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Largo di Torre Argentina
Largo di Torre Argentina (Area Sacra di Largo Argentina) is a sunken archaeological square in Rome with four Republican temples (A–D), the Curia of Pompey where Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, a cat sanctuary, and the Burcardo museum.
Largo Preneste
Largo Preneste, a square in Rome's Prenestino-Labicano quarter on the Via Prenestina, home to the Sepulcher of Largo Preneste, a 2nd-3rd century AD brick tomb, and near the Torrione Prenestino mausoleum.
Larinum Roman amphitheater
Flavian-era Roman amphitheater at Larinum (Larino, Molise), Italy, in Piana San Leonardo; partly cut into tufa, about 96 by 78 m, funded by testament of a local senator, later a necropolis.
Larisa Fortress (Argolid)
Larisa Fortress (Κάστρο Λάρισας), the ancient and medieval acropolis of Argos, Greece, on a 289 m hill; fortified from Mycenaean times, a Byzantine-Frankish-Venetian-Ottoman castle used until 1821, first mentioned at its 1203 capture by Leon Sgouros.
Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena Biosphere Reserve
Las Dehesas de Sierra Morena Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 2002 in Andalusia, Spain, protects the dehesa agroforestry system across about 424,400 ha in Huelva, Sevilla, and Córdoba provinces.
Las Higueras
Las Higueras: Totonac archaeological zone with site museum in Vega de Alatorre, Veracruz, Mexico, on the Río Colipa; occupied 1500 BC–900 AD and famous for its Late Classic murals, originals now in Xalapa.
Las Labradas
Las Labradas: pre-Hispanic petroglyph zone on a Pacific beach in San Ignacio, Sinaloa, Mexico, 51 km north of Mazatlán; over 700 carvings on volcanic basalt, dated roughly 1000 BC to 300 AD, a 2012 archaeological-monuments zone on UNESCO's Tentative List.
Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark
Las Loras UNESCO Global Geopark is a geopark in northern Castilla y León, Spain, designated by UNESCO in 2017 for its moorland plateaus, karst, and canyons.
Las Médulas (Spain)
Las Médulas, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997 in El Bierzo, León, Spain, is the largest open-pit gold mine of the Roman Empire, worked in the 1st-2nd centuries AD by the hydraulic ruina montium technique described by Pliny the Elder, and damaged by a 2025 wildfire.
Las Pilas
Las Pilas, Jonacatepec, Morelos, Mexico: pre-Hispanic archaeological site, oldest antecedent of Jonacatepec, subject to Olmec Chalcatzingo, Early Classic apogee 200-600 AD, known for water-capture canals and Tlaloc burials.
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia Biosphere Reserve
Las Sierras de Béjar y Francia Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera de las Sierras de Béjar y Francia), a UNESCO MAB site since October 2006 in southeast Salamanca, Spain; 199,203.76 ha, 88 municipalities, altitudes 360-2,425 m, Mediterranean woodland with Iberian lynx.
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura Biosphere Reserve
Las Sierras de Cazorla y Segura Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas), a UNESCO MaB reserve in Jaén, Andalusia, designated 1983; about 210,000 ha, 23 municipalities, source of the Guadalquivir and Segura rivers, over 2,200 plant species.
Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve
Las Yungas Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera de las Yungas), UNESCO MAB site designated 2002 in Jujuy and Salta, Argentina; 678,056 ha of subtropical mountain forests, five core areas, nearly 50% of Argentina's biodiversity.
Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak: dacite lava dome in northern California, southernmost active Cascade volcano, world's largest lava dome at 10,457 ft. Erupted 1914–1917, climactically May 22, 1915, before Mount St. Helens 1980.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park: northern California park established August 9, 1916 after Lassen Peak's 1914–1917 eruptions; over 106,000 acres with all four volcano types, active hydrothermal features, and a Very High USGS threat rating.
Last Land
Last Land names several subjects: a casino in Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan (جاي خانة); Leme's 2019 medieval strategy mobile game War of Survival; a Season 6 MU Online private server; and Pablo Lamar's 2016 film The Last Land.
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
Serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (2002, ref 1024rev) of eight south-eastern Sicilian towns, Caltagirone, Catania, Modica, Noto, Ragusa among them, rebuilt in late Baroque style after the 11 January 1693 M 7.3 earthquake.
Lateran
The Lateran is the Rome complex of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, the Lateran Palace, baptistery, and Scala Santa; papal residence for about a millennium until Avignon, and site where the 1929 Lateran Treaty created Vatican City.
Lathiya Mound
Lathiya Mound, archaeological site near Zamania, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh, with a 27-foot Gupta-period sandstone pillar, eight-lion capital, four brick temples, and Maurya-Sunga remains.
Laubendorf
Laubendorf names several places: a district of Langenzenn in Bavaria (first recorded 1237, St. Georg church, Protestant since 1525) and the Bohemian village now called Pomezí, plus an ancient church site in the Barrington Atlas.
Lauca Biosphere Reserve
Lauca Biosphere Reserve, Reserva de la Biósfera Lauca, a UNESCO MAB site in Chile's far-north Andean puna, designated 1981 and extended 2021 to 1,026,567 ha across General Lagos, Putre, and Camarones, with Aymara communities and about one-third of Chile's fauna.
Laugardalsvöllur
Laugardalsvöllur is Iceland's national football stadium in the Laugardalur district of Reykjavík, opened 17 June 1959. Home of the national teams, cup finals, and European club matches; capacity listed between 9,800 and 15,000.
Laugaricio
Laugaricio (Leugaricio), a Roman winter camp of 179/180 AD at today's Trenčín, Slovakia, where 855 soldiers of Legio II Adiutrix under M. Valerius Maximianus wintered during the Marcomannic Wars; known from the castle-rock inscription, the camp itself remains unlocated.
Laumellum
Laumellum (Greek Λαύμελλον), Roman vicus or small town at modern Lomello, Pavia, Lombardy, in Regio XI Transpadana; a road station 12 miles from Cutias on the Tabula Peutingeriana, named by Ptolemy, Ammianus, and the Vicarello beakers.
Lauri of Lokhari Mound
Lauri of Lokhari Mound (Lokhari, Banda/Chitrakut, Uttar Pradesh) is an ASI-protected site of ruined Jain temples, known for first-half-10th-century Chausath Yogini temple remains with twenty theriomorphic Yogini images, some looted and later recovered.
Laurons
Laurons (Anse des Laurons), Martigues, France: cove with nine ancient and modern wrecks, a Roman port, and the well-preserved c. 1450-1630 fishing boat Laurons XI, excavated since 2021 as a maritime archaeology training site.
Laurum
Laurum (Laurium), Roman limes castellum under Woerden, Netherlands, on the Lower German Limes. Fort from Caligula's reign, destroyed in the Batavian Revolt of 69, stone phase after c.160, garrison cohorts XV Voluntariorum and III Breucorum, seven Roman shipwrecks.
Lautrego
Lautrego (Leotricus), ancient settlement in Gallia Aquitania identified with Lautrec, Tarn, France; attested in the Vita Desiderii as a villa bequeathed by Saint Didier; Roman and Late Antique period; Pleiades BAtlas 25 H2 record.
Laval
Laval: name of an ancient mining place in the Gard, France (Pleiades 148108, copper, lead, silver, 30 BC-AD 640), the Laval-Pradel coal and zinc mines, and archaeological sites at Laval, Mayenne, and Laval, Quebec.
Lavatris
Lavatris (Lavatrae), Roman fort at Bowes, County Durham, England, on the Catterick–Carlisle road guarding the Stainmore Pass; occupied from Agricola to the late 4th century, with vicus, bathhouse, and Bowes Castle within its walls.