Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Santa Cecilia Acatitlan

Santa Cecilia Acatitlan (Acatitlán, 'place of the reeds') is a Mexica-era archaeological site in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico, dependent on Tenayuca, with a reconstructed pyramid-temple excavated by Eduardo Pareyón in 1961 and an adjacent Mexica sculpture museum.

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a basilica in Rome's Trastevere district, built by Pope Paschal I in the early 9th century, dedicated to Cecilia, a music-patronized Roman martyr.

Santa Claus Village

Santa Claus Village: free-entry Christmas attraction on the Arctic Circle, 8 km north of Rovaniemi, Finland; opened 1985, over 700,000 visitors yearly, free Santa meetings, Main Post Office, distinct from underground SantaPark.

Santa Cristina

Santa Cristina (pozzo sacro di Santa Cristina), Nuragic sacred well temple at Paulilatino, Oristano, Sardinia; Bronze Age basalt isodomic masonry, tholos chamber, debated 12th-8th century BC dating, UNESCO Tentative List site.

Santa Lucia in Selci

Santa Lucia in Selci (Santa Lucia in Orfea) is a Baroque convent church at Via in Selci 82, rione Monti, Rome, on the Esquiline Hill; an ancient diaconia rebuilt by Maderno (1604) and Borromini (1637-38), held by Augustinian nuns since 1568.

Santa Maria Antiqua

Santa Maria Antiqua, early medieval church in the Roman Forum at the foot of the Palatine Hill, founded in the mid-6th century inside Domitian's palace complex, famous for layered 6th–11th century frescoes and rediscovered in 1900.

Santa Maria dell'Orto

Santa Maria dell'Orto, a 16th-century guild church in Trastevere, Rome, at Via Anicia 10; built from 1495 over a miraculous Virgin image in an orchard, financed by food-trade guilds, facade by Vignola, Japanese national church.

Santa Maria della Salute

Santa Maria della Salute (Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute), Longhena's Baroque votive church at the Grand Canal entrance in Venice, vowed 22 October 1630 during the plague, begun 1631, consecrated 1687, with its annual 21 November Festa della Salute.

Santa Maria di Grottaferrata

Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, also called the Abbey of San Nilo, is a Basilian monastery near Rome founded in 1004 by Nilus of Rossano, consecrated in 1024, and the last Italo-Greek monastery keeping the Byzantine rite in communion with Rome.

Santa Maria in Cosmedin

Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, formerly Sancta Maria in Schola Graeca) is a Roman minor basilica at Piazza della Bocca della Verità, founded in the 6th century, enlarged by Pope Adrian I in 782 over the Ara Maxima Herculis, and housing the Bocca della Verità.

Santa Maria in Domnica

Santa Maria in Domnica (Santa Maria alla Navicella), minor basilica and titular church on Rome's Caelian Hill; 7th-century diaconia rebuilt by Paschal I (817-824), noted for its 9th-century apse mosaic and Sansovino's 1513 portico.

Santa Maria in Legarano

Santa Maria in Legarano, a church in Legarano frazione near Casperia, Rieti, Lazio, built on the ruins of a Roman villa; parish until 1409, with Torresani 1561 Last Judgment fresco, closed after the 2016 earthquake.

Santa Monica Pier

Santa Monica Pier, opened September 9, 1909 as the first concrete pier on the West Coast, originally built to carry sewage out to sea; now an amusement destination with Pacific Park, the Looff Hippodrome carousel, and fishing.

Santa Park

SantaPark, the Home Cavern of Santa Claus, is an underground Christmas theme park in a 50-metre-deep cavern on the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, Finland. Opened 1998; winter season late October to January; tickets from 42 euro.

Santa Savinilla catacomb

Santa Savinilla catacomb (Catacomba di Santa Savinilla), Early Christian tuff catacomb in Nepi, Viterbo, Lazio, named after matron Savinilla, burying martyrs Tolomeo and Romano; over 1,000 tombs, used 4th to 5th century, 14th-century fresco.

Santa Sofia

Santa Sofia, Italian for Holy Wisdom, is the name of several historic churches dedicated to Christ as divine Wisdom, most famously Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Santi Giovanni e Paolo, called San Zanipolo, is a large Dominican Gothic basilica in Venice's Castello district, known as the pantheon of Venice for the 25 doges buried there.

Santi Nereo e Achilleo

Santi Nereo e Achilleo, a 9th-century Roman titular church near the Baths of Caracalla, rebuilt by Sixtus IV in 1475 and restored by Cardinal Baronio 1596-1598, dedicated to two soldier martyrs.

Santi Quattro Coronati

Santi Quattro Coronati, fortified Roman basilica and Augustinian monastery on the Caelian Hill, founded 5th century, rebuilt by Leo IV and Paschal II, home of the Aula Gotica frescoes and Oratorio di San Silvestro.

Santicum

Santicum, ancient settlement at Villach in Carinthia, Austria, in the Roman province of Noricum. Road station on the Aquileia to Virunum route via the Kanal valley; temple of the goddess Vibes at Warmbad; occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 640.

Santiniketan

Santiniketan (শান্তিনিকেতন), the Tagore ashram and school in Birbhum, West Bengal, founded 1863/1901, home of Visva-Bharati University, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023 under criteria (iv) and (vi).

Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence's principal Marian shrine and mother house of the Servite order, named for a miraculous Annunciation fresco; first recorded 1250, completed 1481 under Michelozzo and Alberti.

Santo Domingo Church (Quezon City)

Santo Domingo Church (Simbahan ng Santo Domingo) is a Dominican national shrine at 537 Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, designed by Jose Zaragoza, declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2012, and enshrining the 1593 ivory La Naval de Manila image.

Santo Niño de Cebú

Santo Niño de Cebú, the Holy Child of Cebu, is the Philippines' oldest religious relic: a Flemish-style Christ Child image given by Magellan in 1521, rediscovered in 1565, enshrined at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu.

Santo Stefano al Monte Celio

Santo Stefano al Monte Celio (Santo Stefano Rotondo) is Rome's oldest circular church, a 5th-century imperial rotunda on the Caelian Hill with 22 spolia columns, 34 Counter-Reformation martyrdom frescoes, and a mithraeum beneath.

Santuario di Pyrgi

Santuario di Pyrgi, the great Etruscan maritime sanctuary at Pyrgi, port of Caere near Santa Severa; sacred to Uni/Astarte, site of the bilingual Pyrgi Tablets and Temples A and B, excavated by Sapienza since 1957.

Santuario nuragico di Santa Vittoria

Nuragic sanctuary of Santa Vittoria di Serri, Sardinia: a three-hectare federal sanctuary and well temple of the 13th–8th centuries BC, with bronzetti, Etruscan and Phoenician finds, excavated by Taramelli from 1907.

Sanxingdui (三星堆)

Sanxingdui (三星堆) is a Bronze Age site in Guanghan, Sichuan, capital of the ancient Shu kingdom, famous for the 1986 sacrificial pits and the six pits excavated from 2019, with giant bronzes, gold masks, and no writing.

São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão

São Francisco Square (Praça São Francisco) in São Cristóvão, Sergipe, Brazil: UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2010 under criteria (ii) and (iv), a 3 ha quadrilateral square fusing Portuguese and Spanish colonial urban planning from the Iberian Union.