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Grossprüfening
Grossprüfening (Großprüfening), a district of Regensburg, Bavaria, site of a Roman fortlet, vicus, and 4th-century burgus near the Naab-Danube confluence, possibly ancient Reginum, a UNESCO Danube Limes component.
Grossromstedt
Großromstedt (Grossromstedt), a large Elbe-Germanic cremation cemetery "Die Schanze" near Jena, Thuringia, excavated 1907–1913 with over 600 graves; namesake of the Großromstedt horizon and culture, linked to the Hermunduri.
Großsiedlung Siemensstadt
Großsiedlung Siemensstadt (Ringsiedlung), a 1929–1934 Berlin modernist housing estate by Scharoun, Gropius, Häring, Bartning, Forbat, and Henning under Martin Wagner; 1,379 apartments, ribbon development, UNESCO World Heritage since 2008.
Grosvenor House
Grosvenor House names several buildings: a Grade I 1791 John Eveleigh house in Bath, a Grade II early C18 house in Richmond, a Grade II Westerham house, the former Park Lane mansion now the Grosvenor House Hotel, and a 1960 precast Winnipeg apartment block.
Grotta della Vipera
Grotta della Vipera (Grutta e sa Pibera, Viper's Cave) is a Roman rock-cut tomb in Cagliari, Sardinia, built late 1st-early 2nd century AD by Lucio Cassio Filippo for his wife Atilia Pomptilla, with 16 Latin and Greek inscriptions and two carved snakes on the pediment.
Grotta di Cocceio
Grotta di Cocceio (Grotta della Pace), a Roman tunnel by Lucius Cocceius Auctus, 38-36 BC, cut in Monte Grillo tufa linking Cumae to Lake Averno as part of the Portus Iulius; about 920 m long, damaged in 1943, now a protected bat refuge.
Grotta di Paris
Grotta di Paris, or Nymphaeum of Paris, is a Roman nymphaeum of a 2nd-century BC Republican villa at San Vittorino near Tivoli, Lazio, Italy; a tuff-cut opus incertum fountain hall, not the Paris catacombs or Arcy-sur-Cure caves.
Grotta di Seiano
Grotta di Seiano, also called Grotta di Posillipo, is a roughly 770-meter Roman road tunnel cut in tuff under the Posillipo hill of Naples, built by Cocceius Auctus for Agrippa and named after Sejanus, now the entrance to the Pausilypon archaeological park.
Grotta Oscura
Grotta Oscura, also called Tufo Giallo della Via Tiberina, is a yellow volcanic tuff quarried along the Via Tiberina on Rome's right Tiber bank, used in the Servian Wall, Temple C, and the Lapis Niger cippus.
Grotta Paglicci
Grotta Paglicci (Paglicci Cave), Rignano Garganico, Apulia: major Italian Paleolithic cave with a 12 m sequence from ~200,000 to 11,000 BP, Gravettian burials, Italy's only proven Paleolithic wall paintings, and a 32,600-year-old oat-processing pestle.
Grotta Papale
Grotta Papale is a large Roman villa in the Tivoli territory, Lazio, on two terraces south of via di Pomata, with a late republican and imperial phase, an apsidal nymphaeum giving the modern toponym, and attribution to T. Aelius Ruber.
Grottacce
Grottacce: Roman seaside villa (villa maritima) at Santa Marinella on the Via Aurelia, km 58.200, with 14 vaulted cisterns and a 55 m semicircular fishpond; occupied 1st to 6th century AD; distinct from Le Grottacce near Anzio.
Grottarossa
Grottarossa, an archaeological zone on Rome's northern outskirts at the sixth mile of the via Flaminia, features monumental Roman mausolea, a nymphaeum, and the unique 1964-discovered mummy of a mummified Roman girl aged 7 to 8.
Grotte di Catullo
Grotte di Catullo, Grottoes of Catullus, ruins of a large Augustan-age Roman villa on the tip of the Sirmione peninsula, Lake Garda, Italy; about two hectares, wrongly named for the poet Catullus, with an archaeological museum and ongoing excavations.
Grotte di S. Nicola
Grotte di S. Nicola is a locality in Colli sul Velino, Rieti, Italy, known for the remains of Villa d'Assio, a Roman villa owned by Quintus Axius.
Grotte di Torri
Grotte di Torri, Fara in Sabina (Rieti): archaeological complex of cyclopean polygonal walls, grottoes, and a Roman villa platform, dated to the second half of the 2nd century BC, variously read as villa or sanctuary.
Grotte Scalina
Grotte Scalina (Viterbo, Italy) is a monumental Hellenistic Etruscan rock-cut tomb of about 320 BC near Musarna, with a 14 m three-storey porticoed facade inspired by Macedonian palaces, six-bed banqueting hall, and twin dromoi; rediscovered 1998, excavated 2010-2019.
Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Notre Dame
The Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the University of Notre Dame is a one-seventh-scale replica of the Lourdes shrine, built in 1896 with an endowment from Rev. Thomas Carroll, using farm boulders, and serving as the campus's principal site of Marian devotion.
Groups of bazinas (tumuli)
Groups of bazinas (tumuli): Pleiades place 297479, unnamed pre-Islamic stone tomb groups (bazinas, stepped Berber tumuli) mapped in the Atlas Archéologique southeast of Haraza, Kabylia, Algeria, dated 550 BC to AD 300.
Grubbenvorst-Lottum
Grubbenvorst-Lottum: Pleiades gazetteer ancient place (BAtlas 11 G1) on the Meuse in Dutch Limburg, with prehistoric urnfields, Roman settlement and altar finds at Lottum, and a debated Roman fort.
Grudziądz-Rządz
Grudziądz-Rządz (Rondsen) site 1: Oksywie and Wielbark culture cemetery near Grudziądz, Poland, excavated 1883–1889 by S. Anger; over 1,600 artifacts, mostly lost in World War II.
Grus Monacha
Grus monacha (白头鹤, ナベヅル), the hooded crane, is a small Vulnerable crane of Siberia and northeast China; over 80% winter at Izumi, Japan, with 9,750–13,000 mature individuals.
Grutas del Palacio UNESCO Global Geopark
Grutas del Palacio UNESCO Global Geopark, in Flores, Uruguay, designated 2013 (UNESCO programme 2015), 364,100 ha, 19 geosites; namesake sandstone cave with 2 m columns, Chamangá rock art.
Grutenhäuschen
Grutenhäuschen: partially reconstructed two-story Roman grave temple of the 3rd/4th century in the vineyards near Igel on the Moselle, beside the Roman road from Trier, with a barrel-vaulted burial chamber and sarcophagi below.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park in west Texas, established in 1972, preserving an exposed Permian fossil reef and Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas.
Guangzhou Children's Park
Guangzhou Children's Park (广州市儿童公园) is a free city-run children's park in Baiyun New Town, Guangzhou, China, founded in 1958 and reopened on former Baiyun Airport land in 2014.
Guangzhou CrocoPark
Guangzhou CrocoPark (广州鳄鱼公园) was a crocodile-themed park in Panyu, Guangzhou, China, built by the Chimelong Group and opened in 2004; it was later renamed Chimelong Birds Park (长隆飞鸟乐园).
Guangzhou Junming Paradise
Guangzhou Junming Paradise (广州钧明欢乐世界, Junming Happy World) is an indoor urban theme park complex in Yongning, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, with 180,000 square meters of floor area, four licensed IP parks (CrossFire, Sega Joypolis, Sonic, Cocoa), four themed hotels and streets, opened from 2021 by Junming Group.
Guangzhou Rongchuang Amusement Park
Guangzhou Rongchuang Amusement Park (广州融创乐园) is a theme park in Huadu District, Guangzhou, China, opened in 2019 as part of the Sunac Cultural Tourism City resort.
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout! is a randomized drop-tower ride at Disney California Adventure, opened May 27, 2017, replacing Tower of Terror. Six song-synced profiles, 183-ft tower, 130-ft drop, 39 mph, Otis-built elevator system.