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Monte Turcisi
Monte Turcisi is a 303 m hill in eastern Sicily crowned by a small Greek fortress of the early 4th century BC, probably dependent on Syracuse.
Montebuono
Montebuono, a hilltop comune of about 1,000 people in Sabina, province of Rieti, Lazio, known for the Romanesque church of San Pietro ad Muricentum over the Roman Terme di Agrippa villa and the church of Santa Maria Assunta at Fianello.
Montecristo
Montecristo, Isola di Montecristo: uninhabited Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago, 10.4 sq km, 63 km offshore; state nature reserve since 1971, famed for Dumas's novel, 700-year-old holm oaks, and strictly limited visits.
Montefalcone nel Sannio
Montefalcone nel Sannio, a mountain commune in Molise's province of Campobasso on the Trigno river, medieval origin, Samnite walls on Monte Rocchetta, Coppola fief, added 'nel Sannio' by 1863 decree.
Montefortini
Montefortini (Tumulo di Montefortini) is an Etruscan tumulus at Comeana, Carmignano, Tuscany: a 12-meter artificial hill with a 640-630 BC tholos tomb and a later rectangular chamber tomb, excavated from 1966 under Francesco Nicosia. Not the town of Montefortino in Le Marche.
Monterfil II at Corseul
Monterfil II, at Corseul (Côtes-d'Armor), France: an excavated commercial and artisanal quarter of Gallo-Roman Fanum Martis, capital of the Coriosolites, dug 1986-1997 by Hervé Kerébel, occupied 15/10 BC to 4th century AD.
Monteroni
Monteroni is an Italian place name: chiefly the Monteroni Tumuli, an Etruscan tumulus necropolis near Ladispoli between Caere and Alsium; also towns Monteroni di Lecce and Monteroni d'Arbia; distinct from Tarquinia's Monterozzi.
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules), a 331,200 ha tropical rainforest reserve in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 1978, UNESCO MAB site 1979, holding about 20% of Mexico's plant diversity.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Montezuma Castle National Monument, Camp Verde, Arizona: a five-story, 20-room Sinagua cliff dwelling occupied about 1100-1425 CE, established December 8, 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt, with Montezuma Well added in 1943.
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville: joint UNESCO World Heritage Site (1987, criteria i, iv, vi) covering Jefferson's plantation home (1769–1809) and his Academical Village with the Pantheon-modeled Rotunda, 795.96 ha, boundary modified 2015.
Montinho das Laranjeiras
Montinho das Laranjeiras (Villa Romana do Montinho das Laranjeiras) is a Roman villa site on the Guadiana at Alcoutim, Algarve, Portugal, occupied from the 1st century BC to the Islamic period, with a cruciform ecclesia, baptistery, and buyut.
Montione
Montione: ancient Roman villa site near Grottaferrata, southeast of Rome, a large villa platform about 150 meters square, earliest phase first century BC; also an Italian toponym for a Verghereto hamlet, a Pisan abbey, and an Umbrian wine estate.
Montmaurin
Montmaurin (Haute-Garonne, Comminges, France): archaeological site with Paleolithic caves, the Montmaurin mandible, the Venus of Lespugue, and two large Gallo-Roman villas, Lassalles and la Hillère, excavated by Georges Fouet.
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa: two large villas (Lassalles and Hillère) in Comminges, Haute-Garonne, France, founded in the 1st century, rebuilt as an aristocratic palace around 330–350, excavated by Georges Fouet.
Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse, formerly Cimetière du Sud) is a Paris municipal cemetery opened 25 July 1824, the second largest in Paris at 19 hectares, holding about 35,000 plots and graves of Baudelaire, Sartre, Beauvoir, Beckett, and Gainsbourg.
Montpelier (Orange, Virginia)
Montpelier (Orange, Virginia), not Montpelier, Vermont: James Madison's plantation estate and National Historic Landmark in Orange County, a 2,700-acre National Trust site with 135 buildings, restored 2004-2009, and an active archaeology program.
Montreal Biodome
The Montreal Biodome (Biodôme de Montréal) is a museum in Montreal that recreates five ecosystems of the Americas inside the former velodrome of the 1976 Olympic Games.
Montreal Botanical Garden
The Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a botanical garden in eastern Montreal, founded in 1931, with about 22,000 plant species in 30 thematic gardens.
Monts d’Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark
Monts d'Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc mondial UNESCO des Monts d'Ardèche): a 2,280 km² geopark in the French Massif Central, labeled 2014, renewed 2023, with 61 geosites, volcanoes, and 550 million years of geology.
Monument at Ain bou Merzoug
Ras el-Aïn Bou Merzoug, also called the monument at Ain bou Merzoug, is a protohistoric megalithic necropolis of about 1,000 dolmens and cromlechs 35 km south of Constantine, Algeria, excavated from 1863 by Féraud and Christy and classified as a historic monument.
Monument Avenue
Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia: a grand residential boulevard laid out in 1887 around the 1890 Robert E. Lee monument, lined with Confederate statues from 1904 to 1929, designated a National Historic Landmark, and stripped of its Confederate statuary in 2020-2021.
Monument historique
Monument historique: French legal status protecting buildings and movable objects (classed or inscribed) for historical or artistic interest, based on the 1913 law, with 45,080 protected immeubles as of 2024.
Monument La Torratxa (Vilablareix)
La Torratxa (Vilablareix), also Torre dels Moros, is a Roman turriform funerary mausoleum of opus caementicium in the Gironès, Catalonia, center of a villa necropolis, roughly 8 m tall, restored with a protective roof.
Monument near Ghirza
The monuments near Ghirza are monumental funerary mausolea in two Roman-period cemeteries at Ghirza, a frontier settlement in the pre-desert zone of Tripolitania, western Libya, mostly dating from the late third and fourth centuries AD.
Monument of Eumenes II/Agrippa
Monument of Eumenes II/Agrippa, also called the Pedestal of Agrippa: an 8.91 m Hellenistic chariot pedestal on the Athenian Acropolis west of the Propylaia, built for Eumenes II after his 178 BC Panathenaic victory and rededicated to Marcus Agrippa in 16/15 BC.
Monument of Kallimachos
Monument of Kallimachos (Nike of Kallimachos, Acropolis Museum inv. Ακρ. 690): post-490 BC Athenian votive Nike on an inscribed column, dedicated by the polemarch Kallimachos of Aphidna after Marathon; 28 fragments, 4.85 m reconstructed, restored 2009-2010.
Monument of Nikias
Choragic Monument of Nikias (Χορηγικό μνημείο του Νικία), Doric hexastyle prostyle naiskos of 320/319 BC on the Acropolis south slope, Athens, built by choregos Nikias son of Nikodemos; dismantled in the 3rd century AD and reused in the Beulé Gate.
Monument of the Eponymous Heroes
Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Το Μνημείο των Επώνυμων Ηρώων): long pedestal in the Athenian Agora carrying bronze statues of the ten tribal heroes, serving as Athens' official notice board from the 4th century BC to Hadrian's era.
Monument removal controversies
Monument removal controversies are disputes over whether public monuments should be kept, relocated, or removed, a contest between local governments seeking removal and state legislatures enacting retention laws.
Monument to the Amazons
Monument to the Amazons refers to the Amazoneion (Ἀμαζόνειον), an unlocated pillar and shrine on the Areopagus in Athens commemorating the Amazons' invasion repelled by Theseus, with related Amazoneum traditions at Chalcis and Ephesus.