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La Almoloya
La Almoloya: Argaric Bronze Age hilltop site between Pliego and Mula, Murcia, Spain, occupied c. 2200–1550 BCE; political center of El Argar with assembly hall, 1944 discovery, UAB excavations since 2013, richest Argaric tomb.
La Befa, Carcerelle
La Befa, Carcerelle: a Roman villa rustica in the Ombrone valley, southern Tuscany, at the Torrente di Crevoli–Ombrone confluence near Murlo and Buonconvento; excavated in the 1970s, published by Dobbins (1980), abandoned late fourth century CE.
La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Tar Pits (Rancho La Brea), active Ice Age asphalt-seep fossil site in Hancock Park, Los Angeles; over 3.5 million fossils of 600+ species, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats, Page Museum, Rancholabrean type locality.
La Brèche (necropolis)
La Brèche (necropolis), Laudun-l'Ardoise, Gard, France: large rescue-excavated necropolis near the Tave, Céze, and Rhône confluences, used from the 3rd century CE to the 16th century, with tile graves and a displaced-skull burial.
La Calade
La Calade is the name of several heritage sites in southern France, chiefly a Gallo-Roman necropolis at Cabasse in the Var, excavated by Georges Bérard in the early 1960s.
La Cambe German war cemetery
La Cambe German war cemetery (Cimetière militaire allemand de La Cambe), Normandy's largest German WWII cemetery, holds 21,245 soldiers under a Tischler-designed tumulus, dedicated 1961 and maintained by the Volksbund.
La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve
La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Campana-Peñuelas), UNESCO MAB site in central Chile designated 1984, expanded 2009 to 238,216 ha; core areas La Campana National Park and Lago Peñuelas National Reserve; Mediterranean hotspot, Management Plan 2026-2031 in progress.
La Cecchina
La Cecchina, or Torraccio della Cecchina (Tomba di Spuntapiedi), is a two-story Roman temple-tomb of red and yellow brick on the Via Nomentana, Rome, mid-2nd century, later a medieval guard tower.
La Celle
La Celle, a common French toponym from Latin cella (hermitage, sanctuary), names villages that grew around early churches; notable examples include the Var abbey, Vernou-la-Celle tufa site, and Genainville.
La Celsa
La Celsa (Mausoleo La Celsa) is a Roman mausoleum on the Saxa Rubra cliff along Rome's via Flaminia, a cylindrical drum on a parallelepiped base with an earthen mound, exedra, and cistern, probably of the Ostoria family, later a medieval fortress, now closed to the public.
La Chaussée-Tirancourt
La Chaussée-Tirancourt, long known as the Camp de César, is a fortified archaeological site on the Somme near Amiens in northern France, with Neolithic, Iron Age, and Roman occupation.
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning (French: urbanisme horloger) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of 2009 comprising two neighboring Swiss Jura towns whose layout was shaped by watchmaking.
La Cocosa
La Cocosa (Villa Romana La Cocosa) is a large Roman peristyle villa 16 km south of Badajoz, Spain, discovered in 1944, excavated from 1945 by Serra Ráfols, occupied 1st-8th centuries, with a Triton mosaic and paleochristian complex, declared BIC in 2024.
La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens
La Concepcion Historical-Botanical Gardens (Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción), a subtropical garden in Málaga, Spain, created 1855 by the Marquises of Casa Loring, city-owned since 1990, with 50,000+ plants of 3,000+ species.
La Condamine
La Condamine: French toponym and surname. Covers the Voconces villa-sanctuary site at Pontaix (Drôme), the Chasséen station at Saint-Aunès (Hérault), Alpine and Jura places, and the scientist Charles-Marie de La Condamine.
La Condoumine
La Condoumine (Condamine du Moulin) is a large Gallo-Roman villa at Puissalicon, Hérault, France, 13 km north of Béziers on the Libron; excavated by J.-P. Bacou (1971), about 6 hectares, marble finds, abandoned in the 5th century CE.
La Cuma, Monte Rinaldo
La Cuma, Monte Rinaldo: archaeological park in the Aso valley, Marche, Italy, holding a late-Republican Roman sanctuary (2nd-1st century BC) with a Tuscanic temple of Jupiter, Doric/Ionic-Italic portico, and sacellum; rediscovered 1957, excavated by Bologna and the British School at Rome since 2016.
La Dogana
La Dogana (a duana), Roman tower-shaped funerary mausoleum at Centuripe, Sicily, 2nd-3rd century AD, only upper floor visible; named for later reuse as a customs post; counterpart of the Castello di Corradino.
La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve
La Encrucijada Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada) is a Pacific-coast protected wetland in Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 1995, Ramsar 1996, UNESCO MAB 2006, with Mexico's tallest mangroves threatened by invasive African oil palm.
La Forêt Classée et Réserve Partielle de Faune Comoé-Léraba
La Forêt Classée et Réserve Partielle de Faune Comoé-Léraba (Ramsar Site 1878) is a 124,510 ha community-managed protected area in southwest Burkina Faso at the Comoé-Léraba river confluence, bordering Côte d'Ivoire, rich in flora and endangered wildlife.
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico, a 1983 UNESCO World Heritage Site (criterion vi), comprises La Fortaleza, El Morro, San Cristóbal, El Cañuelo, and the Old San Juan city walls, Spanish Caribbean defenses built from the 1530s onward.
La Gayole
La Gayole (La Gayolle), archaeological site at La Celle near Brignoles, Var, France, with a triconch chapel and paleo-Christian sarcophagi, including the Syagria sarcophagus, found by Peiresc in 1626 and excavated 1964–1969.
La Grand-Place, Brussels
La Grand-Place (Grote Markt), Brussels' central UNESCO World Heritage square since 1998, a late 17th-century Baroque guild-house ensemble rebuilt after the 1695 bombardment by Louis XIV's troops.
La Guérine
La Guérine names several French places: the Domaine La Guérine restaurant (1966) in Cabriès between Aix and Marseille, a Gallo-Roman villa at Cabriès, the Cabasse necropolis, a Brittany hamlet, and Valensole gîtes.
La Hotte Biosphere Reserve
La Hotte Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2016 in south-eastern Haiti, covering 435,193 ha of terrestrial and marine areas around the Massif de la Hotte and Macaya National Park, Haiti's most biodiverse region.
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia (Llotja de la Seda), the Silk Exchange, is a late Gothic civil building complex in Valencia, Spain, built 1482–1533 by Pere Compte and others for Mediterranean trade, inscribed by UNESCO in 1996 under criteria (i) and (iv).
La Malena Roman Villa
La Malena is a late Roman villa near Azuara, Zaragoza, Spain, used from the 1st to the 5th century and known for its rich mosaics.
La Mare de Tabalak
La Mare de Tabalak (Ramsar site no. 1494) is a permanent freshwater pond in Tahoua Region, central Niger, designated 16 September 2005; three basins (Sillalé, Fallé, Kéhéhé), a waterbird refuge with 14% of the Egyptian goose population, threatened by silting, drought, and pollution.
La Michilía Biosphere Reserve
La Michilía Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera La Michilía), 35,000 ha in Durango, Mexico, decreed 18 July 1979; with Mapimí the first biosphere reserve in Mexico and Latin America, MAB-UNESCO since 1979, protecting Sierra Madre Occidental temperate forests.
La Pièce du Fient
La Pièce du Fient: Gallo-Roman villa site at Richebourg (Yvelines), France, 12-13 ha, Gaulish farm from 60 BC, one of the earliest romanized villas, first French site with a Gaulish-period temple, first excavated ancient gardens, abandoned mid-3rd century.