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Piperica

Piperica, also cataloged as Barrington Atlas 50 D2 Piperica and Pleiades place 491698, is an ancient fort site in present-day Bulgaria, dated 30 BC to AD 300, located near 41.42 N, 23.46 E.

Pir Hüseyin

Pir Hüseyin (Pir Hüseyin Höyüğü) is a large archaeological mound 25 km east of Diyarbakır, Turkey, findspot of the Naram-Sin stele (1892), surveyed in 2004, with possible 19-ha late Early Bronze Age occupation.

Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction)

Pirates of the Caribbean is Disney's water-based dark ride, opened March 18, 1967 at Disneyland's New Orleans Square, featuring Audio-Animatronics pirates and the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)"; versions run at Magic Kingdom, Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai.

Pirgos (Kakavoula)

Pirgos (Kakavoula), also called the tower of Kakavoula, is a small rectangular Hellenistic-to-Roman fortified building near Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, first recorded by Heuzey in 1860; a press block suggests rural use.

Piroboridava

Piroboridava, a Getae fortress named by Ptolemy, identified with the Poiana-Cetățuia site in Galați County, Romania; occupied from the 13th century BC to the 3rd century AD, with a Roman garrison in the early 2nd century AD.

Pisac

Pisac is an Inca archaeological complex above the modern town of Pisac in Peru's Sacred Valley, about 33 km from Cusco, interpreted as a royal estate of the Inca ruler Pachacútec.

Piscina Mirabilis

Piscina Mirabilis, at Bacoli (ancient Misenum), Italy, is a monumental Augustan-age Roman cistern of about 12,600 m³, terminal reservoir of the 96-km Serino aqueduct (Aqua Augusta) that supplied drinking water to the imperial fleet Classis Misenensis.

Piscina Torta

Piscina Torta, Early Iron Age salt-production site by briquetage in the Castel Fusano pinewood near Ostia, Rome, on the southern Tiber delta; occupied late 8th to 6th century BCE, with kilns, a partly artificial canal, and the first central Italian lime mortar.

Pisões

Roman villa of Pisões (Villa romana de Pisões), a 1st-4th century AD villa rustica near Beja, Alentejo, Portugal, with 48 rooms, mosaics, baths, a 40 m tank, and a Roman dam, supplying Pax Julia.

Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island

Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island (Pitons, cirques et remparts de l'île de La Réunion) is a French UNESCO World Heritage natural site, inscribed 2010 under criteria (vii) and (x), covering 105,838 ha or 40% of Réunion around Piton des Neiges and Piton de la Fournaise.

Pitt Water-Orielton Lagoon

Pitt Water-Orielton Lagoon is a 3,334-hectare Ramsar-listed wetland on Tasmania's south-east coast, designated in 1982 and home to migratory shorebirds and the live-bearing sea star.

Pityous

Pityous, also known as Pityus, Pitiunt, or Bichvinta (ბიჭვინთა), was an ancient city and Roman fortress on the eastern Black Sea coast at modern Pitsunda, Georgia.

Piua Pietrei

Piua Petrii (Piua Pietrii), Giurgeni, Ialomița County, Romania: site at the Ialomița-Danube confluence with a disputed 4th-century Roman fortification opposite Carsium and the medieval town Orașul de Floci, excavated from 1975.

Pixar Place Hotel

Pixar Place Hotel is a Disney-owned, Pixar-themed hotel at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened in 2024 after the Paradise Pier Hotel was reimagined.

Pizus

Pizus (Pizos, Pizo) was a Roman emporium and road station in Thrace near modern Dimitrievo, Bulgaria, founded in AD 202 under Septimius Severus and documented by the edict of Q. Sicinius Clarus (IGBulg III/2 1690), later refortified under Justinian I.

Plaça del Trenet

Plaça del Trenet (Parc del Trenet), Benicàssim, Castellón, Spain: a volunteer-run railway theme park and garden with a 935 m rideable miniature railway in 5 and 7¼ inch gauges, opened 2006 by the Asociación Cultural Ferrocarril de Farja; distinct from the trenet parks of Reus and Valencia.

Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération

Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération, formerly Place de Grève until 1803, is the Paris square facing the Hôtel de Ville in the 4th arrondissement, renamed for the Liberation of Paris and transformed into an urban forest inaugurated 21 June 2025.

Place de la Bastille

Place de la Bastille, Paris square at the junction of the 4th, 11th, and 12th arrondissements on the site of the Bastille fortress stormed 14 July 1789; dominated by the July Column (1831–1840) and bordered by the Opéra Bastille.

Place de la Concorde

Place de la Concorde: Paris's largest square (8.64 ha), built 1758–1772 as Place Louis XV by Ange-Jacques Gabriel; Revolution execution site, home of the 1836 Luxor Obelisk, Monument historique since 1937, now being redeveloped as a garden square.

Place des Vosges

Place des Vosges, formerly Place Royale, is Paris's oldest planned square, begun 1605 by Henri IV in the Marais; 36 arcaded pavilions, Louis XIII statue (1639), classified monument since 1954.

Place du 1er Novembre;ساحة 1 نوفمبر

Place du 1er Novembre (ساحة 1 نوفمبر) is the name of central squares in Algerian cities such as Oran, Constantine, Blida, and Béjaïa, renamed after independence to commemorate 1 November 1954, the start of the National Liberation War.

Place du Maghreb;ساحة المغرب العربي

Place du Maghreb (ساحة المغرب العربي, Square of the Arab Maghreb) is the name of public squares in Kairouan, Oran, Tangier, Oujda, and Sidi Bouzid; the Kairouan one was rehabilitated via Femmedina and inaugurated July 4, 2026.

Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy

Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance, Nancy: three 18th-century squares built 1752–1756 by Emmanuel Héré for Duke Stanislas Leszczynski; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, criteria (i) and (iv), 7 ha property.

Place Vendôme

Place Vendôme: octagonal royal square in Paris's 1st arrondissement, begun 1685 as Place de Nos Conquêtes, redesigned by Jules Hardouin-Mansart from 1699, home of the Vendôme Column and high jewellery houses.

Plain of Jars (ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ)

The Plain of Jars (ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ, Plaine des Jarres) is an Iron Age archaeological landscape in central Laos, named for more than 2,100 large stone jars used in burials.

Plaines d'inondation du Logone et les dépressions Toupouri

Plaines d'inondation du Logone et les dépressions Toupouri, Ramsar site 1560 in Chad, designated 14 November 2005; 2,978,900 ha of Logone River floodplains, lakes, and Toupouri depressions, one of Africa's largest wetlands.

Plakoto fort

Plakoto fort (Πλακωτό), a Classical-Hellenistic watchtower and small fort NE of Magoula, West Attica, guarding the Boeotia route into the Thriasian plain; round tower, 25x33 m enclosure, three gateways, part of Athens' signal network.

Planet of the Apes (site)

Planet of the Apes (Планета мавп, Планета обезьян) names zoo primate attractions, chiefly Kharkiv Zoo's great-ape zone built 2017–2021 for orangutans and chimpanzees, plus Cleveland's planned Primate Forest and other sites borrowing the film title.

Planet Park

Planet Park (প্লানেট পার্ক), also called Barishal Shishu Park, is an amusement park on Band Road in Barishal, Bangladesh, with eight children's rides, a Ferris wheel, and water slides; the name is also used by play parks in France, a Brussels skatepark, and Sonic Colors' Egg Planet Park.

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990

The Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (1990 c. 9) is the UK consolidation statute for listed building consent and conservation area controls, imposing special regard duties under sections 16, 66 and 72 and criminal liability under section 9.