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Santa Maria in Cosmedin
Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, formerly Sancta Maria in Schola Graeca) is a Roman minor basilica at Piazza della Bocca della Verità, founded in the 6th century, enlarged by Pope Adrian I in 782 over the Ara Maxima Herculis, and housing the Bocca della Verità.
Santa Maria in Domnica
Santa Maria in Domnica (Santa Maria alla Navicella), minor basilica and titular church on Rome's Caelian Hill; 7th-century diaconia rebuilt by Paschal I (817-824), noted for its 9th-century apse mosaic and Sansovino's 1513 portico.
Santa Maria in Legarano
Santa Maria in Legarano, a church in Legarano frazione near Casperia, Rieti, Lazio, built on the ruins of a Roman villa; parish until 1409, with Torresani 1561 Last Judgment fresco, closed after the 2016 earthquake.
Santa Maria in Portuno
Santa Maria in Portuno (Madonna del Piano), a medieval church and archaeological site at Corinaldo, Ancona, Marche, over a Roman brick-and-ceramics production quarter near a ford on the Cesano; monastery documented from 1090.
Santa María la Antigua del Darién
Santa María la Antigua del Darién (1510–1524) was the first Spanish city on the American mainland, in Unguía, Chocó, Colombia; founded on an indigenous village by Enciso and Balboa, re-founded by Pedrarias, burned in 1524, and excavated since 2013.
Santa María la Blanca, Toledo
Santa María la Blanca is a former synagogue in the old Jewish quarter of Toledo, Spain, built around 1180 and converted into a church in the early 1400s.
Santa Maria Maggiore
Santa Maria Maggiore, or Saint Mary Major, is a papal major basilica on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, built between 432 and 440 under Pope Sixtus III.
Santa Maria Novella
Santa Maria Novella is a Dominican basilica in Florence, begun in the late 13th century and fronted by a Renaissance facade designed by Leon Battista Alberti.
Santa María Rupes
Santa María Rupes is a 227 km lobate scarp near Mercury's equator, a thrust-fault cliff from global contraction, 700 m relief, IAU-named 1976 for Columbus's 1492 flagship.
Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a large Gothic basilica in Rome's Piazza della Minerva, built over an ancient temple site and housing Michelangelo's Cristo della Minerva.
Santa Maria, California
Santa Maria is the largest city in Santa Barbara County, California, incorporated in 1905, with about 110,000 residents, a Latino-majority population, an agricultural and oil-based economy, and a 2045 general plan for 16,000 new homes.
Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul
Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: central-region municipality, home of UFSM (first federal university in the interior), major military contingent, historic Gare railway station, and 2024 flood resettlement.
Santa Marta
Santa Marta, Colombia's oldest surviving city (founded 29 July 1525 by Rodrigo de Bastidas), capital of Magdalena department, a Caribbean port and tourist city at the foot of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, marking its 500th anniversary in 2025.
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College (SMC) is a public community college in Santa Monica, California, founded in 1929. It leads all California community colleges in UC transfers for 34 consecutive years and offers over 200 degrees plus two bachelor's programs.
Santa Monica High School
Santa Monica High School (Samohi) is a public grades 9-12 high school at 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, California, in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. About 2,588 students; 83% reading and 57% math proficiency; Niche A+; Vikings athletics.
Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier, opened September 9, 1909 as the first concrete pier on the West Coast, originally built to carry sewage out to sea; now an amusement destination with Pacific Park, the Looff Hippodrome carousel, and fishing.
Santa Monica Studio
Santa Monica Studio, also known as Sony Santa Monica, is an American Sony-owned video game studio founded in 1999 and best known for the God of War franchise.
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California: beachside city of 8.3 square miles in Los Angeles County, founded 1875 by Jones and Baker, incorporated 1886; about 90,000 residents, Santa Monica Pier, Silicon Beach economy, and 8 million annual tourists.
Santa Montefiore
Santa Montefiore (born 1970), born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, British romantic novelist, wife of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore; author of over thirty novels including the Deverill Chronicles and Timeslider series, with 8 million copies sold.
Santa Muerte
Santa Muerte, also called La Santísima Muerte or Holy Death, is a robed female skeleton folk saint venerated mainly in Mexico and the United States.
Santa Park
SantaPark, the Home Cavern of Santa Claus, is an underground Christmas theme park in a 50-metre-deep cavern on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland. Opened 1998; winter season late October to January; tickets from 42 euro.
Santa Rita Corozal
Santa Rita Corozal, known anciently as Chactemal, is a Maya archaeological site beneath Corozal Town in northern Belize, capital of the Chetumal Province in the Late Postclassic period.
Santa Rita power station (Philippines)
The Santa Rita power station is a 1,000 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Batangas City, Philippines, the country's first, run by First Gas Power Corporation.
Santa Rosa County
Santa Rosa County, Florida: Panhandle county established 1842 from Escambia County, seat Milton, part of the Pensacola metro. Population 211,115 (2025), fast-growing on domestic migration; economy built on military, tourism, agriculture.
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa, California: largest city in Sonoma County (pop. about 179,000), 55 miles north of San Francisco; incorporated 1868; home of Luther Burbank and Charles Schulz; rebuilt rapidly after the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
Santa Rosa, Laguna
Santa Rosa, Laguna: a first-class component city in the Philippines, 40 km south of Metro Manila, 18 barangays, 414,812 people (2020), industrial estates, Nuvali, and Laguna de Bay shoreline.
Santa Sabina
Santa Sabina is a Mexican rock band formed in 1989 in Mexico City, led by vocalist Rita Guerrero and known for its gothic, funk, and jazz hybrid.
Santa Sangre
Santa Sangre (Holy Blood) is Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1989 Italian-Mexican surrealist horror film about Fenix, a circus performer who becomes his armless mother's arms in a murder spree; shown at Cannes 1989, based on killer Goyo Cardenas.
Santa Savinilla catacomb
Santa Savinilla catacomb (Catacomba di Santa Savinilla), Early Christian tuff catacomb in Nepi, Viterbo, Lazio, named after matron Savinilla, burying martyrs Tolomeo and Romano; over 1,000 tombs, used 4th to 5th century, 14th-century fresco.
Santa Sofia
Santa Sofia, Italian for Holy Wisdom, is the name of several historic churches dedicated to Christ as divine Wisdom, most famously Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.