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Roman villa at Positano
The Roman villa at Positano is a luxury maritime villa buried beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano, Italy, by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Roman villa near Setia
Roman villa near Setia: Republican-period villa (1st century BC, cryptoporticus, opus reticulatum) below ancient Setia, modern Sezze, Lazio, with second-century AD renovations; part of the villa-rich, wine-producing ager setinus.
Roman villa of Aia Nova
Roman villa of Aia Nova (Villa di Aia Nuova), a mid-1st-century BC villa rustica at Ripacci, Scansano, Tuscany, on the Albegna river; attributed to Publius Anilius from tile stamps, excavated 1987-1990, with baths and brick-commesso floors shown in the Scansano museum.
Roman villa, via Michelangelo Tilli
Roman villa, via Michelangelo Tilli (Villa di via Michelangelo Tilli): a late republican Roman villa in Rome's Ponte Mammolo quarter, near the Aniene river, with visible tufa opus quadratum walls and a tunnel cistern, occupied until the fourth century AD.
Roman Walls of Lugo
Roman Walls of Lugo (Muralla romana de Lugo), intact 3rd-4th century AD Roman city wall circuit, 2,117 m long with 85 towers and 10 gates, enclosing Lugo's historic center in Galicia, Spain; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Romano-British Bath House
Romano-British bath house: hypocaust-heated Roman bathing building in Britain (AD 43 to early 5th century), with frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium sequence; examples at Chesters, Wroxeter, Jewry Wall, Ravenglass.
Romano-British settlement
Romano-British settlement: rural and semi-urban sites of Roman Britain (AD 43-410), including enclosed farmsteads, villas, roadside settlements, and small towns; most numerous type was the ditched farmstead, with villas and towns abandoned after Rome but lowland rural land use largely continuing.
Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm
Romano-British villa 250m south of Park Farm (Snettisham Roman villa) is a scheduled monument (NHLE 1020860) in Norfolk with 3rd-4th century occupation and rare evidence of extensive Roman iron working, confirmed by 1931 excavation and a 1995 geophysical survey.
Römische Villa
Römische Villa (Latin villa): Roman rural estate combining residence and large-scale farming, arising in late republican Italy and spreading to all western provinces; types include villa rustica, villa urbana, and maritime villae.
Römische Villa Otrang
Römische Villa Otrang (Villa Otrang), a large Roman villa rustica near Fließem, north of Bitburg, Germany, on the Trier–Cologne Roman road; 66 rooms, mosaic floors, occupied 1st–4th century AD, destroyed by Franks, rediscovered in the 19th century.
Romula
Romula (Romula-Malva), Roman city at Reșca, Olt County, Romania, capital of Dacia Inferior; municipium 124 CE, colonia 248 CE. Also a Slovenian road station at Ribnica, Galerius's mother, and Seville's colony.
Roquemaillère Roman Quarry
The Roquemaillère Roman Quarry (Carrière romaine de Roquemaillère) is a Roman-era limestone quarry northwest of Nîmes whose hard stone supplied the Tour Magne and the Arènes de Nîmes.
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference (Røros bergstad og Circumferensen), Norwegian UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 1980, extended 2010: wooden mining town and 45.2 km radius privilege area of Røros Copper Works, 1644-1977.
Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park
Parque Nacional Natural Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardo (PNN CRSB), a Colombian Caribbean marine national park declared 6 June 1977 and expanded in 1996 to about 120,000 ha, protecting the Rosario and San Bernardo archipelago reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves near Cartagena.
Rosarium
Розарій (rosarium, rose garden): a park or botanical-garden section for growing and exhibiting rose varieties. Largest in Ukraine is the 3.5 ha rosarium at the Hryshko National Botanical Garden, Kyiv, a national heritage object since 2006.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway: 1.5-mile linear park in downtown Boston created atop the Big Dig tunnels after the elevated Central Artery was removed; managed since 2008 by the nonprofit Greenway Conservancy, with fountains, carousel, public art, and food trucks.
Rose Revolution Park
Rose Revolution Park (ვარდების რევოლუციის პარკი), now Gldani Park, is an amusement park in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, Georgia, opened 11 September 2006, named after the 2003 Rose Revolution, municipally owned, with the SBF Happy Train family coaster.
Rose Valley
Yalong Bay International Rose Valley (亚龙湾国际玫瑰谷) is a 2,755-mu rose-themed agricultural tourism park in Sanya, Hainan, China, founded in 2009, distinct from Bulgaria's Rose Valley.
Roșia Montană Mining Landscape
The Roșia Montană Mining Landscape is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Romania's Apuseni Mountains, known as Alburnus Maior, Rome's principal gold mine after 106 CE.
Roskilde Cathedral
Roskilde Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke), Zealand, Denmark: Scandinavia's first brick Gothic cathedral, begun about 1170 under Bishop Absalon, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995, and burial church of Danish kings and queens since the 15th century.
Ross, Tasmania
Ross, Tasmania: heritage village in the Northern Midlands on the Macquarie River, 120 km from Hobart. Founded as a garrison, named by Macquarie in 1821; known for the 1836 carved Ross Bridge, the Female Factory, and Georgian streetscape.
Rossano
Rossano (Rossano di Vaglio), Lucanian sanctuary in Vaglio Basilicata, Italy, founded mid-4th century BC for the Oscan goddess Mefitis; federal sanctuary of the Lucanians, monumentalized in the 2nd century BC. Distinct from Rossano, the Byzantine town in Calabria.
Rostom Amusement Park
Rostom Amusement Park (حديقة رستم للألعاب الترفيهية), or Parc d'attraction de Tiaret, is a theme park in Tiaret, Algeria. Inaugurated 1987 by Italian engineers on over 40 hectares, it closed, was rehabilitated in 2016, and operates two steel roller coasters including Dragon.
Rostovsky Biosphere Reserve
Rostovsky Biosphere Reserve (Ростовский), a UNESCO MAB site in Rostov Oblast, Russia, around the 1995 State Nature Reserve on Lake Manych-Gudilo; four dry-steppe sites, Ramsar wetland, designated 2008 as Russia's 38th biosphere reserve.
Rostrum Nemaviae
Rostrum Nemaviae was a Roman road station and fortified site on the road from Augsburg to Kempten, identified with the Goldberg hill near Türkheim in Bavaria.
Rough Castle
Rough Castle Roman Fort, near Bonnybridge, Falkirk, is the best-preserved fort on the Antonine Wall, Rome's 60 km turf frontier across central Scotland, known for its lilia pits, Sixth Cohort of Nervii garrison, and 0.6-hectare earthworks.
Roussivau
Roussivau is a lieu-dit in the Estérel massif, Saint-Raphaël, Var, France, 4.5 km from Agay, known for a Roman villa with olive press, fertile dark-red volcanic tuffs, and its debated toponym.
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (Chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle en France), UNESCO World Heritage serial site inscribed 1998: 71 monuments plus seven GR65 sections of the Le Puy route marking four medieval pilgrimage roads from Paris, Vézelay, Le Puy, and Arles.
Roxby
Roxby: English place name covering Roxby cum Risby, North Lincolnshire, site of a Roman villa with a mosaic found in 1699 and re-excavated in 1989, plus Roxby Low Moor and Roxby Hill in North Yorkshire.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), founded 1670 as a physic garden by Balfour and Sibbald, is a Scottish scientific institution and botanic garden with four gardens, 13,500 species, a 3-million-specimen herbarium, and the Edinburgh Biomes restoration.