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Forum antique de Bavay
Forum antique de Bavay: the Roman forum of Bagacum, capital of the Nervians' civitas in Gallia Belgica, northern France. Largest forum known in Gaul (230 x 100 m), later a late-Roman fortified enclosure, now a site museum.
Forum Appii
Forum Appii (Φόρον Ἀππίου), a Roman town 43 miles from Rome on the Via Appia in the Pontine Marshes, canal station toward Tarracina, where Paul was met by Roman believers (Acts 28:15), near modern Borgo Faiti.
Forum Boarium
Forum Boarium: ancient Rome's cattle market between the Capitoline, Palatine, and Aventine hills by the Tiber, home to the Temple of Hercules Victor, Temple of Portunus, the Ara Maxima, and the Sant'Omobono sanctuary.
Forum Domitii
Forum Domitii, a Roman road station and market on the Via Domitia in Gallia Narbonensis, sited at Montbazin (Hérault, France) between Cessero and Sextantio; a mutatio of the cursus publicus, attributed to Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, with finds from 60 BC to about 400 AD.
Forum granary
Forum granary (Granai del Foro, VII.7.29), Pompeii market building for grain and pulses, built after the AD 62 earthquake, excavated early 1800s, now an open-air depot of over 9,000 artefacts.
Forum Holitorium
Forum Holitorium (Foro Olitorio), ancient Rome's vegetable market near the Tiber river port outside the porta Carmentalis; held four Republican temples (Janus, Spes, Juno Sospita, Pietas), three now embedded in San Nicola in Carcere.
Forum Ligneum
Forum Ligneum, a Roman road station and timber-market forum in the western Pyrenees on the Caesaraugusta-Beneharnum road, traditionally identified with Lescun or Urdos, France.
Forum Voconii
Forum Voconii, also Forum Voconi, was a Roman road station and secondary settlement on the Via Aurelia in Var, France, at Les Blaïs near Le Cannet-des-Maures, first attested in Cicero's letters and identified through excavations in 1999-2001.
Foshan Amusement Park Recreation Center
Foshan Amusement Park Recreation Center (佛山乐园) is a Chancheng District, Foshan amusement park opened 1984-1986, closed 2019, reopened October 1, 2022; free entry, pay-per-ride, Ferris wheel and small train retained.
Fossa Augusta
Fossa Augusta: Roman navigable canal ordered by Emperor Augustus connecting Ravenna and its port of Classe to a Po delta branch (the Padusa, formerly Messanicus), distinct from the Aqua Augusta aqueduct near Naples.
Fossa Regia
Fossa Regia, the 'royal ditch': Roman boundary trench traced by Scipio Aemilianus in 146 BCE from Thabraca to Hadrumetum or Thenae, separating Africa Vetus from Numidia and later dividing Africa Vetus from Africa Nova.
Fossa Traiana
Fossa Traiana, Canale di Fiumicino, artificial canal at Portus, Rome's imperial harbour, linking the Claudian and Trajanic basins with the Tiber and the sea; built for flood relief, it created the Isola Sacra and survives as a navigable waterway.
Fossae Marianae
Fossae Marianae (Fossa Mariana), the canal of Marius dug about 102 BC in the Rhône delta, and the Roman port of Fos at its mouth, Arles' maritime outport, active from the late 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.
Fossae Papirianae
Fossae Papirianae (Φόσσαι Παπιριαναί) were Roman drainage or navigable ditches near Massarosa/Massaciuccoli, Tuscany, giving their name to a road station on the Via Aemilia Scauri between Pisa and Luna, near Viareggio.
Fossatum Africae
Fossatum Africae, the "African ditch": a Roman linear frontier structure (limes) in Algeria and Tunisia, claimed over 750 km, a ditch with embankments, watchtowers and castella, begun probably under Hadrian (after 122) and abandoned around 430-440.
Fosse Way
Fosse Way: Roman road in Britain running from Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia), established by 47 AD as a frontier service road, passing Leicester, Bath, and Cirencester.
Fossil Cycad National Monument
Fossil Cycad National Monument, abolished 1957, was a 320-acre NPS unit near Hot Springs, South Dakota, protecting Cretaceous cycadeoid (Bennettitales) fossils; over-collecting left it fossil-free.
Fossis
Fossis, also Mansio Fossis, was a Roman road station and small harbor on the coastal via Popillia, identified with Corte Cavanella in Loreo, Italy, active from the 1st to the 5th century AD.
Foundation Stone (אבן השתייה)
Foundation Stone (אבן השתייה, Even ha-Shetiyah), also called Even Shetiyah, is the rabbinic stone of the Jerusalem Temple's Holy of Holies, first named in Mishnah Yoma 5:2, later mythologized as the world's foundation and traditionally identified with the bedrock under Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock.
Fountain of Anna Perenna
Fountain of Anna Perenna (Fonte di Anna Perenna): Roman spring sanctuary at Piazza Euclide, Rome, found in 1999; dedicated to Anna Perenna's nymphs, later used for magic, with defixiones, wax figurines, and a copper potion pot.
Four Corners Monument
Four Corners Monument marks the only point where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet, set by surveyor Chandler Robbins in 1875 at 37°N, 109°03′W; NGS affirmed its 2009 location controversy was overstated.
Fragrances and Colours Garden
Fragrances and Colours Garden (Geuren- en kleurentuin, Jardin des senteurs et des couleurs) is a fenced thematic garden at Plantentuin Meise, Belgium, opened 2020, growing plants used for perfumes and dyes, with a katsura scent tunnel smelling of fresh biscuits.
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro (Misiones franciscanas de la Sierra Gorda): five 18th-century Franciscan mission churches in Querétaro, Mexico, led by Junípero Serra, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003 under criteria (ii) and (iii).
François Tomb
François Tomb (Tomba François), an Etruscan painted burial chamber of the Saties family at Vulci's Ponte Rotto necropolis, carved in tuff c. 340–320 BCE, discovered 1857 by Alessandro François; frescoes of Vel Saties, Mastarna, and Achilles entered Villa Giulia in 2026.
Franconia Notch State Park
Franconia Notch State Park is a New Hampshire state park in the White Mountains along I-93, between the Kinsman and Franconia ranges, home of the Old Man of the Mountain (collapsed 2003), Flume Gorge, Echo Lake, Cannon Mountain, and Lafayette Place Campground.
Frank Erwin Center
Frank Erwin Center, nicknamed the Drum, was UT Austin's 1977 multipurpose arena and Longhorn basketball home until 2022; demolished 2024 after Moody Center replaced it.
Franks Roman villa
Franks Roman villa (Franks Hall Roman villa), Farningham, Kent: scheduled minor Romano-British villa on the River Darent, 29 m by 19.4 m with wings, hypocaust, occupied 1st-5th century AD, over Iron Age farmstead remains.
Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape
The Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Uruguay preserving the buildings and port of a meat-processing complex that operated from 1859 until 1979.
Free State National Botanical Garden
Free State National Botanical Garden, Bloemfontein, South Africa: SANBI-managed 70-hectare conservation garden, proclaimed 1967, opened 1969, with about 400 plant species, Grassland and Nama Karoo vegetation, and a National Monument listing.
Freedom Trail
The Freedom Trail is a 2.5-mile red-lined walking route in Boston connecting 16 Revolutionary-era historic sites from Boston Common to Bunker Hill. Conceived in 1951 by Bill Schofield and Bob Winn, dedicated by Mayor John Hynes, managed with the Freedom Trail Foundation and Boston National Historical Park.