Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Palace of Domitian

The Palace of Domitian was the imperial residence that Emperor Domitian built on Rome's Palatine Hill, designed by Rabirius and completed in AD 92, serving emperors for centuries.

Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church

The Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret's Church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in London, inscribed in 1987 and made up of three neighboring buildings.

Palaeolithic site: a place with Old Stone Age human evidence, about 1 million to 11,700 years ago in England. Types include caves, rock shelters and river-terrace flint scatters; the scheduled Cuxton site, Kent, yielded over 600 Acheulian flints.

Palaikastro

Palaikastro, a major Minoan Bronze Age town at Roussolakkos in eastern Crete, excavated by the British School at Athens since 1902; no palace, LM IB destruction, Palaikastro Kouros, later sanctuary of Diktaean Zeus.

Palais-Royal

Palais-Royal, Paris palace and garden built from 1624 as the Palais-Cardinal for Richelieu by Lemercier; royal residence, Orléans commercial galleries, Desmoulins's 1789 rally, and since 1875 seat of the Conseil d'État.

Palalce

Palalce, ancient road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana in Asia Minor (Pontus), identified with Baraklı, XV miles from Amasia and XII from Coloe; Barrington Atlas 87 B4, Pleiades 857262.

Palatine Hill

Palatine Hill (Monte Palatino), central hill of Rome above the Roman Forum; site of Iron Age settlement, Romulus legend, Augustus' birthplace and residence, and the imperial palaces that gave the word "palace".

Palatine Stadium

Palatine Stadium (Stadio Palatino), also called Stadium of Domitian or Palatine Hippodrome: a 161 x 48 m circus-shaped garden courtyard built by Domitian on Rome's Palatine Hill, distinct from the Piazza Navona stadium.

Palatiolum

Palatiolum ("little palace") is a fortified late Roman residence at Pfalzel near Trier, built in the 4th century, about 65 x 56 m, later a nunnery founded by Adela around 700 and an archiepiscopal castle; distinct from a Bulgarian site of the same name.

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona: a serial UNESCO World Heritage site (1997, criteria i, ii, iv) of two Lluís Domènech i Montaner Modernista works, a 1905–1908 concert hall and a 1902–1930 garden-city hospital.

Palazzo a Mare

Palazzo a Mare is a Roman imperial maritime villa on Capri's northern coast near Marina Grande, attributed to Augustus and modified by Tiberius; one of three recognizable Tiberian villas, now partly submerged and heavily damaged since the 18th century.

Palazzo Canals

Palazzo Canals (パラッツォ・カナル) is the Venetian-themed canal district of Mediterranean Harbor at Tokyo DisneySea, Urayasu, Japan, opened September 4, 2001, home to the Venetian Gondolas ride, not the Las Vegas Palazzo hotel.

Palazzo Pignano

Palazzo Pignano, a comune in Lombardy's Province of Cremona between the Adda and Serio rivers, is known for its late Roman villa of the 4th-5th centuries AD, a circular paleochristian church with baptistery, and the Romanesque pieve of San Martino.

Palazzo Valentini

Palazzo Valentini, a 16th-century palace on Via Foro Traiano in Rome, seat of the metropolitan administration, houses the Domus Romane: two imperial Roman houses and a Hadrianic temple excavated from 2005 and shown with multimedia reconstruction.

Palenque

Palenque (Lakamha') is a Classic Maya archaeological site in Chiapas, Mexico, a 1987 UNESCO World Heritage property famed for its Palace, Temple of the Inscriptions, and the 1952 discovery of Pakal's tomb by Alberto Ruz Lhuillier.

Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika

The Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Greece, inscribed in 1988, comprising fifteen Early Christian and Byzantine monuments including churches and city walls.

Paleochristian basilica at Vravrona

Paleochristian basilica at Vravrona (Βραυρώνα), an early Christian basilica about 500 m west of the ancient Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron, Attica, built in the 5th-6th century AD with spoliated sanctuary material.

Paleochristian basilica, Illa del Rei

The Paleochristian basilica, Illa del Rei is a ruined early Christian church of the late 5th or 6th century on Illa del Rei island in Menorca's Port of Mahón.

Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir

Battir (C 1492), a Palestinian World Heritage Site southwest of Jerusalem, inscribed 2014 on emergency basis and on the Danger List; terraced widian valleys, dry-stone walls, and an eight-family spring-water rotation system.

Pallanum

Pallanum, ancient town of the Frentani in Abruzzo, Italy, known from the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with the fortified Samnite site on Monte Pallano near Tornareccio, with 4 km of megalithic walls.

Palm grove

Palm grove: a cultivated stand of date palms forming the framework of oasis agriculture in North Africa and the Middle East, with three-layer inter-cropping, aflaj irrigation, and heritage sites like Al-Ahsa and Elche.

Palma Aquarium

Palma Aquarium is a public aquarium and marine park at Playa de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, opened in June 2007 and owned by Coral World International.

Palma Sola

Palma Sola is an archaeological zone on Cerro El Veladero in Acapulco, Guerrero, with 18 granite boulders carved with petroglyphs (about 800 BC to 750 AD), tied to a water cult and astronomical readings.

Palmar de las Islas y las Salinas de San José

Palmar de las Islas y las Salinas de San José, Ramsar site no. 1088 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designated 2001; 856,754 ha of Copernicia alba palm wetlands in the Gran Chaco, within Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and ANMI.

Palmatis

Palmatis (Kochular?), a Roman road station in Moesia Inferior on the Durostorum–Marcianopolis road, later a Justinianic fortified city with an episcopal basilica near Tervel, Bulgaria; unrelated to Pliny's lapides palmati.

Palmengarten

Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main botanical garden founded by Heinrich Siesmayer, opened 16 March 1871 around the purchased Biebricher exotic plant collection; municipal since 1931, with Palm House, Tropicarium, and the Botanical Garden joined in 2012.

Palmeral of Elche

The Palmeral of Elche (Palmeral de Elche) is an artificial oasis of date palm orchards surrounding the city of Elche in Alicante, Spain, laid out in the tenth century.

Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a 12-hectare botanical garden in the Canary Islands specializing in palms, built on a former rubbish dump.

Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. refuge covering an uninhabited equatorial Pacific atoll about 956 nautical miles south of Honolulu, established in 2001.