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S. Cucufate
São Cucufate (Villa Romana de São Cucufate), Roman villa site at Vila de Frades, Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal; three successive villas from the mid-1st to mid-5th century AD, excavated 1979-1984, National Monument since 1947.
S. Desideratus, Mon.
S. Desideratus, Mon. (monasterium Gurthonense) is a late antique monastery at Gourdon, Saône-et-Loire, France, cited in 534, visited by Gregory of Tours in 570, home of the healer-saint Desideratus, patron against toothache.
S. Ermete
S. Ermete (Catacomba di S. Ermete o Bassilla, Catacomb of St. Hermes) is a third-century Christian catacomb on Rome's Salaria Vetus, on three levels, holding the martyrs Proto and Giacinto and a semi-hypogeal basilica over St. Hermes' tomb.
S. Eulalia de Bóveda
Santa Eulalia de Bóveda (Santalla de Bóveda), a late Roman semisubterranean monument near Lugo, Galicia, discovered in 1914, with frescoes, a piscina, disputed function, and 4th-century dating.
S. Giovanni in Galdo
S. Giovanni in Galdo: Italic (Samnite) sanctuary, Tempio Italico, on Colle Rimontato near San Giovanni in Galdo, Molise; nearly square temple with two porticoes, monumentalized after 104 BC, abandoned 3rd century AD.
S. Ippolito
S. Ippolito (Catacomba di Sant'Ippolito) is a Roman catacomb on the Via Tiburtina centered on the tomb of martyr Hippolytus; 3rd-century origin, Damasus and Vigilius interventions, explored by Bosio.
S. Lidano
S. Lidano (Archi di San Lidano) is a Roman bridge near Sezze Scalo, Italy, on a road off the Via Appia to Setia; three arches of local limestone, one and a half survive, named after the 11th-century saint San Lidano.
S. Miguel de Odrinhas
São Miguel de Odrinhas (MASMO), Sintra, Portugal: archaeological museum opened 1999 beside a Roman villa (1st century BC to 5th-6th century AD), a medieval necropolis, and a major Roman epigraphic collection including Portugal's only Etruscan sarcophagi.
S. Passera
S. Passera (Santa Passera) is a small medieval church on the Tiber's right bank in Rome's Portuense quarter, dedicated to a saint who never existed; the name corrupts Abbaciro (Father Cyrus), and the complex layers a 2nd-century Roman mausoleum, an oratory of Saints Cyrus and John, and 9th-14th century frescoes.
S. Pietro ad centum muros
S. Pietro ad centum muros (ad Muricentum), Romanesque church at Montebuono, Rieti, Lazio, built over the Roman 'Terme di Agrippa' villa; first noticed 1105, frescoed by Iacopo da Roccantica in 1451.
S. Rocco
S. Rocco (San Rocco) is a Roman villa at Francolise, Caserta, Campania, on Monte Telefono at the edge of the Ager Falernus; excavated 1962-1966 by M. A. Cotton, with phases from 100/90 BC to the mid 2nd century AD, a 12-column Ionic peristyle, aqueduct-fed cisterns, and olive oil vats. Distinct from the Neoclassical Villa S. Rocco at San Martino Buon Albergo, Verona.
S. Sebastianus (Italy)
S. Sebastianus (San Sebastiano fuori le mura), the Basilica Apostolorum on the third mile of Rome's Via Appia Antica: a 4th-century Constantinian circiform funerary basilica, later dedicated to the martyr Sebastian, with catacombs that gave the word "catacomb" its name.
S. Valentino (Italy)
S. Valentino (Italy) is a Roman villa site in the frazione of San Valentino, Poggio Mirteto, Lazio, also called Bagni di Lucilla; findspot in 1801 of a Vatican mosaic, distinct from Villa dei Casoni and the Roman catacombs of San Valentino.
S. Vincenzino
S. Vincenzino (Villa romana di San Vincenzino) is a large Roman patrician villa of about 7,000 square meters at Cecina, Tuscany, occupied from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD, with a 540-cubic-meter cistern, 37-meter peristyle, and baths, now an archaeological park.
S&L Casino
S&L Casino: small casino at Provinzstraße 28, 13409 Berlin, Germany, in the Gesundbrunnen/Reinickendorf area; open daily 11:00-03:00, no wheelchair access, listed among Berlin's 17 poker rooms; distinct from the Landstuhl company S & L Casino's Entertainment Automaten GmbH.
Sa Sedda 'e sos Carros
Sa Sedda 'e sos Carros, a Nuragic village-sanctuary in the Lanaittu valley near Oliena, Sardinia (12th-9th century BC), known for its sacred spring with ram-head water spouts, ceremonial bath, and bronze-working deposits.
Saadian Tombs
The Saadian Tombs are a 16th-century royal necropolis in Marrakech, Morocco, founded in 1557 as the burial ground of the Saadian dynasty and sealed for over two centuries.
Saalburg Roman Fort
Saalburg Roman Fort (Römerkastell Saalburg): reconstructed Roman cohort fort on the Upper German-Raetian Limes near Bad Homburg, Germany; garrisoned by Cohors II Raetorum c. 135–260 AD, rebuilt 1897–1907 under Kaiser Wilhelm II, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005.
Saaremaa Zoo
Saaremaa Zoo (Saaremaa Loomaaed), private zoo in Mäeküla, Saaremaa, Estonia, opened June 2023 by Risto Ränk and Mirge Arge; over 50 species, nearly 1,000 animals, born from the Risto Ränk Farming YouTube channel.
Sabah Agriculture Park
Sabah Agriculture Park (Taman Pertanian Sabah) is a 6 sq km botanical garden and research center at Lagud Seberang, Tenom, Sabah, founded 1981 as the Tenom Orchid Centre, holding over 350 wild orchid species; distinct from Sabah Agro Industrial Park.
Sabarmati Ashram (સાબરમતી આશ્રમ)
Sabarmati Ashram (સાબરમતી આશ્રમ), also called Gandhi Ashram or Satyagraha Ashram, is Mahatma Gandhi's former riverside residence in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, home 1917–1930 and departure point of the 1930 Dandi Salt March, now a museum and archive undergoing a Rs 1,200 crore redevelopment.
Sabatinca
Sabatinca, also called the Roman road station Sabatinca of the Itinerarium Antonini, was a mansio on the Noric main road near Sankt Johann am Tauern, Austria, its exact site still disputed.
Sabiona
Sabiona (Säben), the "Holy Mountain" above Chiusa, South Tyrol: early medieval bishop's seat moved to Brixen, Benedictine nuns 1686-2021, Cistercians of Heiligenkreuz since 2024.
Sable Island
Sable Island (Sable Island National Park Reserve) is a 42-km crescent of shifting sand 290 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's 43rd national park since 2013, known for wild horses, grey seals, and over 350 shipwrecks.
Sablonetum
Sablonetum, a small Roman auxiliary fort (Kastell Ellingen) on the Raetian limes in Bavaria; 0.7 ha, timber fort c. 115–125 AD, stone rebuilt 182 AD under Commodus, abandoned c. 233; garrison 200–250 men.
Sabratha amphitheater
Sabratha amphitheater: Roman amphitheater at Sabratha, Libya, built mid-2nd century AD of calcarenite, seating up to 20,000; distinct from the city's famous Roman theatre; abandoned after a 4th-century earthquake and spoiled in the 6th century.
Sabratha Roman Theater
The Sabratha Roman Theater is a Roman theater in the ancient city of Sabratha, on the coast of Libya, built in the late second century CE and among the best-preserved Roman theaters in the world.
Săcelu
Săcelu, a commune and balneoclimateric resort in Gorj County, Oltenia, Romania; attested 1480 under Țepeluș Vodă, with a Roman castrum, thermae, and highly mineralized therapeutic springs.
Sacis ad Padum
Sacis ad Padum, a Roman road and river station in the Po delta on the via Popilia route (Tabula Peutingeriana), 12 miles from Augusta, near the Po branch Sagis, identified near Comacchio at Burchioletto.
Sacra Via
Sacra Via (Via Sacra), the oldest and most famous street of ancient Rome, ran about 500 m through the Roman Forum from the Capitoline to the Arch of Titus, carrying triumphal and religious processions.