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Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces (Lavaux, vignoble en terrasses): UNESCO World Heritage terraced vineyard on Lake Geneva's north shore, Vaud, Switzerland, inscribed 2007 under criteria iii, iv, v; 30 km of chasselas vines, 10,000 terraces, 450 km of walls dating to the 11th century.
Lavinia Nature Reserve
Lavinia Nature Reserve is a 7,034-hectare protected wetland on the north-east coast of King Island, Tasmania, made a Ramsar site in 1982 and known for the endangered orange-bellied parrot.
Lavoye
Lavoye (Meuse, France), Argonne commune; Roman samian pottery production center (La Verine workshop, c. 130–3rd century) and 367-grave Merovingian necropolis (480–680) excavated by Dr. Meunier, published by Joffroy 1974; tomb of the "chef" (grave 319).
Lawn jockey
Lawn jockey: a small cast-iron hitching-post statue of a figure in racing silks holding a ring, also called the Faithful Groomsman. The black version is a racist caricature; Jocko Graves and Underground Railroad signaling legends lack primary-source evidence.
LDLC Arena
LDLC Arena: 16,000-seat indoor arena in Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), opened 23 November 2023 at OL Vallée; hosts ASVEL EuroLeague basketball, concerts, ATP 250 tennis, and 2030 Olympics ice hockey plans.
Le Barrou
Le Barrou is the oldest quarter of Sète in southern France, on the étang de Thau, with a 1st-century Roman villa noted for mosaics and wine production.
Le Carrozze-Gravetta
Le Carrozze-Gravetta, archaeological site at Lavello, Potenza, Basilicata: a Daunian sanctuary of the 4th century BCE on the Gravetta hill with tufa naiskos, Doric columns, and 37,000-liter cisterns, plus Canosan-type chamber tombs in the Carrozze valley.
Le Ciliegeta
Le Ciliegeta, original name of the Lago degli Idoli on Monte Falterona, Tuscany: an Etruscan votive lake sanctuary near the Arno springs, drained in 1838 after a bronze Heracles find, yielding about 650 statuettes and 14,111 finds in 2003-2007 digs.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, is a 2019 UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Treviso, Veneto, a hogback viticulture area of ciglioni terraces and bellussera vines producing Prosecco Superiore DOCG from Glera grapes.
Le Freney
Le Freney is an ancient gold mine recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer (place 167774), cited from Barrington Atlas 17 G3, located at 45.0442 N, 6.124785 E in the French Alps, with dated activity 30 BC to AD 640.
Le Grand Verger
Le Grand Verger, Gallo-Roman villa and oil-press site at Lambesc, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, occupied 1st century BC to 10th century AD; also the name of unrelated French places and firms.
Le Griffon
Le Griffon is a Gallo-Roman villa site at Vitrolles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (Barrington Atlas 15 E3), known for a rare domestic heating system described by Pliny and for destruction by fire.
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret is the UNESCO World Heritage name for the heart of Le Havre, Normandy, rebuilt 1945 to 1964 under Auguste Perret.
Le Lac Alaotra : Les Zones Humides et Bassins Versants
Le Lac Alaotra : Les Zones Humides et Bassins Versants, Ramsar Site 1312, Madagascar's third Ramsar site (2003, 722,500 ha), protects the country's largest lake, its marshes, rice fields, and catchments, and the reed-bed bandro lemur.
Le Morne Cultural Landscape
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 10 July 2008) in southwest Mauritius, centers on Le Morne Brabant mountain, a refuge for maroons, escaped slaves, in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Le Pinnacle
Le Pinnacle (Le Pinacle, Jèrriais Lé Pinnacl'ye) is a 60 m coastal rock and multi-period archaeological site at Saint Ouen, Jersey, with Early Neolithic axe factory, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age earthworks, and Jersey's only known Gallo-Roman temple.
Le Vignacce
Le Vignacce (Villa delle Vignacce), a large Roman suburban villa in Rome's Parco degli Acquedotti at the fourth mile of the Via Latina, built AD 125-130 for brick manufacturer Quintus Servilius Pudens, with a domed bath hall lightened by amphorae and sculptures now in the Vatican Museums and Centrale Montemartini.
Le Village des Tortues
Le Village des Tortues (Tortupôle France) is a French tortoise conservation center founded by SOPTOM, opened at Gonfaron in 1988 and moved to Carnoules in 2016-2017, holding over 1,800 tortoises of about 50 species.
Lechlade Roman villa
Lechlade Roman villa: Romano-British villas near Lechlade, Gloucestershire, notably the scheduled 2nd-4th century courtyard villa at Great Lemhill Farm (list entry 1003420) and the excavated Roughground Farm villa, occupied to beyond AD 360.
Lechuguilla Cave
Lechuguilla Cave, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, is a hypogene sulfuric-acid cave in the Permian Capitan Reef Complex, about 245 km long and 489 m deep, famed for gypsum chandeliers, rare microbes, and restricted scientific access.
Lederata
Lederata was a Roman auxiliary fort on the southern bank of the Danube at modern Ram, Serbia, possibly Trajan's crossing point into Dacia in 101.
Ledges State Park
Ledges State Park is a 1,117-acre Iowa state park in south-central Boone County, dedicated in 1924 and known for sandstone bluffs rising above the Des Moines River and Pea's Creek canyon.
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (Lednicko-valtický areál), a ~200 km² designed landscape in South Moravia, Czech Republic, created by the Liechtenstein dukes; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996, criteria (i), (ii), (iv).
Lees Hall Roman Camp (United Kingdom)
Lees Hall Roman Camp: a Roman temporary camp near Haltwhistle, Northumberland, 680m south of Hadrian's Wall's vallum, unique among British camps for its encircling outwork, suggesting occupation lasting a season or more.
Legenda
Легенда ("Legend") names several attractions: an Altai ethnographic park in Polevodka (founded 2013), the Penza Legenda sculpture park (from 2008), Legendia in Poland, The Land of Legends in Turkey, and The Legend coaster at Holiday World.
Legendia Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko
Legendia Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko, shortened to Legendia and known until 2016 as Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko, is an amusement park in Chorzów, Poland, described as the country's oldest.
Lego House (Billund)
LEGO House, "Home of the Brick", is BIG-designed experience house and museum in Billund, Denmark, opened 28 September 2017: 12,000 m2, 21 stacked-brick form, 25 million bricks, four Experience Zones, MINI CHEF robot restaurant.
Legoland Deutschland
LEGOLAND Deutschland Resort is a LEGO-themed family theme park in Günzburg, Bavaria, opened 17 May 2002 as the fourth LEGOLAND park, now with eleven themed worlds, 68 attractions, and over 57 million bricks.
Legoland Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
Legoland Dubai, a LEGO-themed family theme park at Dubai Parks and Resorts, UAE, opened October 2016 as the first Legoland in the Middle East; 40+ rides across six lands for children aged 2-12, plus a separate water park and 250-room Legoland Hotel.
Legoland Japan
Legoland Japan (レゴランド・ジャパン) is an outdoor LEGO-themed park in Nagoya, opened April 1, 2017; 7 lands, 40+ rides, SEA LIFE Nagoya aquarium, and LEGOLAND Japan Hotel, for children aged 2-12.