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Piatra Roşie
Piatra Roșie (Red Rock) is a Dacian fortress near Luncani, Hunedoara County, Romania, part of the UNESCO Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains; founded under Burebista, destroyed by Rome in 105–106 AD.
Piazza d'Armi
Piazza d'Armi (arms square) is the Italian term for a military drill ground, also used for city districts and archaeological sites, above all the Etruscan citadel of Veii, occupied from the 9th to the early 5th century BC.
Piazza d'Oro at Hadrian's Villa
Piazza d'Oro (Golden Square) is a second-phase (125–133 AD) garden-court complex at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, with an octagonal pumpkin-domed vestibule, cipollino and granite colonnades, and 1987–88 excavations revealing Roman planting pits and irrigation.
Piazza del Campo
Piazza del Campo, also called Il Campo, is Siena's shell-shaped main square, formed at the meeting of three streets on three hills; 333 m circumference, nine segments honoring the Government of the Nine, site of the Palio since 1644 and part of the UNESCO-listed historic centre (1995).
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (Piazza dei Miracoli, Campo dei Miracoli): UNESCO World Heritage square (1987) with the Cathedral begun 1063 by Buscheto, Baptistery, Leaning Tower, and Camposanto; 8.87 ha, criteria i, ii, iv, vi.
Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria is Florence's L-shaped civic square before Palazzo Vecchio, formed from 1268 Ghibelline house demolitions; seat of republican government, open-air sculpture gallery with Cellini's Perseus, Ammannati's Neptune, and a David copy.
Piazza Ronchi Roman cistern
The Piazza Ronchi Roman cistern (Cisterna di Piazza Ronchi) is a ruined Roman water reservoir in Piazza Ronchi, near the via Prenestina in Rome's Collatino district.
Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco, or St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, a 170-meter space enclosed by St Mark's Basilica and the Campanile.
Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands
Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands, a 862-hectare Ramsar site near Mount Gambier, South Australia, listed 21 December 2012; karst springs over 110 m deep, peat fens, threatened species, and cave diving in The Chasm and The Cathedral.
Picos de Europa Biosphere Reserve
Picos de Europa Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 10 July 2003 in Asturias, Cantabria, and León, Spain, covering about 63,642 ha around Spain's first national park (1918), with 1.8-2.0 million annual visitors.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, America's first national lakeshore (authorized 1966), protects 73,236 acres of mineral-stained sandstone cliffs, dunes, and waterfalls along 42 miles of Lake Superior in Alger County, Michigan.
Piddington
Piddington Roman villa, Northamptonshire: Iron Age settlement (c.50 BC) that became a Romano-British villa and iron-working site, found 1781, excavated by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society since 1979.
Pièce détachée. Abdessalam;Casino
Pièce détachée. Abdessalam;Casino is a car parts shop on Rue Mohamed Khemisti in Relizane, Algeria, OSM node 4516550090, double-tagged amenity=casino and shop=car_parts.
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park, also called Westwood Memorial Park, is a Los Angeles cemetery and funeral home known for celebrity graves, especially Marilyn Monroe's.
Pierre Ecrite
Pierre Ecrite (peira escricha) is a 5th-century Gallo-Roman rock inscription at Saint-Geniez, France, recording Claudius Postumus Dardanus, praetorian prefect of the Gauls, and his lost city Theopolis; classified Monument historique in 1909.
Pierrière
Pierrière (Perrière, from Latin perreira) is an ancient place in Barrington Atlas map 14 H2 (Pleiades 138516); the word is old French for a stone quarry and survives as a quarry place name in France.
Pietra Papa
Pietra Papa: medieval Roman toponym (Prata Papi) in the Marconi quarter, right bank of the Tiber, site of a Roman riverside villa, a Claudian-era 400 m quay, and the Hadrianic athlete mosaic now in the National Roman Museum.
Pietrarossa di Trevi
Pietrarossa di Trevi (Santa Maria di Pietrarossa) is an Umbrian archaeological site identified with Roman Trebiae, excavated since 2015 by the University of Perugia under Donatella Scortecci, with a domus, public complex, marine-themed mosaics, and occupation from the 3rd century BC to the 7th–8th centuries AD.
Pietroasa de Jos
Pietroasa de Jos is a former commune at the foot of Istrița hill in Buzău County, Romania, united with Pietroasa de Sus in 1938 to form Pietroasele.
Pieve Socana
Pieve a Socana (Pieve di Sant'Antonino a Socana), Castel Focognano, Casentino, Tuscany: a Romanesque parish church built over an Etruscan sanctuary with a 5th-century BC sandstone sacrificial altar and temple remains.
Pike Hill Signal Tower
Pike Hill Signal Tower, near Banks, Cumbria, is an early 2nd-century Roman signal tower on the Stanegate frontier, later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall at a 45-degree angle; its 6.10 m square remains were excavated in 1931–32 and are in English Heritage guardianship.
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche), a 1745–1754 Bavarian Rococo pilgrimage church by Dominikus Zimmermann near Steingaden, built after a 1738 weeping-Christ miracle; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
Pillerhöhe
Pillerhöhe (Piller Sattel, Piller Höhe), Tyrol Alpine pass at about 1560 m linking the Upper Inn valley with the Pitztal, site of a sanctuary used from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, discovered 1992, with Raetic inscribed objects IT-8 and IT-9.
Pilón-Lajas Biosphere Reserve
Pilón-Lajas Biosphere Reserve (RB-TCO Pilón Lajas), a UNESCO MAB reserve since 1977 and indigenous territory in Bolivia's La Paz and Beni departments; ~400,000 ha, co-managed by the Tsimane-Mosetén Regional Council, home to jaguar and spectacled bear.
Pilsdon Pen
Pilsdon Pen: 277m Dorset hill with a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort, two Bronze Age bowl barrows, medieval ridge and furrow, and a post-medieval rabbit warren; excavated 1964-71 and 1982, scheduled monument 1019394.
Pimachiowin Aki (site)
Pimachiowin Aki, "The Land That Gives Life" in Anishinaabemowin, is a 2,904,000-hectare UNESCO World Heritage site in Manitoba and Ontario, inscribed in 2018 as Canada's first mixed site, home of four Anishinaabe First Nations.
Pincian obelisk
Pincian obelisk, also called Aurelian or Barberini obelisk: a 9.25 m pink Aswan granite obelisk commissioned by Hadrian after AD 130 for Antinous, carved with hieroglyphs in Rome, found near Porta Maggiore, erected on the Pincio in 1822.
Piniana
Piniana (Piniana Castra), a late Roman fort in Raetia secunda on the Danube-Iller limes, usually identified with the Bürgle fort at Gundremmingen, Germany; small 28 × 65 m enclosure, built late 3rd century, destroyed 406/407.
Pinnacles National Park
Pinnacles National Park, central California, redesignated from Pinnacles National Monument in 2013; volcanic spires 500–1,200 ft, Bear Gulch and Balconies talus caves, San Andreas Fault transport, and a California condor release program.
Pinnata Castra
Pinnata Castra, also Castra Pinnata or Pinnatis, a conjectural Roman place name of northern Britain, most often identified with the Inchtuthil legionary fortress in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, though Rivet and Smith place it on the Moray coast.