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Greek theater of Taormina
The Greek theater of Taormina (Teatro Antico di Taormina) is an ancient theater in Taormina, Sicily, built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC and rebuilt by the Romans.
Green belt
Green belt: designated open land around towns and cities protected by planning policy to prevent urban sprawl, most developed in England (1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of land). Covers NPPF purposes, 1938 Act and 1955 Circular history, grey belt and Golden Rules reforms, and effects on sprawl and housing prices.
Green belt (United Kingdom)
Green belt (UK): designated open land around English cities protected by NPPF chapter 13 to prevent urban sprawl; about 1,633,220 hectares, 12.5% of England, with five purposes, grey belt classification, and Golden Rules for released land.
Green corridor
Green corridor: a vegetated linear strip connecting fragmented natural or urban green areas, also called ecological corridor or greenway; defined by IUCN/UNEP-WCMC, modeled with least-cost and MSPA/MCR methods, providing conduit, habitat, and urban heat and biodiversity benefits.
Green Khutors of Tavria
Зелені Хутори Таврії (Green Khutors of Tavria), an open-air historical-entertainment complex and eco-park near Kardashynka, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine; over 100 ha, 40+ recreated khutirs, founded 2009, occupied since 2022.
Green Land (Egypt)
Green Land (جرين لاند) names several unrelated Egyptian entities: a family amusement park in New Faiyum, a Green Land Development residential compound in 6th of October City, a Nasr City exhibitions company, and a Cairo-area neighborhood.
Green space
Green space: vegetated urban land such as parks, urban forests, gardens, and street trees, linked to mental, physical, and social health benefits, climate cooling, and biodiversity, with unequal global access.
Green World Ecological Farm
Green World Ecological Farm (綠世界生態農場) is a 75-hectare ecological farm opened in 2004 in Beipu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, with six theme parks, 46-47 scenic spots, over 500 water plant species, and daily animal shows.
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 1838, a National Historic Landmark since 2006 with over 570,000 interments and a new Green-House visitor center opened in 2026.
Greensboro Complex
Greensboro Complex (formerly Greensboro Coliseum Complex) is a nine-venue city events facility at 1921 West Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC, anchored by the 22,000-seat First Horizon Coliseum, host of a record 29 ACC men's basketball tournaments and over 1,100 events yearly.
Greenway Estate
Greenway Estate, also called Greenway House, is a Grade II Georgian country house and Grade II registered garden on the River Dart in Devon, bought by Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan in 1938 and now a National Trust property.
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park, London's oldest and smallest Royal Park (183 acres), enclosed 1433 by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, laid out in the 1660s with André Le Nôtre, home of the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian.
Greenwood Family Park
GreenWood Family Park (GreenWood Forest Park, GreenWood Centre) is an eco-adventure park in Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, North Wales, opened 24 May 1993, home to the world's only people-powered roller coaster and the UK's first solar-powered water ride.
Gremoulias ancient sanctuary
Gremoulias ancient sanctuary: an Arcadian sanctuary on the Gremoulias saddle 3.5 km NE of Kalavryta, with an Archaic limestone temple overlain by a Doric poros temple (cella 6.60 m wide); deity unidentified, cult from the Geometric period.
Greolieres Roman Milestone
The Greolieres Roman Milestone is a Roman milestone in Gréolières, Alpes-Maritimes, France, marking the Roman road from Vence to Castellane; its inscription honors the emperor Caracalla, dated around 213.
Gresia
Gresia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania, site of a Roman castellum (RAN 154442.01) and a Limes Transalutanus earth rampart (RAN 154442.02), first half of the 3rd century AD.
Greta Bridge (United Kingdom)
Greta Bridge, County Durham: Roman auxiliary fort, vicus and road on the Stainmore route (Scotch Corner–Carlisle, modern A66). Scheduled 1929; fort 140 by 95 m; Severan inscription 205–208; vicus excavated 1972–4 (Casey and Hoffmann, Britannia 1998).
Greta Farm
Greta Farm (เกรต้าฟาร์ม) is a farm-themed resort, restaurant, event venue, and six-court tennis center in Na Chom Thian, Sattahip, Chonburi, Thailand, run by Greta Farm Company Limited, registered 2013 with 5,000,000 baht capital.
Grevena - Kozani UNESCO Global Geopark
Grevena - Kozani UNESCO Global Geopark (Γεωπάρκο Γρεβενών – Κοζάνης) is a UNESCO Global Geopark in West Macedonia, Greece, designated in 2021 and known for the Vourinos ophiolite.
Grey Friars
Grey Friars, Lichfield: scheduled monument (list entry 1008544) of a Franciscan friary founded c.1237 by Bishop Alexander de Stavensby, burned 1291, rebuilt, dissolved 1538; survives as buried remains beneath a public garden.
Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby was a 19th-century Edinburgh terrier said to have guarded his master John Gray's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard from 1858 until 1872, commemorated by a bronze statue.
Griffith Park
Griffith Park, Los Angeles: roughly 4,200-4,500-acre urban wilderness park in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, donated by Griffith J. Griffith in 1896; home to Griffith Observatory, LA Zoo, Greek Theatre; about 10 million visitors yearly.
Grimde
Grimde, hamlet in Tienen, Belgium (Drie Tommen), site of three Gallo-Roman tumuli of the 2nd century AD, about 30 m wide and over 10 m high, the grave monument of Marcus Probius Burrus, excavated by baron De Loë in 1892.
Grimsbury Castle (United Kingdom)
Grimsbury Castle, also Grimsbury Camp, is an Iron Age slight univallate hillfort of 3.2 ha on a spur near Hermitage, West Berkshire, a scheduled monument with 2 m earthworks, a western outwork, and sparse Early Iron Age finds.
Grimscar Roman tilery (United Kingdom)
Grimscar (Grimescar) Roman tilery, a scheduled monument near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: a first/early second-century AD military tile and pottery works run by the Fourth Cohort of the Breuci, supplying Slack Roman fort.
Grinnes
Grinnes (Grinnibus on the Tabula Peutingeriana), a Roman fort in Germania Inferior on the Waal, mentioned by Tacitus (Hist. 5.20) in the Batavian revolt of 70 CE; perhaps at Rossum, Netherlands, but the fort has never been found.
Grodno City Amusement Park
Гродзенскі парк забаў (Grodno City Amusement Park, Park Zhiliber) is a year-round amusement park in Grodno, Belarus: 15 rides on 5,000 m², up to a million visitors yearly, rides 3.5–7.5 rubles, with a pneumatic drop tower planned for the city's 2028 900th anniversary.
Gronowo
Gronowo (German: Gross Grünow), village in Drawsko County, West Pomerania, Poland; site of a major Wielbark culture barrow cemetery of the Roman period, excavated by Wołągiewicz 1973–1976 and published by Machajewski in 2013.
Gros Morne National Park
Gros Morne National Park, a 180,500-hectare UNESCO World Heritage Site on Newfoundland's west coast, exposes the Earth's mantle at the Tablelands, features Gros Morne Mountain (806 m) and Western Brook Pond fjord, and hosts seven enclave communities.
Gross-Gerau
Groß-Gerau (Gross-Gerau), Hesse, Germany: Roman fort and vicus on the right Rhine bank south of the Main; fort Biebelslache c. 40-70 AD, Auf Esch camp village with about 760 graves, and the possibly Roman Landgraben canal.