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Villajoyosa, Alicante, Spain



Villajoyosa is a coastal town and municipality in the Province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. The town is known to the locals simply as La Vila.
It is the historic and administrative capital of the comarca of Marina Baixa and is located 32 km from the city of Alicante, in the coastal area known as Costa Blanca (White Coast). La Vila Joiosa literally means Joyful Town, although the inhabitants often abbreviate it to La Vila. It has over three kilometers of beaches, including La Platja Centre (Central Beach), close to the city centre. The river Amadori runs through La Vila.
The area is famous for its chocolate industry and tourism. One of the most popular tourist attractions is its Gothic Catholic church of the Assumption, with a Baroque altar piece. Another popular destination, the Royal Palm Casino (formerly Casino Costa Blanca), is now closed. The town's festival of Moros i cristians, celebrated at the end of July, was declared an International Tourist Interest Festival.

Glass Beach, California


Glass Shoreline is a shoreline in MacKerricher State Park close Fortification Bragg, California that is copious in ocean glass made from years of dumping trash into a zone of coastline close to the northern part of the town. In 1906, Post Bragg occupants set up an official water dump site behind theUnion Lumber Organization onto what is currently known as "Site 1". Most water fronted groups had water dump locales tossing glass, apparatuses, and even vehicles. Local people alluded to it as "The Dumps." Flames were frequently lit to decrease the measure of the junk heap. At the point when the first dump site filled in 1943, the site was moved to what is presently known as "Site 2", the dynamic dump site from 1943 until 1949. At the point when this shoreline filled in 1949, the landfill was moved north to what is currently known as "Glass Shoreline", which remained a dynamic dump site until 1967.

GOA


Goa  is a state located in the West India region of the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast. It is India's smallest state by area and thefourth smallest by population. Goa is India's richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole.