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São Paulo Botanical Garden
São Paulo Botanical Garden (Jardim Botânico de São Paulo), founded 1928 by Frederico Carlos Hoehne in Água Funda within Parque Estadual das Fontes do Ipiranga; state botanical research and conservation garden with Uppsala-inspired gardens, 1929 greenhouses, orchid nursery, and BGCI membership.
Sao Paulo City Green Belt Biosphere Reserve
Sao Paulo City Green Belt Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera do Cinturão Verde da Cidade de São Paulo), UNESCO urban biosphere reserve declared 1994, individualized 2017, covering 78 municipalities around São Paulo in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes.
Săpata de Jos
Săpata de Jos: Roman archaeological site in Argeș County, Romania, two adjoining castella on the Limes Transalutanus near Mârțești, excavated 1929–1930, with a hoard of 17 denarii and 27 antoniniani buried in the Carpic attack of AD 245.
Sapgyoho Amusement Park
Sapgyoho Amusement Park (삽교호놀이동산) is a small retro-themed amusement park in Dangjin, South Chungcheong, on Sapgyoho lake by the West Sea, known for its Ferris wheel, per-ride pricing, and K-drama filming locations.
Sapperton and Cirencester amphitheatre
Sapperton and Cirencester amphitheatre: the early 2nd-century Roman amphitheatre of Corinium Dobunnorum at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, seating about 8,000, one of Britain's largest, later fortified, a medieval warren, now a scheduled monument.
Saqr Public Park
Saqr Public Park (حديقة صقر العامّة) is a large family park in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, opened in 1991 by Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, with a lake, pedal boats, rides, and a skatepark.
Sarah Winchester
Sarah Winchester, born Sarah Lockwood Pardee, was an American heiress who spent nearly four decades turning a San Jose farmhouse into the 160-room Winchester Mystery House.
Sarangchae Folk Village
Sarangchae Folk Village (사랑채민속촌) is a theme park in Uichang-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, named for the sarangchae men's quarters of a hanok; Changwon Station lies 210 m west.
Sărăţeni
Sărățeni (Sóvárad), Mureș County, Romania: village and commune on the Târnava Mică with a Roman auxiliary fort (140 x 146 m stone phase, cohors I Alpinorum) on the eastern limes of Dacia, a salt-exploitation center, and a 2004-commune of 2,459 people.
Sarawak Delta UNESCO Global Geopark
Sarawak Delta UNESCO Global Geopark, in western Sarawak, Malaysia, covers Kuching, Bau, Padawan, and Siburan across 3,112 km². Designated 2026, it is Malaysia's fourth UGGp, first in Sarawak, marked by the Kuching Zone suture.
Sarbane/Sisara
Sarbane/Sisara, known in Greek sources as Sisauranon (Σισαυράνων), was a Sasanian fortress city east of Nisibis on the Roman–Persian frontier, captured and razed by Belisarius in 541 and identified with the modern village of Sirvan.
Sarcophagus (σαρκοφάγος)
Sarcophagus (σαρκοφάγος, "flesh-eater"): a coffin, properly of stone, used from ancient Egypt, Minoan Crete, Etruria, and Rome onward; distinguished from plain coffins by material, decoration, and funerary function.
Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe
Sardis and the Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe, a UNESCO World Heritage site (2025) in Manisa, Türkiye: the Lydian capital Sardis plus Bin Tepe, a necropolis of 115-plus royal tumuli including the vast tomb of Alyattes.
Sarek National Park
Sarek National Park, a 197,000-hectare high-alpine park in Jokkmokk, Norrbotten, Sweden, established 24 May 1909; nearly 100 glaciers, peaks to 2,089 m, part of the Laponia World Heritage Site since 1996.
Sargenai
Sargenai (Sargėnai) is a pre-WWII-excavated Iron Age burial ground in Kaunas, Lithuania, part of the Central Lithuanian Grave Fields Culture, known for 43 eye fibulae and a grave with about 220 bronze scrap pieces (5 kg).
Sariska Tiger Reserve
Sariska Tiger Reserve, Alwar district, Rajasthan (Aravalli hills), a 1,213 sq km Project Tiger reserve created in 1978. Its tigers were poached to local extinction by 2004, then reintroduced from Ranthambhore from June 2008, reaching 56 tigers by 2026.
Särkänniemi Aquarium
Särkänniemi Aquarium (Särkänniemen akvaario), Tampere, Finland: opened April 1969 with the planetarium as the resort's first buildings. Year-round indoor aquarium with 20+ pools, 200 fish species, reptiles, amphibians; former seal pool and 1985–2015 dolphinarium.
Sarkel
Sarkel (Bela Vezha) was a Khazar fortress on the Don River built in the 830s with Byzantine help, controlling the Don-Volga portage trade, and captured by Svyatoslav of Rus' in 965.
Sarmizegetusa Regia
Sarmizegetusa Regia, at Grădiștea de Munte, Romania, was the Dacian kingdom's capital from the second half of the 1st century BC; a UNESCO-listed fortress built in murus dacicus, conquered by Rome in the early 2nd century AD.
Sarmizegetusa Roman amphitheater
The Roman amphitheater of Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, capital of Dacia: an 88 x 69 m civilian elliptical building seating about 5,000, begun in wood around 108 AD, rebuilt in stone, later a fortress.
Sarnis
Sarnis, also Sarnae, was a Roman road station on the Verona to Tridentum road over the Brenner Pass, known only from the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with Serravalle d'Adige near Ala, Trentino, Italy.
Sarno Baths
Sarno Baths (Terme del Sarno), Pompeii Regio VIII Insula 2: six-level, nearly hundred-room bath and residential complex on the city's southern edge, excavated 1887–1890, partially rebuilt after a collapse, function and ownership still debated.
Sarrancolin
Sarrancolin is a polychrome brecciated marble quarried since antiquity in the Neste d'Aure valley, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, decorating Versailles, the Paris Opéra, and the Empire State Building.
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: UNESCO natural World Heritage site (2008, criteria ix and x) in the Naurzum and Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserves, 450,344 ha of steppe and lakes, key Central Asian flyway stopover for up to 15-16 million birds and refuge of the saiga antelope.
Saseondae
사선대 (四仙臺, Saseondae), a National Tourist Area since 1985 in Gwanchon-myeon, Imsil County, North Jeolla, on the Owoncheon; named for a legend of four immortals and four fairies, with sculpture park and Unseojeong. Not the Geochang Saseondae or the shipping term for owned fleet.
Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region (Iran)
Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region (UNESCO No. 1568): serial World Heritage property of 8 components at Firuzabad, Bishapur, and Sarvestan, Fars Province, Iran; inscribed 2018 under criteria (ii), (iii), (v); 639.3 ha plus 12,715 ha buffer.
Satala
Satala (Sadak): Roman legionary fortress at modern Sadak, Kelkit, Gümüşhane, Turkey; base of legions XVI Flavia Firma and XV Apollinaris on the Euphrates frontier, visited by Trajan, refortified by Justinian, destroyed 607/608.
Satun UNESCO Global Geopark
Satun UNESCO Global Geopark, Thailand's first UNESCO Global Geopark (2018), spans 259,700 ha of Satun Province with Cambrian-Permian fossil strata, karst geosites, and community geotourism.
Satyrou Mnema
Satyrou Mnema (Σατύρου μνῆμα, Monument of Satyros), an ancient monument on the Taman' peninsula, Russia, cited in Strabo 11.2.7 and appearing as Monim on the Tabula Peutingeriana; Barrington Atlas 87 L2, Pleiades 854731.
Saunderton
Saunderton, Buckinghamshire: Chiltern village with two scheduled Roman villas (Church Farm, excavated 1938, and Saunderton Lee, found 1962), Domesday manors of St Mary and St Nicholas, and a medieval moated site.