Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Sacraria

Sacraria, a road station on the Roman Via Flaminia near Le Vene, Umbria (Pleiades 413292, Barrington Atlas 42 D3); name is plural of Latin sacrarium, a place keeping sacred objects.

Sacred Area of S. Omobono (Area Sacra di Sant'Omobono), Roman archaeological site in the Forum Boarium with twin temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta over an Archaic temple of c. 580 BC, found in 1936.

Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region

Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region (「神宿る島」宗像・沖ノ島と関連遺産群) is a 2017 UNESCO serial World Heritage Site of eight components in Fukuoka, Japan, centered on Okinoshima, a sacred island 60 km off Kyushu with 4th–9th century ritual sites and about 80,000 National Treasure votive objects.

Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests

The Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Kenya's coast, inscribed in 2008, made up of ten sacred forests of the Mijikenda people.

Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range

Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range (紀伊山地の霊場と参詣道), a 2004 UNESCO serial site in Mie, Nara, and Wakayama, Japan: Yoshino-Omine, Kumano Sanzan, and Koyasan joined by 307 km of pilgrimage routes including the Kumano Kodo.

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (Sacri Monti del Piemonte e della Lombardia): nine chapel complexes on hills in northern Italy, begun in 1480 at Varallo as substitutes for Holy Land pilgrimage; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003.

Sacsayhuamán

Sacsayhuamán (Saqsaywaman), Inca ceremonial complex north of Cusco, Peru, begun under Pachakuteq; famed for 200-ton mortarless polygonal walls, a 2,997-hectare archaeological park, and debated fortress or Temple of the Sun function.

Sae Folk Village

Sae Folk Village (새민속촌) is a small theme park in Yecheon-eup, Yecheon, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, near Baekjeon-2-ri Senior Citizens' Center and Dongbon-ri stone pagoda; distinct from the same-named Yecheon restaurant.

Saemangeum Children's Land

Saemangeum Children's Land (새만금어린이랜드) is a free 56,000 m² children's theme park in Gunsan, North Jeolla, South Korea, opened in 2018 beside the Saemangeum Seawall, with a 1/200-scale ecological pond, 170 m deck road, bouncing dome, and seasonal March–November operation.

Saepta Iulia

Saepta Iulia (also Septa, Ovile): monumental marble voting enclosure in Rome's Campus Martius, planned by Caesar 54 B.C., completed by Agrippa 26 B.C., about 310 x 120 m, later used for gladiatorial games and as a luxury market.

Safari Park More

Safari Park More (Safari parks "More") is Latvia's first private deer garden, operating since 1995 at Saulstari, More parish, Sigulda district; 170 ha of red deer, fallow deer, and white deer, a 1.5 km hand-feeding trail, breeding farm, and guest house.

Safety coffin

Safety coffin, or security coffin: a burial container with a bell, breathing tube, flag, or escape mechanism for people buried alive. Over 30 German patents in the 1800s; no documented case of one saving anyone.

Sagadi Flower Garden

The Sagadi Flower Garden is the ornamental garden of Sagadi Manor in Sagadi village, Estonia, within Lahemaa National Park, featuring color-graded beds and nearly a hundred rose varieties.

Sagarmatha National Park

Sagarmatha National Park (सगरमाथा राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज), Nepal's Everest park: 1,148 km² in Solukhumbu, established 19 July 1976, World Heritage 1979, 275 km² buffer zone, Gokyo Ramsar site, Sherpa homeland.

Saguaro National Park

Saguaro National Park, near Tucson, Arizona, is a 1994 national park (monument since 1933) in two districts protecting over 2 million saguaro cacti across about 92,000 acres of Sonoran Desert.

Saguenay Fjord National Park

Saguenay Fjord National Park (Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a Sépaq provincial park in Quebec, created in 1983, protecting both banks of the 100 km Saguenay Fjord across 328.6 km2, with hiking, sea kayaking, via ferrata, and beluga-focused marine protections.

Sahamalaza-Iles Radama Biosphere Reserve

Sahamalaza-Iles Radama Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in northwest Madagascar designated in 2001, protecting dry forest, mangroves, and coral reefs; its core became Madagascar's first SAPM marine and coastal national park in 2007.

Saihan Wula Biosphere Reserve

Saihan Wula (赛罕乌拉) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 2001 in Balin Right Banner, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China; 100,446 ha of forest-grassland transition, glacial landforms, and Liao Dynasty heritage.

Saimaa UNESCO Global Geopark

Saimaa UNESCO Global Geopark, in South Karelia and South Savo, Finland, designated 2021; 6,063 km² around Lake Saimaa with Paleoproterozoic bedrock, rapakivi granite, Salpausselkä ridges, and 65 geosites.

Saint Catherine Area

Saint Catherine Area: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2002, criteria i, iii, iv, vi) in South Sinai, Egypt, centered on the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa), sacred to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; 60,100 ha, oldest functioning Christian monastery, now threatened by a tourism megaproject.

Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer

Saint Hilarion Monastery / Tell Umm Amer (دير القديس هيلاريون / تل أم عامر) is a 4th-century Byzantine monastery site in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, the first monastic community in the Holy Land, inscribed by UNESCO and on the Danger List in 2024.

Saint Louis Cemetery

Saint Louis Cemetery: three historic Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans owned by the Archdiocese. No. 1 (1789) is the city's oldest surviving cemetery, first to use above-ground tombs, resting place of Marie Laveau and Homer Plessy, tour-only since 2015.

Saint Peter's tomb

Saint Peter's tomb, under the main altar of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, holds bones announced by Paul VI in 1968 as the apostle's; identification remains debated.

Saint Philip Garden

Saint Philip Garden (Ġnien San Filippu, the General's Garden) is a 17th-century two-level public garden on St Philip Bastion in Floriana, Malta, with a citrus orchard, mature trees, the 1615 Wignacourt Fountain, and part of the Malta National Botanical Garden.

Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan

Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan: Roman and medieval coastal settlement on the Île Saint-Martin in the Narbonnaise lagoon, a possible avant-port of ancient Narbonne, with a 2,500 m² courtyard complex, probable lighthouse, and cisterns.

Saint-Michel tumulus

Saint-Michel tumulus (Tumulus de Carnac): giant Neolithic burial mound in Carnac, Brittany, over 30,000 m³, type of the Carnacean barrows, richly furnished central crypt dated to the mid-5th millennium BC.

Sainte-Colombe

Sainte-Colombe (Rhône), commune on the right bank of the Rhône facing Vienne, part of Roman Vienna; its 2016-2017 excavations, the 'petite Pompéi française', revealed a fire-preserved Gallo-Roman quarter with domus, mosaics, and shops. Also names of other French sites.