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Poblet Monastery
Poblet Monastery (Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet), a Cistercian abbey in Vimbodí, Catalonia, founded in 1150; royal pantheon of Catalonia and Aragon, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991.
Pocheon Art Valley
Pocheon Art Valley (포천아트밸리) is a former granite quarry in Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, reopened in 2009 as an eco-friendly art and culture park with Cheonjuho Lake, sculpture park, monorail, and astronomical science center within the Hantangang UNESCO Global Geopark.
Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico - GR)
Podere Cannicci (Civitella Paganico, Grosseto) is an Etruscan-Roman archaeological site in the middle Ombrone valley: a late Etruscan and Republican village with a fertility sanctuary, necropolis, and blacksmith workshop, destroyed in the early 1st century BC and excavated since 2017 by the IMPERO Project.
Poets' Corner
Poets' Corner is the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London, where over 100 poets and writers are buried or memorialized, a tradition begun by Chaucer's 1400 burial and Spenser's 1599 interment nearby.
Poggino necropolis
Poggino necropolis (Necropoli del Poggino), Etruscan burial site near Fonterutoli, Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany: five tombs of the 7th-5th centuries BC, princely 6th-century BC grave goods, excavated by Carlotta Cianferoni, linked to the Museo Archeologico del Chianti.
Poggio del Molino
Poggio del Molino (Hill of the Mill) is a Roman archaeological site near Populonia, Piombino, Tuscany: a 2nd-century BCE fortress, then a garum farm, then a maritime villa, occupied to the 5th century CE.
Poggio Gaiella
Poggio Gaiella (Poggio Gajella) is a hill 3 km north of Chiusi, Tuscany, with a ~90 m Etruscan tumulus and 35-tomb necropolis, once misidentified as King Porsenna's labyrinthine tomb.
Poggio Gramignano Roman Villa
Poggio Gramignano is a hilltop Roman villa site near Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria, best known for a mid-fifth-century infant cemetery tied to a malaria epidemic.
Pokagon State Park
Pokagon State Park: 1,260-acre Indiana state park near Angola, Steuben County, established 1925 as Lake James State Park, renamed for Potawatomi leaders Leopold and Simon Pokagon; CCC-built 1934-1942; home of Indiana's only refrigerated toboggan run.
Pokrovka-4 mound
Pokrovka-4 (Покровка-4), Eneolithic Afanasyevka-culture kurgan cemetery in the Charysh basin, Altai Krai, Russia; federal heritage site (Order 1495, 2015) with flagstone ring fences, ochre burials, and bronze-and-gold temple beads.
Poláky
Poláky, Czech village in Chomutov District; first mentioned 1318. Archaeological site of a large Bylany culture cemetery (74 graves) and the submerged early medieval Poláky-Dolany cemetery under the Nechranice Reservoir.
Polar Bear Provincial Park
Polar Bear Provincial Park: Ontario's largest and most northerly provincial park, a 2,355,200 ha wilderness on Hudson Bay established 1970, Ramsar site, accessible only by air or boat, home to polar bears, caribou, and snow geese.
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden
Полярно-альпийский ботанический сад (PABSI, Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute), founded 1931 in the Khibiny, Kirovsk, Murmansk Region; northernmost botanical garden in Russia at 67°38' N, one of three beyond the Arctic Circle, a RAS research institute since 1967.
Pole Aquarium
Pole Aquarium (极地馆) is a public aquarium in Dalian, Liaoning, China, at Laohutan Ocean Park; opened 2002 as China's first polar aquarium, housing belugas, penguins, and polar bears.
Poligon
Полигон (Russian for polygon/range): a bounded tract for military training, weapons testing, waste disposal, field research, or tactical games; also a GIS area feature. Examples include Kubinka tank proving ground, Moscow lasertag bases, and OSM polygons.
Pollenzo Roman amphitheater
Pollenzo Roman amphitheater, at ancient Pollentia (Pollenzo, Bra, Cuneo, Italy), a full-structure imperial amphitheater of about 132 x 98 m with an 82 x 48 m arena, built after the mid-1st century AD, abandoned by the early 5th, and preserved in the elliptical village built on its radial walls.
Pollok Country Park
Pollok Country Park is Glasgow's largest park and only country park, a 146-hectare former Maxwell estate on the White Cart Water, holding Pollok House (1750-52) and the Burrell Collection museum, gifted to the city in 1966 and designated a country park in 1980-81.
Pomodiana/Cumodina
Pomodiana/Cumodina (Procopius' Putedis) is a Roman road station and late antique fortress at Mal Tepe near Stanevo, Lom Municipality, northwest Bulgaria, on the Danube road between Almus and Cebrus, occupied from the 1st to 6th century AD and excavated since 2020.
Pompegiaco
Pompegiaco, also Pompiac, an ancient late antique place in Gaul attested only in the Vita Sancti Desiderii of Didier, bishop of Cahors (630–655), identified by the Barrington Atlas with Pompiac, Castillonnès, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
Pompei Tropaea
Pompei Tropaea: victory trophies Pompey the Great erected in 71 BC at the Col de Panissars in the Pyrenees, commemorating 876 conquered cities; earliest large Roman tower trophy, debated reconstruction.
Pompeiacum/Vernemetis
Pompeiacum/Vernemetis are the pair of ancient names recorded for places on the Garonne in Lot-et-Garonne, France; Vernemetis means "the great sanctuary" and Pompeiacum was the early medieval name of Le Mas-d'Agenais.
Pompeii
Pompeii: Roman city 9 km southeast of Vesuvius, buried by ash and lapilli in the 79 CE eruption, rediscovered in 1748; 66 ha city, 44 ha excavated, over 1,000 victims, 104 plaster casts, UNESCO World Heritage site.
Pompeo
Pompeo: the Villa di Pompeo Magno (Albanum Pompei), a large Roman villa at Albano Laziale attributed to Pompey the Great, built 61–58 BC, plus the nearby tower-shaped Sepolcro di Pompeo on the Via Appia.
Ponderosa Ranch
Ponderosa Ranch, the Bonanza theme park in Incline Village, Nevada, founded by Bill and Joyce Anderson, open 1967 to 2004, replica ranch house, sold to David Duffield, closed September 26, 2004.
Pons Aeli
Pons Aeli (Pons Aelius), the Aelian Bridge, was a Roman auxiliary fort and settlement on Hadrian's Wall at Newcastle upon Tyne, occupied 2nd-4th centuries AD, garrisoned by the First Cohort of Cornovii, distinct from Hadrian's Tiber bridge of the same name.
Pons Aemilius
Pons Aemilius (Ponte Rotto), Rome's first stone bridge over the Tiber, begun 179 BC by censors Nobilior and Lepidus, completed with stone arches in 142 BC; one arch survives.
Pons Aerarius
Pons Aerarius, a Roman toll-bridge road station in the 333 Itinerarium Burdigalense between Nemausus (Nîmes) and Arelate (Arles), traditionally located near Bellegarde, Gard, France; no remains found, emblem of Bellegarde since 1922.
Pons Agrippae
Pons Agrippae (Bridge of Agrippa) was an ancient Roman bridge over the Tiber in Rome linking the Campus Martius with Trastevere, probably carrying the Aqua Virgo aqueduct.
Pons Aluti
Pons Aluti (Ponte Aluti), Roman bridge station on the Olt (Alutus) at Ioneștii Govorii, Vâlcea, Romania; a Limes Alutanus fort with cohors III Gallorum brick stamps and a 151-152 antoniniani hoard (Caracalla to Philip I).
Pons Aufidi
Pons Aufidi (Ponte Aufidi), Roman bridge and road station on the Via Appia over the Ofanto river between Aquilonia and Venusia, listed on the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary; identified with either Ponte S. Venere or the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge.