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Park HaMishpacha
Park HaMishpacha (פארק המשפחה, Family Park) is an 18-dunam free-entry family park in central Karmiel, Israel, on Sderot Kakal, known for its 'A Flat for Rent' play tower, water fountains, and 2014 State Comptroller ruling ending entrance fees; other Israeli cities have parks of the same name.
Park House, Sandringham
Park House, Sandringham: Norfolk country house built in 1863 for Edward VII's household; birthplace of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961); later a Leonard Cheshire hotel for disabled guests from 1987, vacant since 2020.
Park Khayyam
Park Khayyam (Боғи Хайём), the Omar Khayyam Park of Culture and Leisure, is a 10-hectare amusement park in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Opened 2011 on Karamov Street opposite Luchob Park, formerly Bogh-i Poytakht, with Ferris wheel, roller coasters, and musical fountains.
Park Kultura i Otdikha
Park Kultura i Otdikha (Парк культуры и отдыха, Park of Culture and Rest) is a public park and tourist attraction in central Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia, near Tuymaada Stadium, with forest walking and running trails.
Park Maketa
Park Maketa (Парк макета) is a miniature theme park in Despotovac, Serbia, with hand-built 1:17 scale models of Serbian monasteries and churches, created by Milenko Ilić from 2004, open April to November.
Park MGM
Park MGM is a Las Vegas Strip casino resort operated by MGM Resorts, opened in 1996 as the Monte Carlo and rebranded in 2018; first fully smoke-free Strip casino resort, home to the 5,200-seat Dolby Live theater and The Reserve hotel.
Park of Culture and Leisure named after S. M. Kirov
Парк культуры и отдыха им. С. М. Кирова: shared name of public parks named after Sergei Kirov, notably the 96-ha Central Park on Elagin Island, Saint Petersburg (opened 1932), and parks in Pyatigorsk, Izhevsk, Kirov, Sochi, and Tashkent.
Park of Legends
The Park of Legends (Parque de las Leyendas) is a zoo, botanical garden, and archaeological park in San Miguel, Lima, Peru, inaugurated on 20 March 1964 and administered by PATPAL.
Park of the Four Elements
Парк чатырох стыхій (Park of the Four Elements) is an 18.5-hectare public park opened in 2008 in central Salihorsk, Belarus, with zones symbolizing fire, water, earth, and air, including a 740-jet fountain, sponsored by Belaruskali.
Park of the Reserve
Park of the Reserve (Parque de la Reserva), Lima: 8-hectare 1929 park by Claude Sahut honoring War of the Pacific reservists, home since 2007 to the Circuito Mágico del Agua, 13 fountains with a Guinness record and nearly 3 million 2024 visits.
Park of the Roman Villas at Carthage
Park of the Roman Villas (parc des villas romaines), archaeological park on Carthage's Odeon hill, Tunisia, with 2nd-century aristocratic Roman houses including the Villas of the Aviary and Cryptoporticus, part of the UNESCO-listed Archaeological Site of Carthage.
Park ranger
Park ranger: uniformed protector-educator of parks and public lands; US federal series GS-0025 (NPS, BLM, USFWS, Reclamation); duties span interpretation, law enforcement, search, and rescue; descends from 1880s Army cavalry administration of Yellowstone.
Parko Paliatso Luna Park
Parko Paliatso Luna Park is the largest amusement park in Cyprus, on Nissi Avenue in Ayia Napa. Opened 1999 by Vali Amusements, free entry, token or wristband rides, Sling Shot and 45 m Giant Wheel.
Parks and open spaces in London
Parks and open spaces in London: over 3,000 publicly accessible green spaces covering 18% of the city, managed by boroughs, the Royal Parks, and the City of London, facing funding pressure and unequal access.
Parliament Square
Parliament Square, Westminster, London: garden square opposite the Palace of Westminster, laid out 1868 in Barry's scheme, redesigned 1948, with statues of Churchill, Mandela, Gandhi, and Fawcett, and special protest legislation.
Parnaco
Parnaco (Parnac) was an ancient villa settlement in Gallia Aquitania, modern Parnac, Lot, Occitania, France; the name, from Perna plus -acon, first appears around 630 in the diocese of Cahors.
Parndorf
Parndorf (Croatian: Pandrof) is a village in the district of Neusiedl am See in northern Burgenland, Austria, best known for its large late Roman villa at Bruckneudorf, among the most important archaeological monuments in Austria.
Paroo River Wetlands
Paroo River Wetlands: Ramsar site no. 1716 in far north-west NSW, Australia's 65th Ramsar site (2007), 138,304 ha on the Murray-Darling Basin's last free-flowing river, with over 20,000 waterbirds, artesian mound springs, and Budjiti and Baakandji cultural values.
Parque das Aves
Parque das Aves (Bird Park) is a private bird park and conservation center in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, founded by Dennis and Anna Croukamp in 1994 beside Iguaçu National Park; the largest bird park in Latin America, focused on Atlantic Forest species.
Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
Parque del Buen Retiro (El Retiro), Madrid's ~120-hectare former royal garden created for Philip IV in the 17th century, a municipal public park since 1868, home of the Crystal Palace and Alfonso XII monument, UNESCO-listed in 2021.
Parque Nacional Archipiélago Los Roques
Parque Nacional Archipiélago Los Roques, Los Roques National Park, Venezuela's first marine protected area (1972), a 221,120 ha Caribbean coral-reef archipelago of 45 cays; largest reef MPA in Venezuela, Ramsar site 856, but ranked a top 'paper park'.
Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto
Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto (Loreto Bay National Park) is a 206,580-hectare marine national park in the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur, Mexico, decreed 1996, a UNESCO World Heritage component, Ramsar site 1358, protecting five islands and 30 marine mammal species.
Parque Nacional del Pantanal Matogrosense
Parque Nacional del Pantanal Matogrosense, known in Portuguese as Parque Nacional do Pantanal Matogrossense, is a national park in Mato Grosso, Brazil, created in 1981.
Parrodunum
Parrodunum: Roman fort and vicus at Burgheim, Bavaria, on the Danube frontier of Raetia; listed in the Notitia Dignitatum as garrison of the First Herculian Cohort; also known as Kastell Burgheim, with a debated Stätteberg identification.
Parthenon (Παρθενών)
The Parthenon (Παρθενών) is a former temple of Athena Parthenos on the Athenian Acropolis, built between 447 and 432 BC and designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates.
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
Parthian Fortresses of Nisa: twin tells of Old and New Nisa near Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, capital and royal citadel (Mithradatkert) of the Parthian Empire, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2007, famed for ivory rhyta and Parthian ostraca.
Partie tchadienne du lac Tchad
Partie tchadienne du lac Tchad, Ramsar site no. 1134: Chad's 1,648,168-hectare portion of endorheic Lake Chad, designated 14 August 2001 in Lac and Kanem prefectures, key for waterbirds, 150 fish species, and the Kouri Ox.
Partizany
Partizany: a Crimean village (formerly Şeyh Eli) in Feodosia Raion, an ancient site with a Roman villa in Barrington Atlas 87 L2, and works by Krapiva, Adamovich, Roerich, and a 2026 TV series.
Pasargadae (پاسارگاد)
Pasargadae (پاسارگاد) was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC in Fars, southwestern Iran.
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences (Paisaje de la Luz), a Madrid cultural landscape inscribed by UNESCO in 2021 under criteria (ii), (iv), (vi): 237-ha property with 2,255-ha buffer zone, 16th-century alameda, Buen Retiro gardens, Royal Botanic Garden.