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Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Paray-le-Monial)
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Paray-le-Monial (Basilique du Sacré-Cœur): Cluniac Romanesque priory church begun 1092 under Abbot Hugh of Semur as a smaller Cluny III; minor basilica since 1875, major Sacred Heart pilgrimage site.
Basilica Portuense
Basilica Portuense: the Early-Christian basilica of Portus, Rome's imperial harbour, built c. 375 AD, enlarged c. 430 and in the 6th century, abandoned in the 13th century, excavated 1991-2007 under Lidia Paroli.
Baška Aquarium
Baška Aquarium (Akvarij Baška) is a small marine aquarium and shell collection in Baška on Krk island, Croatia: 21 tanks, 35 m³ of seawater, over 100 Adriatic fish species, about 400 shell and snail species, open April–October.
Basmat Park
Basmat Park (منتزه بسمات في الجديد) is a public park in Kafr Ra'i, Jenin Governorate, Palestine, documented in a 2008 photograph in the Palestine Remembered village archive.
Basra Land
Basra Land (مدينة ملاهي البصرة, بصرة لاند) is an operating amusement park in Basra, Iraq, with a Ferris wheel, roller coaster, carousels, and family rides; distinct from Basra Family Park and Happy Land.
Bassai
Bassai (Bassae, Βάσσαι) is an Arcadian mountain sanctuary near Phigaleia, Greece, home to the Temple of Apollo Epicurius (420-400 BC), attributed to Iktinos, combining Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders with the oldest surviving Corinthian capital; UNESCO listed 1986.
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in south-eastern Senegal, inscribed in 2012 under criteria (iii), (v) and (vi), covering 50,309 ha across the Bassari–Salémata, Bedik–Bandafassi and Fula–Dindéfello areas.
Basse Vallée de l'Ouémé, Lagune de Porto-Novo, Lac Nokoué
Basse Vallée de l'Ouémé, Lagune de Porto-Novo, Lac Nokoué, Ramsar Site 1018 in southern Benin: a 652,760 ha wetland complex of the lower Ouémé River, Porto-Novo Lagoon, and Lake Nokoué, designated in 2000 and extended in 2018.
Bassiacum
Bassiacum, Latin toponym of Roman Gaul, an -ako- derivative of the personal name Bassius, attested as Bassiaco in Palladius; related Bassiniacum is the Latin name of the Bassigny, Haute-Marne, France.
Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve
Bassin de la Dordogne Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère du bassin de la Dordogne), UNESCO biosphere reserve designated 11 July 2012 in France; first in the world covering an entire watershed, about 24,000 km², 1.2 million inhabitants, coordinated by EPIDOR.
Bassin de la Lufira
Bassin de la Lufira, Ramsar Site no. 2318 in DR Congo's Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, and Lualaba provinces; 4,470,993-ha wetland designated 31 October 2017, the country's fourth Ramsar site, with endemic weavers, reptiles, and mining-pollution threats.
Bassin versant Oti-Mandouri
Bassin versant Oti-Mandouri, Ramsar site no. 1721, is a 425,000-hectare faunal reserve and wetland complex on the Oti River in Togo's Savanes region, designated 2 February 2008, with 27 mammal and 37 fish species and vulnerable hippos and elephants.
Başur Höyük
Başur Höyük, Early Bronze Age cemetery mound in Siirt province, southeast Turkey (3100–2900 BCE), with cist tombs, human sacrifice retainer burials, ~1000 metal objects, ~100,000 beads, and a 40-piece stone game set.
Bat's Castle
Bat's Castle is an Iron Age small multivallate hillfort with a cross-ridge outwork on Gallox Hill, Carhampton, Exmoor, Somerset; scheduled monument 1007667, 1.2 ha, with a 1983 coin hoard spanning 102 BC to AD 350.
Batavi
Batavi (Batavis, Castra Batava) was a Roman fort and fortified settlement on the Danube-Inn confluence at modern Passau, Bavaria, in Raetia; its name evolved into "Passau", and its late Roman remains lie under the old town.
Bath at northwest foot of the Areopagus
The Bath at northwest foot of the Areopagus, known as the Southwest Baths, was a public bathing complex at the Athenian Agora, in use from the 2nd century BC to the late 6th century AD.
Bath C3
Bath C3 is a Roman bathhouse in block C3 of Dura-Europos, Syria, built of brick around 210 to 215 CE and apparently constructed by the Roman military garrison.
Bath E3 Phase 2
Bath E3 Phase 2, also called Bath E3/E4 or E3/E4 Bathing Complex, is the second building phase of the Roman military bath E3 at Dura-Europos, Syria: a 700 sq m early 3rd-century bath replacing Phase 1, with hypocausts, aqueduct, and palaestra in Block E4.
Bath M7
Bath M7, Dura-Europos Roman bathhouse in block M7 near the Palmyrene Gate, built of brick around 210-215 CE, attributed to the Roman garrison and used mainly by soldiers.
Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis
Bath-Gymnasium Complex at Sardis: monumental Roman bath-gymnasium in Lydia, Turkey, about 23,000 m2, with Marble Court imperial cult hall (211/212 AD) and later Sardis Synagogue; excavated and reconstructed by the Harvard-Cornell Expedition, 1964-1973.
Bathhouse Row
Bathhouse Row: eight historic bathhouses (1892–1923) along Central Avenue in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas; largest surviving early 20th-century bathhouse collection in the U.S., National Historic Landmark since 1987, with Buckstaff and Quapaw still bathing.
Baths of Antoninus at Carthage
Baths of Antoninus (Antoninian Baths), Carthage, Tunisia: 2nd-century Roman thermae, largest in Africa and outside Rome, built under Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, fed by the Zaghouan aqueduct, destroyed after the Vandal conquest.
Baths of Cilurnum
Baths of Cilurnum: the external bathhouse of Chesters Roman Fort (Cilurnum) on Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Hadrianic, uncovered 1884–5, the most complete Roman baths visible in Britain, with caldaria, tepidaria, frigidaria, and hypocaust heating.
Baths of Decius
Baths of Decius (Thermae Decianae), imperial Roman bath complex built by Emperor Decius on the Aventine Hill around 249-252 AD, serving the wealthy Aventine district; known from Palladio's plan, restored in 414.
Baths of Diocletian
Thermae Diocletiani (Baths of Diocletian, Terme di Diocleziano): largest imperial bath complex of ancient Rome, built 298-306 AD by Maximian for Diocletian, 13 hectares, 3,000 bathers; now a National Roman Museum site.
Baths of the Philosopher
Baths of the Philosopher (Terme del Filosofo, V,II,6-7): small Roman baths in region V of Ostia, Italy, named for two busts perhaps of Plotinus; built from Trajanic times, with baths added in the later third century AD.
Batiana
Batiana, a Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Acunum and Valentia, also Vacianis/Bantianis and Untiana; identified near Baix or Étoile-sur-Rhône, France. Not the Batina-Sredno archaeological site.
Batoţi
Batoţi, a village in Devesel commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania, is an archaeological zone on the Danube with a Roman stone castrum (only the southeastern corner survives) and Neolithic to medieval settlement sites (RAN 111505.01, 111505.02).
Batten Hanger
Batten Hanger (Elsted, West Sussex) is a scheduled Romano-British villa occupied from the first to mid-fifth century, where a late Roman aisled hall, coin hoard, cemetery, and temple show rare firm fifth-century occupancy.
Battersea Park
Battersea Park is an 83-hectare Grade II Victorian park on the south bank of the Thames in Wandsworth, London, opened in 1854, with a lake, Subtropical Garden, Festival Gardens site, Peace Pagoda, and children's zoo.