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Bridge over Fosso di Acqua Rossa
Bridge over Fosso di Acqua Rossa: remains of a Roman Republican road bridge (2nd-1st century BCE, Ward-Perkins) over the Fosso di Acqua Rossa near Gallicano nel Lazio, distinct from the nearby Aqua Marcia aqueduct bridge Ponte Lupo.
Bright Angel Lodge
Bright Angel Lodge: 1935 Mary Colter-designed historic hotel on the Grand Canyon South Rim, operated by Xanterra, with 90 units, the Buckey O'Neill Cabin, and the Geologic Fireplace.
Brigiosum
Brigiosum, also Briossus, was a Roman road station in Aquitania on the Poitiers–Bordeaux route, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Auedonnaco and Rarauna and identified with Brioux, Deux-Sèvres, France.
Brills Farm
Brills Farm, Brills Hill, Norton Disney, Lincolnshire: a working farm and B&B whose fields hold an Iron Age defended enclosure or hillfort, cropmark settlement, and 2nd-3rd century Roman-era farming settlement near a scheduled Roman villa.
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999) British fortress built 1690–1853 by enslaved Africans; Fort George Citadel is the earliest surviving polygonal-system fortification, besieged by the French in 1782.
Brindavan Gardens
Brindavan Gardens (ಬೃಂದಾವನ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ), also called Vrindavan Garden Mysore, is a terraced Mughal-style garden below the KRS Dam in Mandya, Karnataka, built 1927–1932 under Dewan Mirza Ismail and famous for its musical fountain.
Brisbane Water National Park
Brisbane Water National Park: NSW national park near Gosford, north of Sydney, established 1 October 1967, about 11,588 ha of Hawkesbury sandstone with Aboriginal engraving sites, 270 native animal species, and Great North Walk sections.
Brislington Roman villa
Brislington Roman villa, Bristol, England: Romano-British villa found in 1899 building Winchester Road, excavated by the Clifton Antiquarian Club; built about AD 270, ten rooms, hypocausts, mosaics, pewter-filled well, destroyed about AD 367-370.
Brissago Islands
Brissago Islands (Isole di Brissago): two Swiss islands in Lake Maggiore, Ticino, forming the canton's botanical garden. Isola Grande holds about 1,700 subtropical species on 2.5 ha; founded 1885 by Baroness de Saint-Léger, opened to the public 1950.
Briva Isarae
Briva Isarae (Brivisara), ancient road station at modern Pontoise, France: a Celtic-named bridge over the Oise (Isara) on the Beauvais-Paris road, listed in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana.
Brives
Brives (Brive), from Gaulish briva meaning bridge or ford: name of several French places, chiefly Brive-la-Gaillarde (ancient Briva Curretia on the Corrèze), plus Brives in Indre, Brives-Charensac in Haute-Loire, and a Pleiades-catalogued ancient road station.
Brivodurum
Brivodurum (Briuoduro, Bribodorum) was a Roman road station in Lugdunensis I on the Autun–Paris road, identified with modern Briare on the Loire; Celtic 'bridge fortress', attested on the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary.
Broadway Macau Casino
Broadway Macau (百老匯娛樂場), Casino Broadway, is a Galaxy Entertainment Group casino, hotel, 3,000-seat theatre, and hawker-style food street in Cotai, Macau, opened 27 May 2015 on the rebranded Casino Waldo site.
Brocavum
Brocavum (Brougham Roman fort) was a Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, occupied from Agricola's governorship (AD 78-84) to the late 4th century, with a 3rd-century vicus, later overlain by Brougham Castle.
Broch of Mousa
Broch of Mousa (Moseyarborg), an Iron Age drystone tower on Mousa, Shetland, built about 300 BC; the tallest and best-preserved broch in Scotland at 13.3 m, named in two Norse sagas and home to storm petrels.
Brodick Castle
Brodick Castle is a category A listed country house and former 13th-century fortress on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, a Hamilton family seat remodelled by James Gillespie Graham in 1844 and owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1957.
Bromo Tengger Semeru-Arjuno Biosphere Reserve
Bromo Tengger Semeru-Arjuno Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in East Java, Indonesia, designated 2015; 413,375 ha of volcanic high-mountain forest around Bromo, Semeru, Arjuno, and Welirang.
Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery, opened 1840 as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery, is a Grade I Magnificent Seven garden cemetery in West London, designed by Benjamin Baud, state-owned since the 1850s, with over 205,000 burials including Emmeline Pankhurst.
Brompton Roman fort
Brompton Roman fort, also called Pentreheyling Roman fort, is a cropmark Roman fort near Brompton, Shropshire, first seen from the air in 1969. Excavated 1977–1998, it was a Flavian-period fort with a vicus, iron smithing, and rare litharge cakes, reoccupied in the 4th century.
Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
Sammallahdenmäki (Kirkonlaattia among its cairns) is a UNESCO World Heritage Bronze Age burial site near Rauma, Finland: 33-36 granite cairns, 1500-500 BC, Gulf of Bothnia.
Bronze Athena/Athena Promachos
Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος), Athena who fights in front: an epithet of the armed city-protectress and the lost colossal bronze Acropolis statue by Pheidias, dated shortly before 450 BC, about 7–16 m tall, moved to Constantinople and destroyed in 1204.
Brooklands Zoo
Brooklands Zoo is a small, free-admission zoo in Brooklands Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand, opened in 1965 and home to native and exotic mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG), founded 1910 in Brooklyn, New York, is a 52-acre not-for-profit botanic garden beside Prospect Park, known for its 1915 Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden by Takeo Shiota, cherry blossom festival, and education programs.
Broomholm
Broomholm, Roman fort SM2524: a Flavian Roman fort on Broomholm Knowe near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, overlying an Iron Age settlement, excavated by Charles Daniels in the 1960s and surveyed geophysically by Glasgow University.
Brownhart Law
Brownhart Law: small Roman fortlet or signal station beside Dere Street in the Cheviots on the Anglo-Scottish border, found from the air in 1945 by St Joseph, linked with Rubers Law, scheduled as SM2168.
Brownshill Dolmen
Brownshill Dolmen (Tuama Ursanach Chnoc A Bhrúnaigh), also Kernanstown Cromlech, is a Neolithic portal tomb 3 km east of Carlow, Ireland, with a granite capstone over 100 tonnes, reputedly Europe's largest; built c. 4000-3000 BC, never excavated.
Broxtowe Roman fort
Broxtowe Roman fort: mid first-century Roman military site (c. 50-60 AD, Neronian/pre-Flavian) buried under the Broxtowe housing estate, north-west Nottingham; possible 12 ha fortress, found 1937, ditch excavated 1964.
Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne (Ireland)
Brú na Bóinne (Bend of the Boyne), County Meath, Ireland: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1993) with the Neolithic passage tombs Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, built circa 3200 BC, holding Europe's largest concentration of megalithic art.
Brühl-Villenhaus
Brühl-Villenhaus is a late Roman burgus, a small fortified road post near Brühl, Germany, named for the nearby forester's house called Villenhaus, not a Roman villa.
Bruto e Pisoni
Bruto e Pisoni: so-called Villas of Brutus and the Pisones, Roman villas in the territory of Tibur (Tivoli, Italy), Barrington Atlas 43 D2, Pleiades place 422853; attribution to the families is traditional and unproven.