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San Miniato al Monte
San Miniato al Monte, a Florentine Romanesque Benedictine abbey basilica begun 1013/1018 by Bishop Ildebrando on Mons Florentinus, with raised chancel over a crypt, green-and-white marble façade, 1297 apse mosaic, and Michelangelo's 1530 wool-bale bell tower protection.
San Nicola in Carcere
San Nicola in Carcere, meaning St Nicholas in Prison, is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, built over three ancient Republican temples.
San Nicolás Agreement
The San Nicolás Agreement (Acuerdo de San Nicolás) was an 1852 pact of Argentine provincial governors, convoked by Justo José de Urquiza, that laid the basis for the 1853 Constitution.
San Nicolás de los Garza
San Nicolás de los Garza, a municipality of Nuevo León in the Monterrey metropolitan area, Mexico; created 16 December 1830; 412,199 residents in 2020, almost fully urbanized, metal-industry economy.
San Nicolas Island
San Nicolas Island (Tongva: Haraasnga) is the most remote of California's eight Channel Islands, Navy-owned and closed to the public. Home of the Nicoleño people and the Lone Woman who inspired Island of the Blue Dolphins.
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a permanently shut down nuclear power plant on the Pacific coast in San Diego County, California, retired in 2013.
San oral poetry
San oral poetry is the sung and spoken verbal art of the San peoples of southern Africa; its most documented body is ǀXam songs collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd.
San Pablo, Calabarzon
San Pablo (City of San Pablo), a first-class component city in Laguna province, Calabarzon, Philippines; population 300,166 (2024); famed for its seven volcanic crater lakes, coconut-era heritage, and Jose Rizal Avenue heritage zone.
San Pancrazio al Fango
San Pancrazio al Fango is a ruined 12th-century Tuscan abbey on Isola Clodia near Ponti di Badia, Grosseto, in the Diaccia Botrona reserve, built on an island of the ancient Lake Prile over Roman villa remains.
San Pawl Milqi Roman Villa
San Pawl Milqi is Malta's most extensive Roman agricultural villa, at Burmarrad, traditionally where Publius welcomed St Paul c. AD 60, a Punic-to-Arab oil-production site excavated 1963-1968.
San Pedro Arroyo Formation
San Pedro Arroyo Formation: Upper Triassic (late Carnian, Adamanian) mudstone unit of the Chinle Group in central and southern New Mexico, named by Lucas in 1991; up to 123 m thick, with Araya Well, Ojo Huelos, and Cañon Agua Buena members and a lacustrine limestone marker bed.
San Pedro de Arlanza
San Pedro de Arlanza is a ruined Benedictine monastery near Covarrubias in Burgos, Spain, traditionally founded in 912 and chosen as the burial place of Count Fernán González.
San Pedro de Cardeña
San Pedro de Cardeña is a Cistercian abbey near Burgos, Spain, first recorded in 902 and known for its 200 martyred monks and the tomb of El Cid.
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
San Pedro de la Roca Castle, known in Cuba as El Morro, is a stone fortress built into a promontory guarding Santiago de Cuba Bay since 1638.
San Pedro de Macorís (city)
San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic port city and provincial capital on the Higuamo river; sugar metropolis of the late 1800s, Maritime District 1882, province 1907, home of the Guloya dance and over 100 MLB players.
San Pedro de Macorís (district)
San Pedro de Macorís is a district and provincial capital on the southeastern Caribbean coast of the Dominican Republic, known for its sugar port history and baseball.
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula, founded 1536 by Pedro de Alvarado as San Pedro de Puerto Caballos, is Honduras's second largest city and industrial capital in the Sula Valley, Cortés Department, near Puerto Cortés.
San Pedro-Pellado
San Pedro-Pellado (also San Pedro-Tatara) is a Chilean volcanic complex in the Southern Andean Volcanic Arc, built inside the 6 x 12 km Río Colorado caldera; Pellado, Tatara, and 3,621-m San Pedro stratovolcano, no historical eruptions, fumaroles SE of Pellado.
San Pedro, Calabarzon
San Pedro (Lungsod ng San Pedro) is a first-income-class component city in Laguna, CALABARZON, Philippines, just south of Metro Manila. 348,968 residents (2024), 27 barangays, 24.05 km², cityhood by RA 10420 in 2013, known for sampaguita and the SAPAL Cooperative.
San Pedro, Los Angeles
San Pedro is a Los Angeles harbor-area community and home of the Port of Los Angeles; an independent city from 1888, annexed in 1909 after the 1897 Free Harbor Fight made San Pedro Bay the official port.
San people
The San are the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, also once called Bushmen, known for click languages, ancient rock art, and marginalized modern livelihoods across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
San Pietro di Cantoni Italic sanctuary
San Pietro di Cantoni (Santuario italico di San Pietro di Cantoni) is a Samnite-era extra-urban sanctuary near Sepino, Molise, dedicated to Mefitis, active from the 4th century BC to the 7th century AD, later a Christian church.
San Pietro in Montorio
San Pietro in Montorio is a Renaissance church on the Janiculum hill in Rome, built on the traditional site of Saint Peter's crucifixion and consecrated in 1500.
San Pietro in Vincoli
San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) is a Roman minor basilica housing St. Peter's chains and Michelangelo's Moses from the tomb of Pope Julius II.
San Rafael Swell
The San Rafael Swell is a 75-mile-long anticline of eroded sandstone in central Utah; about 217,000 acres are the BLM-managed San Rafael Swell Recreation Area, formed during the Laramide orogeny and known for the San Rafael Reef, slot canyons, and the Wedge Overlook.
San Rafael, California
San Rafael is the county seat and largest city of Marin County, California, on San Pablo Bay about 18 miles north of San Francisco, grown from Mission San Rafael Arcángel (1817) with about 60,000 residents.
San Ramon, California
San Ramon is a charter city in Contra Costa County, California, incorporated July 1, 1983, with 84,605 residents (2020 census), known for the 585-acre Bishop Ranch office park and 59 city parks.
San Rocco (magazine)
San Rocco was an Italian independent magazine about architecture, published in English from 2010 to 2019 and known for monothematic issues with black axonometric covers.
San rock art
San rock art is the paintings and engravings made by the San hunter-gatherers of southern Africa over thousands of years, with about 15,000 known sites.
San rock art of the Drakensberg
The San rock art of the Drakensberg is a corpus of thousands of hunter-gatherer rock paintings in the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains, made by San communities over more than four millennia.