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Aswan Quarry Landscape
Aswan Quarry Landscape: ancient granite and silicified sandstone quarries at Aswan (أسوان), Egypt, worked from the Early Dynastic Period to Roman times, home of the 42 m, 1,168-ton Unfinished Obelisk and dolerite-pounder quarrying evidence.
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah (حي الطريف في الدرعية), UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010 near Riyadh: first capital of the Saudi Dynasty, Najdi mud-brick citadel, destroyed 1818, restored as an open-air museum.
Atatürk Olympic Stadium
Atatürk Olympic Stadium (Atatürk Olimpiyat Stadı) is a multi-purpose stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, with about 80,000 seats and the largest sports facility in the country.
Atene
Atene (Ἀτήνη) is an ancient coastal deme of Attica near Charaka, in phyle Antiochis with a bouleutic quota of 3, known for its fort with sightlines to Sounion and Vari and Hans Lohmann's 1993 survey; Atene is also the Italian name for Athens.
Atessa/Porcari Sanctuary
Atessa/Porcari Sanctuary (Santuario di Porcari), a small Italic temple in antis at Passo Porcari near Atessa, Chieti, Italy, possibly of Vejovis; discovered 1973, used 2nd-1st century BC, with a 32 cm Magna Graecian bronze statuette.
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park
Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park is a wilderness park in northern Saskatchewan, protecting Canada's largest active sand dunes, the most northerly in the world, and endemic plants.
Athena Kranaia (temple)
The Athena Kranaia (Ἀθηνᾶ Κραναία) was a Doric temple of Athena in the Kallidromo mountains of Phocis, serving as the extramural sanctuary of ancient Elateia.
Athenaeum of Hadrian (Rome)
The Athenaeum of Hadrian, or Atheneum Hadriani, is a school founded by Emperor Hadrian in Rome around AD 135 for Greek rhetoric and public readings, unearthed in Piazza Venezia.
Athenaion (fortification)
Athenaion (Ἀθηναῖον) names several ancient Greek fortified sites: a 4th-century BC fortress-observatory on Mount Itamos near Pyli, Thessaly, a Classical-to-Medieval fort at Skortsinos, Arcadia, and the Athena sanctuary rampart on Eretria's acropolis.
Athenian Treasury at Delphi
The Athenian Treasury at Delphi is a marble building erected by Athens in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi to house Athenian dedications, including spoils from the battle of Marathon.
Átl'ka7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Reserve
Átl'ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Region, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site near Vancouver, British Columbia. Designated September 15, 2021 as Canada's 19th biosphere region; 218,723 ha, 16% marine, managed by HSBRIS with the Squamish Nation.
Atlantic
Атлантик (Atlantic) is a name shared by Atlantic City, New Jersey, the 1909 Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, several Russian companies including OOO Atlantik and Atlantik-M, and online casinos such as Atlantic Spins.
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves
Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999) of 25 protected areas in Paraná and São Paulo, Brazil, covering about 470,000 ha of the largest, best-preserved remnants of the threatened Atlantic Forest, with high endemism, 300-plus caves and a 1,223,557 ha buffer zone.
Atlas Cedar Biosphere Reserve
Atlas Cedar Biosphere Reserve (RBCA), UNESCO MAB site in Morocco's central Atlas Mountains, designated 19 March 2016; 1,375,000 ha, about 1,006,000 residents, and 75 percent of the world's Atlas cedar trees.
Atrans
Atrans (Adrante, Hadrante), Roman road, post, and customs station at the 563 m pass at Trojane, Slovenia, on the Emona–Celeia road, marking the fines Italiae et Norici; attested in the Antonine Itinerary, Jerusalem Itinerary, and Tabula Peutingeriana.
Atreenalin Adventure Park Saimaa
Atreenalin Adventure Park Saimaa (Atreenalin Seikkailupuisto Saimaa) is a rope adventure park in Rauha, Lappeenranta, Finland, opened in 2012. It has 5 tree courses plus Kids Land over 1.5 km and 3 hectares, with a 230 m cable slide.
Atrium Vestae
Atrium Vestae, House of the Vestals (Casa delle Vestali): residence of the six Vestal Virgins beside the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum; visible ruins are mainly Trajanic (c. 110-113 AD), excavated by Lanciani 1882-1884.
Atru Or Ganesh Ganj Mound
Atru or Ganesh Ganj: ASI-protected ruins of tenth-eleventh century Pratihara-period Hindu temples at Atru, Baran district, Rajasthan, including the Siva Gadgach temple; only the Gadia temple remains in worship.
Attanum
Attanum, an ancient villa in Gaul cited as BAtlas 14 G3, near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France; Pleiades place 138199, dated 30 BC to AD 640, at 45.516213 N, 1.206092 E.
Attractiepark Slagharen
Attractiepark Slagharen (Attractie- & Vakantiepark Slagharen) is a Wild West-themed Dutch amusement and holiday park in Overijssel, founded in 1963 as a Shetland pony park by Henk Bemboom, owned since 2012 by Parques Reunidos, with 30-plus attractions, Gold Rush, and Aqua Mexicana.
Au(n)edonnacum
Au(n)edonnacum, also Auedonnaco, was a Gallo-Roman road station and castrum at Aulnay-de-Saintonge, France, on the Saintes–Poitiers road, with an Augusto-Tiberian legionary camp at Rocheroux occupied about 10–30 AD.
Aubert
Aubert: hamlet in Moulis, Ariège, France, home of the Grand Antique marble quarry, a Roman-era black-and-white breccia; also a Quebec geologic formation and a Catalan site.
Aubstadt
Aubstadt is a municipality in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, in the Grabfeld near Bad Königshofen, known for Neolithic-to-Roman archaeological sites, a Hallstatt cemetery, and medieval Vessra and Bibra lordship.
Auchendavy
Auchendavy (Auchendavie) is a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, 3 km east of Kirkintilloch, Scotland, never formally excavated; known for five altars of centurion Marcus Cocceius Firmus and a Trajanic aureus found in 1771.
Auciago
Auciago, ancient villa near Auzac, commune of Saint-Projet, France; Pleiades place 138201, BAtlas 14 G4; name and location attested AD 300-640, representative point 44.739931, 1.520681.
Auckland Domain
Pukekawa / Auckland Domain is Auckland's oldest park, set aside in 1841, containing the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Category 1 listed Domain Wintergardens, sports fields, and Māori and European heritage sites.
Auckland Zoo
Auckland Zoo (Te Whare Kararehe o Tāmaki Makaurau), opened 16 December 1922 at Western Springs, is New Zealand's largest zoo, a not-for-profit conservation science organisation under Tātaki Auckland Unlimited with about 1,400 animals on 17 hectares.
Audaristos
Audaristos (Αὐδάριστος, also Andaristos, Euristus/Euriston) was an ancient Paeonian town near modern Drenovo, North Macedonia, a Tabula Peutingeriana road station with a 10-ha Roman city, attested by Ptolemy and Pliny.
Auditorium Maecenatis
Auditorium Maecenatis (Auditorium di Mecenate) is a sunken apsidal hall on Rome's Esquiline, discovered in 1874 in the Horti Maecenatis; once called an auditorium, it is now read as a summer nymphaeum-triclinium with Third-Style garden frescoes.
Audleystown Court Cairn
Audleystown Court Cairn, also called Audleystown Cairn, is a Neolithic dual court tomb near Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland: a 24 m trapezoidal cairn with two four-chambered galleries holding remains of 34 people, excavated by Collins in 1952.