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Alauna/Alione
Alauna/Alione, Roman auxiliary fort at Maryport, Cumbria, founded c. AD 122 under Hadrian as command and supply base for the Cumbrian coastal defences of Hadrian's Wall; famous for its 1870 altar finds and north-westernmost Roman temple.
Alaunium
Alaunium, also Alaunio, a Roman mansio (road station) on the Via Domitia in Gallia Narbonensis, territory of the Vocontii, near Lurs (Notre-Dame-des-Anges), France; attested on the Peutinger Table, Antonine Itinerary, and Vicarello goblets.
Alba Docilia
Alba Docilia (Alba Decelia), Roman mansio and villa at Albisola Superiore, Liguria, on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Vada Sabatia and Ad Navalia; over 9,000 sqm villa, 1st-5th century CE.
Albac
Albac is an ancient site in the Apuseni Mountains of Alba County, Romania, recorded in the Roman province of Dacia as a site with traces of gold washing.
Albanella
Albanella, a comune in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy, founded around the 9th century by Paestan refugees after Saracen raids; part of the barony of Fasanella, with the excavated rural sanctuary of S. Nicola di Albanella in its territory.
Albaniana
Albaniana (Albanianis on the Peutinger map) was a Roman castellum on the Rhine limes at Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, built 40/41 under Caligula for the planned invasion of Britain, rebuilt several times, occupied until about 270-275 CE.
Albert Memorial
Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, London: Gothic Revival monument by George Gilbert Scott, commissioned by Queen Victoria after Prince Albert died of typhoid in 1861; 54 m tall, opened 1872, restored in the 1990s. Distinct from the Manchester Albert Memorial.
Albertfalva
Albertfalva is a district of Budapest, Hungary, and the site of a Roman auxiliary fort and civilian settlement (vicus) between Aquincum and Campona, occupied from the 1st to 3rd centuries.
Albing
Albing is a village in St. Pantaleon-Erla, Lower Austria, site of Austria's largest Roman legionary fortress (568 x 412 m, 23.3 ha), built for Legio II Italica and abandoned for Lauriacum; a namesake hamlet lies in Bavaria.
Albonica
Albonica: an unlocated Roman mansio on route 31 of the Antonine Itinerary between Laminium and Caesarea Augusta (Zaragoza), and a Basque toponym (Alboniga/Almika, Bermeo) first recorded in a 1093 monastery charter.
Albota
Albota is the site of a Roman earth-and-timber auxiliary fort in Argeș County, southern Romania, part of the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line of Roman Dacia.
Alboudozerah
Alboudozerah (البودزيرة) is a park and recreation area in Benghazi, Libya, about 7 km north of the city center in Al-Kuwaifiya, built around a natural lake.
Albuts Museum-Estate of Yakub Kolas
Музей-сядзіба Якуба Коласа «Альбуць» (Albuć memorial estate) is a branch of the Yakub Kolas museum in Stowbtsy district, Belarus, on the 1890–1904 home of the poet's forester father, depicted as Parechcha in Novaya ziamlia.
Alcántara
Alcántara, town in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, named from Arabic for "the bridge". Home of the Roman bridge over the Tagus by Caius Iulius Lacer, dedicated to Trajan, and seat of the Military Order of Alcántara from 1218.
Alcazaba de Mérida
The Alcazaba de Mérida is a ninth-century Muslim fortress in Mérida, Spain, built in 835 by the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman II to control the rebellious city.
Alconis
Alconis (Alconis portus), a small Roman maritime station on the Var coast of southern Gaul, listed in the Antonine Itinerary between Heraclia Caccabaria and Pomponianis; its site between Cavalière and Le Lavandou, France, is disputed.
Ale's Stones
Ale's Stones (Ales stenar), Sweden's largest stone ship setting: 59 boulders, 67 m long, on the Kåseberga ridge in Scania. Dated by most archaeologists to about 600 AD as a burial monument; a disputed Bronze Age solar-calendar theory persists.
Alebaece Reiorum Apollinarium (Bridge)
Alebaece Reiorum Apollinarium (Bridge): a Roman bridge at ancient Alebaece Reiorum Apollinarium (Reii, Apollinaris Reiorum), capital of the Reii, modern Riez, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France.
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park (Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 in eastern Cuba's Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Mountains; Cuba's most biodiverse protected area, with exceptional plant and animal endemism on toxic serpentine soils.
Aleksandrovo tumulus
Aleksandrovo tumulus (Александровска гробница), a Thracian burial mound near Haskovo, Bulgaria, covering a domed 4th-century BC tomb with frescoed hunting scenes, discovered by Georgi Kitov in 2000 and on UNESCO's Tentative List.
Alemgosar Amusement Park
Alemgosar (Älemgoşar, "Rainbow") is an amusement park opened in 2015 in the Avaza National Tourist Zone, Turkmenistan, with over 10 hectares, 15-plus rides, an aquapark, bowling, and arcade facilities.
Alerta
Alerta (variant Alerca) is a Gallo-Roman place name on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a station in the territory of the Bituriges Cubi on the Avaricum–Burdigala road, usually identified with Ardentes or Saint-Vincent-d'Ardentes in Indre, France.
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Borza") is Babeș-Bolyai University's botanic garden in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: founded 1920, opened 1925, 14 hectares, about 10,000 taxa, Romania's largest herbarium (750,000 sheets), Japanese and Roman gardens, six-compartment greenhouses.
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Buia”), Craiova, Romania: university botanical garden founded 1952 by Prof. Alexandru Buia, about 12.8 ha, 6,000 taxa, 400,000-sheet herbarium, IABG member since 1974.
Aley luna park
Aley luna park (مدينة ملاهي عاليه) is a theme park in Aley, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, near the Balcony of Aley and Aley Grand Hotel ruins; distinct from Beirut Luna Park, and site of a fatal 2015 ride accident.
Alfar Romano de Cartuja
Alfar Romano de Cartuja: Roman high-imperial pottery complex (1st-2nd centuries AD) on Granada's Cartuja campus, first terra sigillata hispánica production center found in Baetica, with 14 kilns, dolia, and common wares.
Algarvensis UNESCO Global Geopark
Algarvensis UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparque Algarvensis), in Portugal's Algarve across Loulé, Silves, and Albufeira, designated 24 April 2026; 1,386 km2, 330-million-year geological record, Metoposaurus algarvensis fossil site, Loulé Salt Mine.
Algonquin Provincial Park
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario's oldest (1893) and third largest provincial park, about 763,000–772,000 ha, a Natural Environment park with 2,000+ km of canoe routes, ongoing logging, and private cottage tenure.
Alhambra (الحمراء)
The Alhambra (الحمراء) is the Nasrid palatine city and fortress in Granada, Spain, a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage site with the Generalife and Albayzín, capped at 2.7 million visitors yearly.
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada (Qal'at al-Hamra): UNESCO World Heritage site since 1984, extended 1994, on two hills by the river Darro; Nasrid palatine city founded 1238 by al-Ahmar, plus emirs' gardens and Moorish quarter.