Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Plano Piloto

Plano Piloto (Pilot Plan) is Lúcio Costa's 1957 urban master plan for Brasília, Brazil's capital, built around two crossing axes, superquadras, and four urban scales; UNESCO World Heritage since 1987.

Plant Conservatory

Plant Conservatory, Bulbuley, Gangtok, Sikkim, India: a Forest Department botanical conservation site inaugurated in 2015, holding a rhododendron gene pool, orchid greenhouses, and over 400 plant species in Bulbuley Reserve Forest.

Plant Evolution Garden

Plant Evolution Garden (גינת האבולוציה של הצמח), a free open-air garden at the Hebrew University's Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, presenting 500 million years of plant evolution in five stages as part of the Nature Park & Galleries museum.

Platåbergens UNESCO Global Geopark

Platåbergens UNESCO Global Geopark, Sweden's first global geopark (designated April 2022), covers 3,690 km² of Västergötland between lakes Vänern and Vättern, with 15 flat-topped table mountains, a 1.7-billion-year geological history, and nine member municipalities.

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon)

Plataean Tumulus (Marathon): burial mound near the Marathon museum, Vranas, Attica, excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in 1970 and tentatively identified as the grave of Plataean soldiers who fell at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC; identification doubted by Koumanoudis.

Platanista grove

Platanistas (Πλατανιστάς), the plane-tree grove at Sparta: an island-like fighting ground ringed by a canal and bridges where Spartan ephebes fought ritual combats after puppy and boar sacrifices, with cults of Helen, Enyalios, and Cynisca.

Plattetombe of Waasmont

Plattetombe of Waasmont (Waasmontse Tom, Tombe Pepin), a huge Gallo-Roman tumulus of the 2nd century AD near Landen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium; over 70 m across, never excavated, protected since 1979.

Platyskinos Tholos Tomb

Platyskinos tholos tomb, Achladia (Sitia), East Crete: large looted LM IIIA2-B tholos tomb of cyclopean masonry excavated by Platon, holding three decorated larnakes, linked to a local Mycenaean-era elite.

Playland amusement park (Pakistan)

Playland amusement park, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan; Jabees group's Playland and later Jabees Funland (opened 1976), major Karachi attractions 1966-2006 with roller coasters, dodgem cars and mini-train; distinct from Play Land Rawalpindi and Lahore playlands.

Plaza de España, Seville

Plaza de España, Seville: monumental semicircular complex in María Luisa Park, built 1914–1929 by Aníbal González for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition; provincial ceramic benches, 515 m canal, four bridges, BIC since 2023.

Plaza Mayor, Madrid

Plaza Mayor, Madrid: the 122 x 91 m arcaded Habsburg square built 1617-1619 by Juan Gómez de Mora on the old Plaza del Arrabal, rebuilt by Juan de Villanueva after the 1790 fire, a declared BIC.

Plazuelas

Plazuelas (Las Plazuelas) is a pre-Hispanic archaeological zone near Pénjamo, Guanajuato, Mexico, occupied roughly 450-900 AD, with seven buildings on three hillsides, two ballcourts, over 1,200 petroglyphs, and the circular El Cajete tied to the Teuchitlán tradition; opened to the public in 2006.

Pleasant Goat Village

Pleasant Goat Village (欢乐羊村, Joyful Sheep Village) is a Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf-themed rural resort in Xiwu village, Ganyao town, Jiashan, Zhejiang, opened December 2022; 875-mu phase one, 50-yuan tickets, 4 million yuan 2023 revenue.

Pleasure Garden

Pleasure Garden (プレジャーガーデン) is the amusement park inside Hitachi Seaside Park, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan; opened 1991, run by Hitachi Sunrise Park, with the 100 m Blue Eyes Ferris wheel, 25+ attractions, and the original Gururi Forest card maze.

Pleistocene Park

Pleistocene Park (Плейстоценовый парк) is a rewilding experiment near Chersky, Yakutia, founded by Sergey Zimov in 1996 on 144 km2, testing whether reintroduced large herbivores can restore mammoth steppe and slow permafrost thaw.

Plemmyrium (promontory)

Plemmyrium (Plemmyrion, modern Plemmirio/Maddalena Peninsula) is the promontory closing Syracuse's Great Harbour. Nicias fortified it with three forts in 414 BC; Gylippus captured them in 413 BC, a turning point of the Sicilian Expedition.

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Plitvice Lakes National Park, or Nacionalni park, is Croatia's oldest national park and a UNESCO World Heritage site located in mountainous central Croatia, known for its 16 cascading lakes.

Plöckenpass

Plöckenpass (Passo di Monte Croce Carnico), a 1,357 m pass in the Carnic Alps on the Austrian-Italian border, with a Roman road and inscriptions, WWI history, and a 2023 rockfall closure reopened in 2026.

Plotiště

Plotiště (Plotiště nad Labem), a village near Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, is a major multi-period archaeological site: Neolithic rondel, Únětice culture Early Bronze Age cemeteries, and a Roman period to Migration Period cremation necropolis of over 1,300 urn graves.

Ploutonion at Hierapolis

Ploutonion at Hierapolis (Πλουτώνιον), Pluto's Gate: ancient sanctuary of Pluto and Kore at Hierapolis, Phrygia (Pamukkale, Turkey), built over a CO2-emitting cave on a seismic fault, revered as a gate to the underworld and identified in 2012 by a dedicatory inscription.

Plum Blossom Garden of Mo Shan

Plum Blossom Garden of Mo Shan (东湖梅园, East Lake Plum Garden), founded 1956 on Moshan, East Lake, Wuhan; one of China's four major plum gardens, holding 360+ varieties, 20,000+ trees, and over 80% of world plum varieties.

Plum Blossoms Valley Fairy Park

Plum Blossoms Valley Fairy Park (梅花谷·精灵乐园) is an outdoor parent-child theme park in Mingshan District, Ya'an, Sichuan, opened September 28, 2024 by Ya'an Shutian Tourism under Ya'an Cultural Tourism Group; about 180 mu, 40-plus elf-themed attractions near Mount Mengding tea country.

Plymouth Hoe

Plymouth Hoe is a Grade II registered 15-hectare public park on a headland in Plymouth, Devon, overlooking Plymouth Sound, known for Drake's 1588 bowls game, Smeaton's Tower, Tinside Lido, war memorials, and large events such as Armed Forces Day.

Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock is a granite boulder in Plymouth, Massachusetts, traditionally identified as the Pilgrims' 1620 landing spot, though no contemporary account mentions it; the tradition was first recounted by Thomas Faunce in 1741.

Pnigeus Akroterion

Pnigeus Akroterion (Πνιγεύς), ancient promontory and village on Egypt's Mediterranean coast between Paraetonium and Alexandria, cited in the Stadiasmus, Strabo, and Ptolemy; identified with Ras al-Gharqan, distinct from the Greek architectural akroterion ornament.

Pnyx fountain

Pnyx fountain (Enneakrounos candidate, Kallirrhoe spring): rock-cut spring chamber with steps, well niche, and cistern on the east slope of the Pnyx hill, Athens, tied to Peisistratus' 6th-century BC water supply and Dörpfeld's disputed Enneakrounos identification.

Po Delta Biosphere Reserve

Po Delta Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO MAB site in Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, Italy, designated 2015; 139,398 ha, Italy's only delta and largest wetland reserve, over 360 bird species, 118,070 inhabitants.