Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Torre de Urkulu

Torre de Urkulu (Urkulu Dorrea) is a circular Roman trophy tower on mount Urkulu (1,420 m) in Orbaizeta, Navarra, near the French border; identified by Tobie in 1976, its origin is debated between Pompey and Augustus.

Torre del Breny

Torre del Breny (Torre dels Dimonis), a 3rd-century Roman tower mausoleum at Castellgalí, Bages, Catalonia, near the Llobregat-Cardener confluence; only its 10 x 10.5 m base survives after 1870 dismantling; declared BCIN in 2022 with the Boades villa ensemble.

Torre del Filosofo

Torre del Filosofo, a locality on Etna's upper south flank at about 2,920 m, named for the legend that Empedocles sheltered there; its 1960 refuge was buried by the 2001, 2002-03, and 2013 eruptions.

Torre del Papito

Torre del Papito is a medieval tower in Rome at the edge of the Largo di Torre Argentina archaeological area, one of the city's few surviving medieval towers.

Torre di Donoratico

Torre di Donoratico: ruined 12th-century tower of the Della Gherardesca castle near Castagneto Carducci, Livorno, Tuscany, on an Etruscan-fortified hill; destroyed around 1447 by Alfonso of Aragon, excavated 2000-2010.

Torre di Mercurio

Torre di Mercurio (Tower of Mercury), Tower XI of Pompeii's city walls at the end of Via di Mercurio in Regio VI. A 13-meter opus incertum tower of the early 1st century BC, restored and reopened 23 December 2022.

Torre Spaccata

Torre Spaccata, Rome: eastern Roman quarter named for a ruined medieval tower on a 2nd-century Roman sepulcher; INA-Casa district (1960), 50-60 ha Pratone green area, and excavated valley with Neolithic to medieval finds.

Torreparedones

Torreparedones (Ituci Virtus Iulia, possibly Bora) is a 10.5-ha Ibero-Roman archaeological site in Baena and Castro del Río, Córdoba, Spain, with forum, sanctuary of Dea Caelestis, amphitheater, baths, domus, and necropolis, occupied from the Copper Age to the late Middle Ages.

Torres del Paine National Park

Torres del Paine National Park (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine), Chilean Patagonia park created 1959, 227,298 ha, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 1978; granite Paine massif, W and O trekking circuits, over 250,000 annual visitors, administered by CONAF.

Torrione di Micara

Torrione di Micara (Torrione Micara, Tomba di Lucullo): circular 1st-century BC Roman tower-mausoleum on the via Tuscolana near Frascati, southeast of Rome; traditionally Lucullus's tomb, later a medieval fortification.

Tortoise Sanctuary

Tortoise Sanctuary, the Prison Island Giant Tortoise Sanctuary on Changuu Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, keeps free-ranging Aldabra giant tortoises; namesake sanctuaries exist in Seychelles, Singapore, Bulgaria, and Senegal.

Torvaianica

Torvaianica (Torvajanica), a seaside frazione of Pomezia on the Lazio Tyrrhenian coast about 30 km south of Rome; sandy family beaches, fishing tradition from Minturno, Torre del Vajanico origin, Roman villa of via Siviglia, Zoomarine, coastal erosion.

Toson-Khulstai Biosphere Reserve

Toson-Khulstai Biosphere Reserve (Тосон-Хулстай) is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in north-eastern Mongolia, designated October 2020 around the 1998 Toson-Khulstai Nature Reserve; 1,010,356 ha of forest steppe and grassland, key Mongolian gazelle habitat.

Tost, Toson Bumbiin Nuruu Biosphere Reserve

Tost, Toson Bumbiin Nuruu (Tost-Tosonbumba) Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site (2026) in Mongolia's South Gobi, a snow leopard corridor between Gobi Gurvansaikhan and Great Gobi, 1,661,408 ha, State Nature Reserve since 2016.

Totternhoe Roman Villa

Totternhoe Roman Villa: 4th-century Romano-British courtyard villa at Church Farm, Totternhoe, Bedfordshire, excavated by Manshead Archaeological Society in the 1950s; bath block, mosaics, hypocausts; scheduled monument 1005409.

Tottori Flower Park

Tottori Flower Park (Tottori Hanakairo, とっとり花回廊) is a 50-hectare prefectural flower park in Nanbu-cho, Tottori, opened 1999, with a 1 km covered walkway, lily collection, Flower Dome, and Mt. Daisen borrowed scenery.

Tou Batou

Tou Batou is the ancient Barrington Atlas name for Saint Catherine's Monastery, the sixth-century Greek Orthodox monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai at Jebel Musa, Egypt, founded under Justinian I and continuously functioning.

Tour de Biran

Tour de Biran: the 20 m square watchtower (Tour de Guet) on the motte of Biran, Gers, France, last remnant of a castle built 1080-1100 and dismantled in 1630; also the village's 13th-14th century tour-porte bell tower.

Tour de Gresset

Tour de Gresset, a Roman-period site at Fréteval, Loir-et-Cher, France, listed in Barrington Atlas Map 14 (CAG 41.174) and the Roman Gaul catalogue; near the Tour de Grisset temple cella.

Tour Magne

Tour Magne (Turris Magna), the only surviving tower of Nîmes' Augustan wall: an octagonal Roman tower, 32.70 m high today, built around an 18 m Gallic dry-stone tower on Mont Cavalier.

Tour Saint-Jacques

Tour Saint-Jacques: flamboyant Gothic bell tower (1509–1523), 54 m tall, sole remnant of the destroyed Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie church in Paris; via Turonensis pilgrimage start, Pascal experiments, UNESCO-listed, closed for works until 2027.

Touran Biosphere Reserve

Touran Biosphere Reserve (Khar Turan), a 1.46-million-hectare UNESCO MAB reserve in Semnan Province, Iran, designated 1976-1977; Iran's largest protected-area complex and the main refuge of the Asiatic cheetah.

Tourbières et lacs du Cézallier et de l'Artense

Tourbières et lacs du Cézallier et de l'Artense: Ramsar site no. 2600, designated 1 September 2026 as France's 58th Ramsar wetland; over 122,500 ha of lakes and peatlands above 1,000 m in the Auvergne volcanoes, Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme.

Touro Synagogue

Touro Synagogue (Newport, Rhode Island), oldest synagogue building in the United States, built 1759–1763, designed by Peter Harrison, dedicated December 2, 1763, National Historic Site since 1946, tied to Washington's 1790 religious-freedom letter.

Tower City Center

Tower City Center is a mixed-use retail, office, and hotel development in downtown Cleveland, opened March 1990 within the former Cleveland Union Terminal complex at Public Square, developed by Forest City Enterprises and later repositioned by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock.