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Smaller Mound

Smaller Mound (N-UP-A73) is an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Bajera Khera, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, measuring 112' x 107', companion to the larger Khera Mound, with Painted Grey Ware found at the site.

Smaller Mound Bearing Five Large Digamber Jain Figures Which People Call the Five Pandavas

Smaller mound bearing five large Digamber Jain figures, called the five Pandavas: ASI centrally protected monument no. 3137 at Asothar, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh; 10th-century headless sandstone Jain Tirthankara images under ASI Lucknow Circle.

Smile Glico Park

Smile Glico Park (スマイルグリコパーク) is a Glico-sponsored park and family attraction area inside Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi, Sendai, opened May 3, 2016, with Japan's first baseball-stadium Ferris wheel (36 m, 64 riders) and free rides.

Smile Land

Smile Land (مدينة العاب سمايلاند) is an amusement and water park in Kirkuk, Iraq, the city's first water park, built on 30,000 square meters by Turkey's Polin, with a 54-meter Italian Ferris wheel; distinct from the Smileland indoor mall chain in Erbil and Baghdad.

Smith Rock State Park

Smith Rock State Park is a 650-acre Oregon state park near Redmond and Terrebonne, a world-renowned sport climbing destination with over 2,000 routes on welded tuff cliffs above the Crooked River, drawing about 746,000 visitors annually.

Smithsonian Institution Building

Smithsonian Institution Building, called the Castle, is the Smithsonian's oldest building, completed 1855 in red Seneca sandstone by James Renwick, Jr.; closed since February 2023 for a five-year renovation.

Smolensk Lakeland Biosphere Reserve

Smolensk Lakeland Biosphere Reserve (Smolenskoye Poozerye), a 2002 UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, around a 1992 national park of 146,237 ha with 35 glacial lakes, 74% forest cover, and zoned core, buffer, and transition areas.

Smolnya Branch of the Yakub Kolas Literary Memorial Museum

Smolnya (Смольня) branch of the Yakub Kolas Literary Memorial Museum, opened 1967 in Stowbtsy District, Belarus; preserves the Mitskevich family house and the site of the 1912 Kolas–Kupala meeting.

Smugglers' Notch State Park

Smugglers' Notch State Park (Vermont state park, Stowe, Lamoille County) sits in Mt. Mansfield State Forest near the 1,000-foot-cliff pass named for 1807 Embargo Act smuggling; CCC-built campground relocated 2002-2003 after a 1996 land exchange.

Snaefell and Eyjabakkar Area

Snaefell and Eyjabakkar Area (Snæfells- og Eyjabakkasvæðið) is a 26,450-hectare Ramsar wetland in Iceland's Eastern Central Highlands, designated in 2013 and known as a key moulting site for the pink-footed goose.

Snake Farm of Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute

Snake Farm of Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (สถานเสาวภา), Bangkok Snake Farm, QSMI: Thai Red Cross antivenom research facility opened to the public in 1923, world's second-oldest snake farm, producing seven monovalent and two polyvalent antivenoms.

Snoopy's World

Snoopy's World (Snoopyland) is a free Peanuts-themed outdoor playground opened in 2000 on level 3 of New Town Plaza, Sha Tin, Hong Kong; 40,000 sq ft, six zones, HK$30 million, Asia's first Peanuts playground.

Snow White's Shelter

Snow White's Shelter (Приют Белоснежки) is a private contact zoo and animal shelter founded in 2009 by Gennady and Irina Natekin in Shadyritsy village, Volosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, with reindeer, camels, moose, and nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation.

Snowdonia

Snowdonia (Eryri) is Wales' largest national park, 823 sq mi in north Wales, home to Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), 26,000 residents, 58% Welsh speakers, and nearly 4 million annual visitors; officially renamed Eryri in 2022.

Snowpark (South Korea)

Snowparks in South Korea: indoor winter theme parks like Onemount Snowpark in Ilsan, resort sledding parks such as Gyeongju World Snow Park and Phoenix Snow Park, and Seoul's Hangang Park sledding hills, covering facilities, seasons, and prices.

SnowWorld kimobetsu course

SnowWorld kimobetsu course (スノーワールド喜茂別コース) is a snowmobile course in Kimobetsu Town, Abuta district, Hokkaido, run by SNOW WORLD; season mid-November to about April 10, no license needed, Mount Yotei views.

So-called "No.4 Abbeygate Street"

So-called "No.4 Abbeygate Street" is a Roman building site in Bath, Somerset, excavated 1964-5 by Barry Cunliffe, with a third-fourth century masonry house, possible early fifth-century reoccupation, and medieval abbey-gate footings.

So-called Area L in Berenike

So-called Area L is an ancient building with a large peristyle at the Sidi Khiribech site in Berenike, Benghazi, Libya, built around the second century AD.

So-called Area X in Berenike

So-called Area X in Berenike: small first-century-AD shrine building at Sidi Khiribech, Berenike (modern Benghazi, Libya), possibly joined with the adjacent Hellenistic courtyard house Area A or an independent sacred space.

So-called Caesareum of Cyrene

So-called Caesareum of Cyrene: Roman monumental complex at Cyrene, Libya, a Hellenistic gymnasium converted under Augustus to honor Julius Caesar, later the Flavian forum with basilica, restored under Hadrian.

So-called Central Church in Apollonia

So-called Central Church (Central Basilica) in Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya: a three-aisled Late Antique basilica, main church of the city, mentioned by Synesius of Cyrene, with warm-water baptistery, deliberately destroyed with undermined columns.

So-called East Church in Apollonia

So-called East Church in Apollonia: fifth-century Christian transept basilica at Apollonia (Cyrenaica, Libya), port of Cyrene; largest church of the city, excavated in the early 1920s, with clover-leaf baptistery and Noah mosaic, deliberately destroyed around the Arab conquest of AD 642.

So-called Oratory of Phalaris

So-called Oratory of Phalaris (Oratorio di Falaride), late 2nd-early 1st century BC Roman podium temple on Agrigento's San Nicola hill, built over the ekklesiasterion; name is legendary, dedication unknown.

So-called Palace of the Dux

The so-called Palace of the Dux is a large late-antique residential complex in Apollonia, Libya, excavated by Richard Goodchild and identified by him as a Byzantine governor's palace.

So-called Residential Insula in Apollonia

So-called Residential Insula in Apollonia, an excavated building complex (1954-55) west of the East Church at Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya; once read as a temple of Isis, now seen by Kenrick (2013) as a small production centre, possibly for wine fermentation.

So-called Roman Baths in Apollonia

So-called Roman Baths in Apollonia (Casa delle Cisterne Refrigeranti), a coastal bath complex at Apollonia, Cyrenaica, Libya, used from the 4th century BC to the 7th century AD as villa, baths, and perhaps cisterns; its unfinished caldarium typifies the Cyrenaican hot-room design.

So-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse

The so-called Roman Gymnasium at Syracuse is a Roman complex on the Via Elorina in Syracuse, Sicily, with an elevated quadriporticus, a temple, and a small theater.

So-called Temple of Aphrodite

The so-called Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in southwest Turkey is a marble Ionic temple of the goddess, converted into the Cathedral of St. Michael around AD 500.

So-called Temple of Cybele

So-called Temple of Cybele, a Roman-period temple on the acropolis of Cyrene, probably built in the second century CE, converted to a cistern after the 262 CE earthquake and destroyed in 365 CE; its Cybele dedication is a modern, uncertain label.

So-called Temple of Hercules

So-called Temple of Hercules: ruins at the 8th mile of Rome's Via Appia, once linked to Martial's account of Domitian's Hercules sanctuary, now identified as an emporion or market complex.