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Passo Lombardo
Passo Lombardo (Villa Romana di Passo Lombardo), a Roman villa rustica in Rome's Tor Vergata suburbium, Municipio VI, with peperino tuff production vats; excavated 1999 and 2006-2009, occupied 5th c. BC to 6th c. AD; Lombard-derived toponym.
Passport to Your National Parks
Passport to Your National Parks, also called the NPS passport or 'Old Bluey', is Eastern National's 1986 guidebook program: free ink cancellation stamps at 433 National Park Service units, annual collectible stamp sets, and proceeds funding park education and preservation.
Pasture House Turret 3A (United Kingdom)
Pasture House Turret 3A (Tower 3A) is a scheduled Roman tower site 386 m west of Pasture House, Bowness, Cumberland, part of the milefortlet-and-tower chain extending Hadrian's Wall's frontier down the Cumbrian coast; preserved as a slight earthwork, listed 9 November 1961.
Patagonia Azul Biosphere Reserve
Patagonia Azul Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Patagonia Azul), a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2015 on Chubut Province's Atlantic coast, Argentina; 3,102,005 ha, mostly marine, with Punta Tombo's Magellanic penguins and the 2025 Patagonia Azul Provincial Park.
Patapsco Valley State Park
Patapsco Valley State Park, founded 1907 as the Patapsco Forest Reserve, is Maryland's oldest state park: 16,043 acres along 32 miles of the Patapsco River, over 200 miles of trails, a CCC camp that became the nation's first conscientious objector camp, and the Thomas Viaduct.
Patara (Cappadocia)
Patara (Cappadocia) is a road station in Lesser Armenia on the Trapezus–Satala route, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana and generally identified with Madenhanları, distinct from the Lycian port city of Patara.
Patara (Lycia)
Patara (Lycian Pttara, Hittite Patar), ancient Lycian port city near Gelemiş, Türkiye; Apollo oracle, Lycian League capital with three votes, Roman provincial capital, birthplace of St. Nicholas, site of Nero's 64/65 CE lighthouse.
Patha Sagauli Mound
Patha-Sagauli is a centrally protected archaeological site in Garautha tehsil, Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh: ruins of a large Chandella temple containing a well preserved statue of Vishnu, listed by the ASI (N-UP-L135).
Patronus tomb
Patronus tomb: Roman funerary monument, ca. 20 BCE, outside Rome's Capena Gate for Patron, a Greek physician, his wife Atheno and daughter Appoleia; discovered 1842 by Campana, frescoes and Greek epitaph now in the Louvre.
Pattadakal (ಪಟ್ಟದಕಲ್ಲು)
Pattadakal (ಪಟ್ಟದಕಲ್ಲು), also Pattada-Kisuvolal, is a UNESCO World Heritage group of 7th–8th century Chalukya temples in Karnataka, blending Nagara and Dravida styles; its Virupaksha Temple was built c. 740 by Queen Lokamahadevi.
Pattaya Elephant Village (Thailand)
Pattaya Elephant Village (หมู่บ้านช้างพัทยา) is a Thai elephant tourist attraction near Pattaya, founded November 1973 for retired logging elephants, offering rides, shows, and trekking; Tripadvisor lists it as failing animal welfare guidelines.
Patti Marina
Patti Marina (Villa romana di Patti Marina): large late Roman seaside villa at Patti, Sicily, near Tindari; discovered 1973 during A20 motorway works; 4th-century AD, about 20,000 m², peristyle, triapsidal triclinium, baths, African-style mosaics.
Paturro Roman villa
Paturro Roman villa (Villa romana del Paturro, Huerto del Tío Paturro), a large terraced Roman villa near Portmán, La Unión, Murcia, Spain, discovered 1969; mining-linked Republican phase, garum production, and a wealthy 1st-3rd century AD residence with Murcia's largest mosaic.
Patvinsuo National Park
Patvinsuo National Park (Patvinsuon kansallispuisto) is a 12,727 ha mire, forest and lake national park in North Karelia, Finland, founded in 1982, a Ramsar site since 1974 and Natura 2000 SAC FI0700047, managed by Metsähallitus.
Paukščių kaimas
Paukščių kaimas (Lithuanian for Bird Village; Polish: Ptasia wieś) is a family-run educational farm and mini zoo in Cijonai, Lithuania, keeping about 300 birds and farm animals in Aukštaitija National Park.
Paulton
Paulton, Somerset: village on a limestone ridge in Bath and North East Somerset, shaped by Somerset coalfield mining and the Somersetshire Coal Canal; 2003 conservation area, 19 listed buildings, on the Heritage at Risk register.
Pavagadh (પાવાગઢ)
Pavagadh (પાવાગઢ) is a volcanic hill in Gujarat's Panchmahal district, site of the Kalika Mata Temple pilgrimage shrine and, with Champaner at its foot, the UNESCO Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, inscribed in 2004.
Pavlini
Павлини (peacocks) is an ambiguous name covering the birds in parks and zoos, the Pauline Order (Pavlini), hamlets named Pavlini in Croatia and Slovenia, and the Ukrainian farm ФГ "ПАВЛІН".
Pawtuckaway State Park
Pawtuckaway State Park is a 5,000-acre New Hampshire state park in Nottingham, featuring Pawtuckaway Lake, a 700-foot beach, a 192-site campground, five cabins, a volcanic ring dike, and glacial-erratic boulder fields.
Peace Arch Park
Peace Arch Park: international park straddling the US-Canada border at Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, jointly managed by Washington State Parks and BC Parks around the 67-foot Peace Arch dedicated in 1921 by Sam Hill to mark the Treaty of Ghent centennial.
Peace-Athabasca Delta
Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), northern Alberta inland freshwater delta at the Peace-Athabasca confluence, Ramsar site and part of Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site; ~6,000 km², Bennett Dam 1968, ice-jam floods, drying debate.
Peacock Garden
Peacock Garden (孔雀园): a walk-through zoo or park exhibit where peafowl, usually blue peafowl, roam loose on lawns. Notable examples include Kunming Zoo's 1.4-hectare garden (1999), Yunnan Wildlife Park's thousand-bird lawn, and Jiayuguan's 30,000-bird breeding garden.
Peak District
Peak District: upland area at the southern Pennines' tip, protected as the UK's first national park (17 April 1951), 555 sq mi across Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, with Dark and White Peak landscapes, 13 million annual visitors.
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy: Bahrain's second UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed 2012. Serial site of 17 Muharraq buildings, three oyster beds, seashore, and Qal'at Bu Mahir fort, preserving the Gulf pearl trade from the 2nd century to the 1930s.
Pèbre
Pèbre (villa antique de Pèbre) is a Roman and late antique villa at Vinon-sur-Verdon, Var, France, occupied 1st–5th centuries, famed for mosaics including a Martial-verse pavement now in Manosque town hall, rediscovered in 2020 and listed MH in 2022.
Pecciolo Avventura
Pecciolo Avventura was an urban adventure park in Peccioli, Tuscany, opened 30 June 2016 in the Caffè Haus garden, with Mini, Junior, and Urban Wild rope courses and an 8-meter climbing wall; now permanently closed.
Pechoro-llychskiy Biosphere Reserve
Pechoro-llychskiy Biosphere Reserve (Печоро-Илычский заповедник), a 1930 zapovednik and 1985 UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Komi Republic, Russia; part of the Virgin Komi Forests World Heritage site and home of the world's first moose domestication farm (1949).
Pedonia
Pedonia, also spelled Pidonia, was an ancient coastal locality of Marmarica, Egypt, between Alexandria and Paraetonium, described by Strabo and Ptolemy and now identified with Marsa Abu Samra.
Pedonianis
Pedonianis (also Pedolanis, Pediolanis) is a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Augustis and Esco, located at Krushovene, Bulgaria; Pleiades 216924, identified with the fortress Valeriana.
Peel Castle
Peel Castle (Cashtal Phurt ny H-Inshey), a ruined fortress on St Patrick's Isle, Peel, Isle of Man: Viking fort of 1098, St German's Cathedral, 15th century curtain walls, Pagan Lady burial, Manx National Heritage site.