of Santa Barbara County in Southern California. It's in a valley of small towns, rolling hills, majestic oaks and friendly people.
Ballard
Village
Ballard is an unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County, California. Ballard is the smallest and oldest community in the Santa Ynez Valley. The nearest city is Solvang. Ballard is situated 3 miles northeast of Solvang.
Solvang
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city, and locality
- Location: Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.5961° or 34° 35′ 46″ northLongitude
-120.1384° or 120° 8′ 18″ westPopulation
5,840Elevation
505 feet (154 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OLGOpen location code
846XHVW6+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2657959072OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Solvang” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Solvang”
- Arabic: “سولفانغ”
- Armenian: “Սոլվանգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Solvanq”
- Basque: “Solvang”
- Belarusian: “Солванг”
- Bulgarian: “Солвенг”
- Catalan: “Solvang”
- Cebuano: “Solvang”
- Central Kurdish: “سۆلڤانگ، کالیفۆرنیا”
- Chechen: “Солванг”
- Chinese: “Solvang”
- Chinese: “索夫昂”
- Croatian: “Solvang (Kalifornija)”
- Croatian: “Solvang”
- Danish: “Solvang”
- Dutch: “Solvang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سولفانج”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سولڤانج”
- Esperanto: “Solvang”
- Estonian: “Solvang”
- Finnish: “Solvang”
- French: “Solvang”
- Galician: “Solvang”
- German: “Solvang”
- Gilaki: “سولوانگ”
- Haitian: “Solvang, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Solvang”
- Hebrew: “סולבנג”
- Hungarian: “Solvang”
- Irish: “Solvang”
- Italian: “Solvang”
- Japanese: “ソルバング”
- Korean: “솔뱅”
- Ladin: “Solvang”
- Luxembourgish: “Solvang”
- Malagasy: “Solvang, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Solvang”
- Mazanderani: “سولوانگ (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “سولوانگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Solvang”
- Newari: “सोल्भ्यांग, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “सोल्भ्यांग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Solvang”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Solvang i California”
- Norwegian: “Solvang”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Solfang”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sunnafeld on Californie”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sunnafeld”
- Persian: “سولوانگ، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “سولوانگ”
- Polish: “Solvang”
- Portuguese: “Solvang”
- Russian: “Солванг (Калифорния)”
- Russian: “Солванг”
- Serbian: “Solvang”
- Serbian: “Солванг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Solvang, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Solvang”
- South Azerbaijani: “سولوانق، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Solvang (California)”
- Spanish: “Solvang”
- Swedish: “Solvang”
- Tagalog: “Solvang, California”
- Tagalog: “Solvang”
- Tatar: “Солванг”
- Turkish: “Solvang, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Solvang”
- Ukrainian: “Солванг”
- Urdu: “سولوانگ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “Solvang”
- Waray (Philippines): “Solvang, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Solvang”
- Western Frisian: “Solvang”
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