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Suana
Suana (Sovana), ancient Etruscan and Roman town in Tuscany's Fiora Valley, known to Pliny and Ptolemy, famous for its rock-cut necropolis including the Tomba Ildebranda, and birthplace of Pope Gregory VII.
Suantou Sugar Factory Cultural Park
Suantou Sugar Factory Cultural Park (蒜頭糖廠蔗埕文化園區), in Liujiao, Chiayi, Taiwan: a 1906 Meiji Sugar factory, once Taiwan's third largest, closed after Typhoon Nari in 2001 and now a heritage park with a five-fen tourist train to HSR Chiayi and the National Palace Museum's Southern Branch.
Sub Radices
Sub Radices (Subradice), Roman mansio on the Oescus–Philippopolis road at the southern foot of the Troyan Pass near Hristo Danovo, Bulgaria; garrisoned by cohors I Aureliana, occupied 2nd–6th centuries AD.
Sub Romula
Sub Romula (Subromula), a Roman road station on the Via Appia between Aeclanum and Venusia in Hirpinian Italy, named for the Samnite city Romulea; recorded in the Antonine Itinerary, Peutinger Table, and Ravenna Cosmography, near Guardia Lombardi/Bisaccia.
Sublanuvio
Sublanuvio (Sublanuvium), an ancient Roman road station (statio) on the Via Appia between Aricia and Ad Sponsas, at the twentieth milestone of the Appia, near Lanuvium; known from the Peutinger map and the Geographer of Ravenna.
Suburban Baths
Suburban Baths (Terme Suburbane), private Roman bath complex just outside Pompeii's Porta Marina, built early 1st century AD over disused walls; known for erotic apodyterium paintings, Cupid-Mars mosaic, and heated pool.
Succosa
Succosa (Subcosa), a Roman road station on the Via Aurelia below the hill town of Cosa in Etruria, near modern Ansedonia/Orbetello; attested only in the Tabula Peutingeriana and Ravennate geographer, distinct from Rome's Sucusa.
Sucidava (Romania)
Sucidava (Celei, Corabia, Romania): Dacian capital of the Suci and Roman-Byzantine fortress on the north Danube bank, northern end of Constantine the Great's 328 AD bridge to Oescus, with its secret fountain and 4th-century basilica.
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire: eight earthen mosques at Tengréla, Kouto, Sorobango, Samatiguila, Nambira, Kong and Kaouara, UNESCO World Heritage since 2021, criteria (ii) and (iv).
Suedas
Suedas, also Sesciacum, an ancient Gallic place name identified with modern Saix, France, listed on Barrington Atlas Map 14 (Caesarodunum-Burdigala); also a variant spelling of Suidas, the Byzantine lexicographer.
Sugar Hill, Manhattan
Sugar Hill, Manhattan: historic Harlem neighborhood in Hamilton Heights, roughly 145th–155th Streets between Amsterdam and Edgecombe Avenues; named in the 1920s for the 'sweet life' of its Black professional elite; landmarked 2000–2002.
Sukhoe Ozero II
Sukhoe Ozero II (Сухое Озеро II) is the most fully excavated Karasuk culture cemetery, Minusinsk basin, southern Siberia, 1200–800 BCE: 295 kurgans, 560 graves, horse-sacrifice enclosure, published in 2022 by Maksimenkov and Vadetskaya.
Sukhothai Airport Zoo
Sukhothai Airport Zoo (สวนสัตว์สุโขทัย), Thailand's only zoo inside an airport, sits at Bangkok Airways' Sukhothai Airport; weekend-only, with giraffes, tigers, and an organic rice farm.
Sukur Cultural Landscape
Sukur Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999) in Adamawa State, Nigeria, on the Mandara Mountains plateau, a hilltop settlement with the Hidi's granite palace, terraced fields, and historic iron-smelting remains.
Sula History Park
Парк Гісторыі «Вялікае княства Сула» (Sula History Park, Grand Duchy of Sula) is Belarus's first interactive medieval history park, 49 km from Minsk, built on the restored Lenski estate with a drakkar ride, forge, and six museums.
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain
Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain, also Takht-i-Sulaiman (Solomon's Throne), is a five-peaked limestone mountain in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009 (criteria iii, vi) with 101 petroglyph sites, 17 active worship places, and over 1,500 years of blended pre-Islamic and Islamic veneration.
Sulamani Temple
The Sulamani Temple, whose name means "Crowning Jewel," is a two-storeyed Buddhist temple in Bagan, Myanmar, built in 1183 by King Narapatisithu and noted for its architecture and murals.
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Silver Jubilee Agricultural Park
Taman Pertanian Jubli Perak Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (TPJPSHAS) is a 504.4-hectare agro-forestry agrotourism park on the Kuantan–Kemaman bypass, Pahang, Malaysia, begun 1987, opened by the Sultan 24 July 1999, revitalized in 2024.
Sumaco Biosphere Reserve
Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2000 in Ecuador's Napo province, 931,930 ha around Sumaco Volcano, spanning Andean páramo to Amazon rainforest, with Kichwa agroforestry economies and deforestation and illegal-mining pressures.
Sumerpur Mound
Sumerpur Mound (Jain temple mounds at Sumerpur, Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh): centrally protected ASI site of Jain temple mounds with broken bricks and three kheras, Lakhanpur, Mirzapur, Itara; notified 27 December 1920; distinct from Sumerpur, Rajasthan.
Sumida Aquarium
Sumida Aquarium (すみだ水族館), opened May 22, 2012, is an ORIX-operated public aquarium on floors 5-6 of Tokyo Solamachi at Tokyo Skytree, known for its 7-meter Big Schale jellyfish tank, indoor penguin pool, and ADA Nature Aquarium displays.
Summer Fun Park Fiss
Summer Fun Park Fiss (Sommer-Funpark Fiss) is a family amusement park at the Möseralm, 1,812 m above Fiss, Tyrol, Austria, run by Fisser Bergbahnen. Known for the Fisser Flitzer toboggan run, Fisser Flieger, and Skyswing, open mid-June to mid-October.
Summit Resort
Summit Resort (新社莊園, Xinshe Castle), a European castle-themed leisure farm opened 1 July 2005 in Xinshe District, Taichung, Taiwan; 500–860 m elevation, lake, waterfall, chateau restaurant, NT$350 adult admission.
Summuntorium
Summuntorium, also Submuntorium, a Roman military site at Burghöfe, Mertingen, Bavaria, in Raetia about 30 km north of Augsburg; occupied from the early 40s AD to the 5th century, with a Tetrarchic stone fort and a vicus.
Summus P(o)eninus
Summus P(o)eninus, the Roman name of the Great St. Bernard Pass summit (2,473 m) and its sanctuary of Jupiter Poeninus, with a Flavian temple, about 52 bronze votive tablets, and a mansio, destroyed in 394.
Sun Temple of Niuserre
The Sun Temple of Niuserre is a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian temple to the sun god Re at Abu Ghurab near Cairo, built by King Niuserre around 2420 BC.
Sundarban Wetland
Sundarban Wetland, Ramsar Site no. 2370, is India's 423,000 ha Ramsar wetland in West Bengal, designated 30 January 2019 within the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, home to Royal Bengal tigers and four million resource-dependent people.
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান)
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান), West Bengal, India: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 in the world's largest mangrove forest, core of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, home of swimming Bengal tigers.
Sunflower Garden
Sunflower Garden (百万葵园, Million Sunflower Garden), Guangzhou: China's first and largest sunflower-themed park, opened April 2002 in Nansha's Xinken, 26 hectares, about one million sunflowers; closed August 27, 2024 amid rent arrears and lost 4A rating.
Sungkai Wildlife Conservation Centre
The Sungkai Wildlife Conservation Centre is a breeding and rehabilitation facility of Malaysia's wildlife department in Sungkai, Perak, established in 1971 for a Malayan gaur breeding program.