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Bedwyn
Bedwyn, or Great Bedwyn, a historic parish and former Saxon borough with a mint in Wiltshire, England; charter of 778, Domesday borough, Castle Copse Roman villa, Seymour family, and Reform Act 1832 disenfranchisement.
Beechwood Cemetery
Beechwood Cemetery, also known as the National Cemetery of Canada, is a burial ground in Ottawa established in 1873 and recognized by Parliament in 2009.
Beeston Castle
Beeston Castle: ruined 13th-century enclosure castle in Cheshire, built from 1226 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, on a prehistoric hillfort site; seized by Henry III in 1237, besieged and slighted in the Civil War, now an English Heritage scheduled monument.
Beethoven Monument
Beethoven Monument (Beethoven-Denkmal): bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven by Ernst Julius Hähnel on Bonn's Münsterplatz, unveiled 12 August 1845 after Liszt's funding, with the first Beethoven Festival; restored 2022.
Béhen
Béhen (Somme, Picardy) is a Gallo-Roman villa site that took villa form only in the later 2nd century CE, gained a courtyard plan in the 3rd, and was abandoned a generation later; cited in Reddé's villa typology.
Behesht Garden
Behesht Garden (Bagh-e Behesht, Bagh-e Lark), a historic estate in northeast Tehran bought in 1933 by Hilda Bewicke, wife of General Hassan Danesh-Arefi; a planned dairy-farming community later hit by inheritance tax and confiscation disputes.
Beifang Forest Zoo
Beifang Forest Zoo (Harbin Northern Forest Zoo) is a large forest zoo in the Gezidong area near Harbin, China, opened in 2004 and rated a national 4A scenic area.
Beijing Badaling Wildlife Safari
Beijing Badaling Wildlife World (八达岭野生动物世界), a 400-hectare drive-through safari park in Yanqing, Beijing, at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall; China's largest mountain wildlife park, with nearly 10,000 animals, 90-yuan admission, and a 2016 fatal tiger attack.
Beijing Botanical Garden
Beijing Botanical Garden (北京市植物园), founded 1956 in Haidian, Beijing; since 2022 the North Garden of the China National Botanical Garden, with 15,000 plant species, 14 themed gardens, and a large conservatory.
Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese Capital
Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线), a 7.8 km north-south ensemble of palaces, temples, gates, and public buildings organizing old Beijing, originated in Yuan-dynasty Dadu, follows the Kaogongji ideal capital paradigm, and was inscribed by UNESCO in July 2024 as China's 59th World Heritage site.
Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park
Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park (北京石景山游乐园) is a government-run AAAA amusement park in Shijingshan District, Beijing, opened September 28, 1986; known for its Cinderella castle, Ferris wheel, pay-per-ride pricing, and seasonal festivals.
Beijing Wildlife Park
Beijing Wildlife Park (北京野生动物园), opened 2001 in Yufa, Daxing District, is a Beijing Tourism Group safari park with 5,000+ animals of 300+ species, a 10 km drive-through safari, predator zone, and walking area.
Beijing Zoo (北京动物园)
Beijing Zoo (北京动物园), founded 1906 as the Qing Agricultural Experiment Station's Wanshengyuan outside Xizhimen, is China's oldest public zoo; renamed 1955, it holds 80.05 hectares, about 400 species, 5,000+ animals, and a new 2026 Giant Panda House.
Belair National Park
Belair National Park is a protected reserve in the Adelaide Hills, 13 km from Adelaide. Proclaimed in 1891, it was the first national park in South Australia.
Belambangan Biosphere Reserve
Belambangan (Blambangan) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in East Java, Indonesia, designated 2016, combining Alas Purwo, Baluran and Meru Betiri national parks and Kawah Ijen Nature Reserve.
Belas Knap Longbarrow
Belas Knap Longbarrow, a Neolithic Cotswold-Severn chambered long barrow near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, with a false northern entrance, four side chambers, 31 excavated burials, and Ministry of Works restoration in 1929-31.
Belca
Belca: ancient Gallic roadside settlement of the Carnutes in Gallia Lugdunensis, on the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary; identified with Beauche/Biauche at Dampierre-en-Burly, Loiret, France, on the Cenabum–Augustodunum road.
Belém Palace
Belém Palace, also known as Palácio de Belém, is a former royal palace in Lisbon that has been the official residence of Portugal's president since 1910.
Belevi Mausoleum
Belevi Mausoleum: early Hellenistic royal tomb near Ephesus, Ionia, built c. 310-280/70 BC, attributed to Antigonos I Monophthalmos; rock-cored podium with Corinthian peristasis, second only to Halicarnassus.
Belfries of Belgium and France
Belfries of Belgium and France (Beffrois de Belgique et de France), UNESCO World Heritage Site of 56 civic towers, 33 in Belgium and 23 in northern France, inscribed 1999 and extended 2005 under criteria (ii) and (iv).
Belgrade Fortress (Београдска тврђава)
Belgrade Fortress, also known as Kalemegdan Fortress, is a fortified complex above the confluence of the Sava and Danube in Belgrade, Serbia, built and rebuilt from the 1st to the 18th century.
Beliandrum
Beliandrum is a road station in the Roman province of Noricum, in present-day Austria, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana on the road toward Virunum; its exact site remains debated, with Feldkirchen a leading candidate.
Belitong UNESCO Global Geopark
Belitong UNESCO Global Geopark (Belitung Island, Indonesia), designated April 2021; 4,800 km2 land plus 13,000 km2 sea, tor granite, Satam tektites, Nam Salu tin lode; Yellow Card revalidation status since 2024.
Bell Tower (near Hereford)
Bell Tower (near Hereford): the Grade I listed detached 13th-century sandstone belfry of Holy Trinity Church, Bosbury, Herefordshire; 8.8 m square, refuge-like design, ring of six bells, one of about seven detached towers in the county.
Bell Tower (near Peterborough)
Bell Tower (near Peterborough): the Grade I detached medieval bell tower with spire at Fleet, Lincolnshire (NHLE 1064521), built c.1300, restored 1798 and 1843, serving the Church of St Mary Magdalen.
Belle Isle
Belle Isle is the name of several places, most notably a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and state-managed since 2014.
Bellefontaine Cemetery
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri: nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum founded 1849, first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi, 314 acres, over 86,000 interments, Wainwright Tomb and Busch Mausoleum, Level III accredited arboretum.
Belleroche
Belleroche (Belle-Roche) names two Belgian archaeological sites: the Belle-Roche fossil cave at Sprimont, Liège, with ~500,000-year-old Cromerian fauna and the Benelux's oldest human-occupation trace, and Bellerochelaan at Oudenburg, a multi-period Roman settlement site.
Bellevue Palace, Germany
Schloss Bellevue (Bellevue Palace) is the white neoclassical official residence of the German Federal President in Berlin-Tiergarten, built 1785–1787 for Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia and the Federal President's principal seat since 1994.
Bellintum
Bellintum, a Roman mutatio (road station) in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the Bordeaux Itinerary (553) on the Arelate–Arausio road, 5 miles from Avignon; identified with Barbentane by D'Anville.