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Public park
Public park: publicly owned, free-access urban green space for recreation and nature. Known as public gardens or pleasure grounds; Victorian-era origin, 27,000 parks in Britain, six quality types, documented access inequities.
Puente de Cañete
Puente de Cañete (Puente Viejo), remains of a Roman bridge on the Arroyo Salado one mile west of Obulco (Porcuna, Jaén, Spain), possibly on a secondary Corduba–Castulo route between Calpurniana and Vircao.
Puente Mocho (Río Guadalimar)
Puente Mocho (Río Guadalimar): Roman bridge, 1st-2nd centuries AD, over the Guadalimar between Beas de Segura and Chiclana de Segura, Jaén, Spain; 97.75 m, six arches, on the Camino de los Cartagineses branch of the Vía Augusta; restored 2016-2017.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River, is a 22,202 ha UNESCO World Heritage park in Palawan, Philippines, with an 8.2 km tidal underground river flowing directly into the sea, inscribed in 1999 and named a New 7 Wonders of Nature site in 2011.
Pula Arena
The Pula Arena (Croatian: Pulska Arena) is a Roman amphitheater in Pula, Croatia, built from limestone and expanded under the Flavians to seat 23,000 spectators.
Pullareddigudem (Andhra Pradesh 58)
Pullareddigudem (Andhra Pradesh 58) is an ASI centrally protected ancient mound with sculptures, carvings, images, and bas-relief, serial 58, Amaravati Circle, near Nagarjunakonda in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh.
Pully
Pully, a Vaud municipality of 19,550 people east of Lausanne on Lake Geneva, known for the Chamblandes Neolithic necropolis and the luxurious Roman villa du Prieuré with its 15.6 m chariot-race fresco, discovered in 1971 and housed in a 1981 site museum.
Pumapunku
Pumapunku (Puma Punku), a stepped platform temple of the Tiwanaku culture at Tiwanaku, Bolivia, begun around AD 500, known for precisely cut andesite H-blocks explained by experimental archaeology with stone tools.
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis (Kerkouane, Cité punique de Kerkouane) is a Tunisian World Heritage Site: the only surviving Phoenicio-Punic city, on Cape Bon, abandoned c. 250 BC, with a checkerboard grid plan and the Arg el Ghazouani necropolis of about 200 tombs.
Punta de Manabique
Punta de Manabique (Refugio de Vida Silvestre Punta de Manabique, RVSPM) is a peninsula and wildlife refuge in Izabal, Guatemala, the country's first marine protected area, a Ramsar site (no. 1016, 2000) on the Gulf of Honduras.
Punta della Vipera Etruscan temple
Punta della Vipera Etruscan temple: extra-urban sanctuary of Menrva near Santa Marinella, Civitavecchia, in Caere's territory, founded c. 540-520 BC, with votive deposits, a long lead inscription, and an Archaic ship-landing site.
Puntone Vecchio
Puntone Vecchio (Villa Romana del Puntone Vecchio) is an archaeological site at Puntone di Scarlino, Tuscany: ruins of a Roman villa of the 1st century BC, in use into the 3rd century AD, with opus sectile, mosaics, and baths, over earlier salt-working briquetage.
Pura Mound
Pura Mound: name for ASI-protected mound sites in Uttar Pradesh, India, chiefly Jai Singh Pura Mound, Mathura, and the Chandella-period Siva temple ruins at Pura, Chitrakut district.
Purcăreni
Purcăreni, a village in Micești commune, Argeș County, Romania, hosts a small rectangular Roman auxiliary fort on the Limes Transalutanus, 2nd-3rd centuries AD, largely destroyed by the Râul Doamnei and road 73; first recorded as Purcăriani in 1487.
Pureora Forest Park
Pureora Forest Park, northern King Country, New Zealand: a 78,000 ha podocarp forest between the Rangitoto and Hauhungaroa ranges, saved from logging by 1978 protests, home to kōkako, rimu and the Pouakani Tōtara, and the Timber Trail.
Purnululu National Park
Purnululu National Park, also called the Bungle Bungles, is a 239,723 ha World Heritage park in the Kimberley, Western Australia, famed for banded beehive-shaped sandstone cone karst towers, inscribed in 2003.
Puruchuco
Puruchuco is an archaeological zone in the Ate district of Lima, Peru, whose restored adobe palace housed the local Ichma ruler and later the Inca representative in the Rímac valley.
Pusalapadu Mound
Pusalapadu Mound is a prehistoric archaeological site in the village of Pusalapadu, Kurnool district, India, showing occupation from the Neolithic to Megalithic period and interpreted as an ancient bead-making factory.
Pusht-i Arisht
Pusht-i Arisht (Posht-e Kuh, Luristan, Iran) is an ancient site on the Kabir Kuh slopes where the Belgian mission under Louis Vanden Berghe recorded a Sasanian chahar taq fire temple, catalogued as Barrington Atlas 92 B3 and Pleiades place 903097.
Pust-i Gau
Pust-i Gau (Pusht-i Gau), archaeological site with fortified citadel in Chakhansur District, Nimroz, Afghanistan, 10 km north of Chakhansur; the name also denotes the Parthian-Sasanian ruined fort Bāghak near Rudbar on the Helmand.
Puszcza Kampinoska Biosphere Reserve
Puszcza Kampinoska Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 near Warsaw, Poland, covering 76,228 ha around Kampinos National Park, with dune-and-swamp habitats and reintroduced elk, beaver, and lynx.
Putensen
Putensen, village in Salzhausen, Landkreis Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany; site of the Gräberfelder von Putensen, a Jastorf urn cemetery (743 graves, 450 BC-50 AD) and a Lombard cremation cemetery (982 graves, 50-375 AD) with the rich warrior grave 150.
Puţinei
Puţinei (Cetatea lui Negru Vodă) is a late Roman fort in Izvoru Bârzii commune, Mehedinți County, Romania, 7 km north of Drobeta; a 100 x 40 m opus mixtum outpost blocking the Vâlcan Pass, used in the 4th century.
Putorana Plateau (protected area)
Putorana Plateau protected area: Putoransky Zapovednik, a strict IUCN Ia nature reserve in northern Central Siberia, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010 (criteria vii, ix), 1,887,251 ha, basalt canyons, 25,000 lakes, wild reindeer migration.
Puy d'Issolud
Puy d'Issolud, also Puy d'Issolu, is a limestone plateau in Vayrac and Martel (Lot, France) identified with Uxellodunum, the last Gallic stronghold besieged by Caesar in 51 BCE, officially recognized in 2001.
Puy-Lautard
Puy-Lautard (Sanctuaire gallo-romain du Puy-Lautard) is a Gallo-Roman double-cella fanum at 755 m in Saint-Pierre-Bellevue, Creuse, France; occupied 1st-4th century AD, excavated from 1980, monument historique 1988/1990, Mérimée PA00100186.
Puyang Northeast Village Wildlife Park
Puyang Northeast Village Wildlife Park (濮阳东北庄野生动物园), a 1,200-mu drive-through zoo in Hualong District, Puyang, Henan, opened 2017-2018 with 15 free-range areas including Northeast tigers, African lions, and black bears.
PWD Park
PWD Park (গনপূর্ত পার্ক) is a theme park in Jhilwanja, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Public Works Department land, opened 2022; the name also covers smaller parks in Rawalpindi, Bareilly, and New Town.
Pyeonghwa Land
Pyeonghwa Land (평화랜드) is a small theme park in Munsan-eup, Paju, Gyeonggi, South Korea, within the Imjingak Resort near the DMZ, with about 20 rides and family attractions.
Pyongyang Rungna Dolphinarium
Rungna Dolphinarium (릉라 곱등어관), dolphin show facility on Rungna Islet, Pyongyang, opened 25 July 2012; 1,460 seats, ~3,000 m³ tank, West Sea water, part of Rungna People's Pleasure Ground.