Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Castro

Castro most often means Fidel Castro (فيدل كاسترو), Cuba's 1959–2008 leader who overthrew Batista and shut down Havana's mob casinos. Also: San Francisco's Castro district, Castro culture of Iron Age Iberia, and various businesses.

Castro Verde Biosphere Reserve

Castro Verde Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera de Castro Verde), UNESCO MAB site designated 14 June 2017 in Baixo Alentejo, Portugal; 56,944 ha of cereal steppe with great bustard and Montagu's harrier, managed by the municipality, farmers' association, and LPN.

Cat Stane

The Cat Stane (Catstane) is a Latin-inscribed standing stone and long cist cemetery inside Edinburgh Airport's perimeter, Kirkliston, commemorating Vetta, daughter of Victricius, one of the earliest Christian monuments in south-east Scotland.

Catacomb of Apronianus

Catacomb of Apronianus (Catacomba di Aproniano, Coemeterium Aproniani), an early Christian underground cemetery on the Via Latina in Rome; burial place of Saint Eugenia, rediscovered in 1937, with a Jonah-cycle mosaic.

Catacomb of Balbina

Catacomb of Balbina (Catacomba di Balbina), an early Christian Roman cemetery between the Via Appia and Via Ardeatina in the Callixtian complex, named for landowner Balbina, burial place of Pope Mark (336), identified only tentatively with ruins found in 1991.

Catacomb of Ponziano

Catacomb of Ponziano (Catacomba di Ponziano), also called catacombs of Abdon and Sennen or Coemeterium ad Ursum Pileatum: a closed-to-public early Christian cemetery on Rome's Monteverde hill, dug in the late 3rd century, developed in the 4th, with a 5th-6th century baptistery pool.

Catacomb of San Zotico

Catacomb of San Zotico: late 3rd-century Christian catacomb at the 10th mile of the ancient via Labicana, Borghesiana, Rome, tied to martyrs Zotico and Amanzio; herringbone plan, found early 1700s, excavated 1998.

Catacomba di San Giovanni

The Catacomba di San Giovanni is a large early Christian catacomb in Syracuse, Sicily, excavated between 315 and 360 and second in size in Italy only to Rome's.

Catacombe Ad Decimum

Catacombe Ad Decimum, an early Christian catacomb at Grottaferrata near Rome on the Via Latina's tenth mile; discovered 1905, used 3rd-5th centuries, about 1,000 tombs, frescoes, Greek and Latin inscriptions, distinct from the Carthage road station of the same name.

Catacombe dei Cappuccini

Catacombe dei Cappuccini, Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily: convent cemetery displaying ca 1600-1900 mummified friars and citizens, including Rosalia Lombardo, open daily with €5 admission.

Catacombe di San Sebastiano

Catacombe di San Sebastiano, Rome catacombs on the Via Appia Antica 136; origin of the word 'catacomb' (ad catacumbas); 12 km of galleries, Memoria Apostolorum, pagan mausoleums, guided visits only, closed Mondays.

Catacombs

Catacombs are underground burial galleries; the term originally named Rome's St. Sebastian cemetery and now also covers the Paris Catacombs, a quarry ossuary holding about six million Parisians' remains, reopened in 2026 after renovation.

Catacombs of Commodilla

Catacombs of Commodilla (Catacomba di Commodilla): early Christian catacomb on Rome's Via delle Sette Chiese near St Paul Outside the Walls, holding the tomb of martyrs Felix and Adauctus, an underground basilica, and the Latin-to-Italian Commodilla graffito.

Catacombs of Domitilla

Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome's largest early Christian catacomb on the Via Ardeatina, named for Flavia Domitilla; about 17 km of galleries on four levels, 150,000 burials, and an underground basilica of martyrs Nereus and Achilleus.

Catacombs of Generosa

The Catacombs of Generosa (Catacomba di Generosa) is an early Christian catacomb in Rome, known for the tombs of the martyrs Simplicius, Faustinus, and Viatrix.

Catacombs of Paris

The Catacombs of Paris (Les Catacombes de Paris) are the world's largest underground ossuary, in former Tombe-Issoire quarries, consecrated 1786, holding remains of several million Parisians transferred from closed cemeteries.

Catacombs of Praetextatus

Catacombs of Praetextatus (Catacomba di Pretestato, Coemeterium Praetextati): early Christian catacomb at the second mile of Rome's Via Appia, begun early 3rd century on Herodes Atticus' Pago Triopio, with the Spelunca Magna, martyrs' tombs, and the oldest Christ-Coronatio fresco.

Catacombs of San Senatore

Catacombs of San Senatore (Catacomba di San Senatore), early Christian catacomb at the 15th mile of the Via Appia in Albano Laziale, Italy, cut into a pozzolana quarry, used from the late 3rd to 9th century, with martyr Senator's crypt and paleo-Christian and medieval frescoes.

Catacombs of Trypiti

Catacombs of Trypiti (Catacombs of Milos, Κατακόμβες της Μήλου): early Christian rock-cut cemetery near Trypiti village on Milos, Greece, in use mid-1st to 6th/7th century AD, with about 200 m of tuff galleries, arcosolia, loculi, and pit graves; the largest early-Christian burial complex in Greece.

Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí

A group of nine 11th- and 12th-century Lombard Romanesque churches in a high Pyrenean valley of Catalonia, inscribed by UNESCO as World Heritage in 2000.

Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük (Çatal Höyük): Neolithic-Chalcolithic twin-mound settlement on Turkey's Konya Plain, occupied c. 7400–5200 BC, famous for streetless roof-access mudbrick houses, subfloor burials, wall art, and the Mother Goddess debate.

Catalonia in Miniature

Catalunya en Miniatura (Catalonia in Miniature), open-air theme park in Torrelles de Llobregat near Barcelona, opened May 1983; 1:25 scale models of Catalan monuments on a 25,000 m2 map, plus Bosc Animat zip-line circuits added 2008; declared National Tourist Interest.

Oct 22, 2026

Catawba Indian Reservation

The Catawba Indian Reservation is the land base of the Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina's only federally recognized tribe, along the Catawba River near Rock Hill, reestablished in 1993.

Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Armenia, inscribed 2000: Echmiatsin Cathedral (301-303), St Gayane, St Hripsime, St Shoghakat churches, and the ruined 7th-century Zvartnots temple.

Cathedral Caverns State Park

Cathedral Caverns State Park, near Grant in Marshall County, Alabama, is a show cave state park opened in 2000, known for its 128-foot-wide entrance, the Goliath stalagmite (45 feet tall, 243 feet around), and Mystery River.

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims): three French monuments, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1991, forming the coronation sites of the kings of France.

Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, Paris

Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides (cathédrale Saint-Louis-des-Invalides), the soldiers' church of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, and since 1986 the cathedral of the French armies; built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart from 1676, opened 1679, with the Dôme inaugurated 1706.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is the Episcopal Diocese of New York's cathedral. Begun 1892 (Heins & LaFarge, then Cram's French Gothic), still unfinished, 601 feet long, world's largest cathedral by floor area.

Cathedral of Syracuse

Cathedral of Syracuse (Duomo di Siracusa, Cattedrale della Natività di Maria Santissima): Baroque cathedral on Ortigia built into a 5th-century BC Greek temple of Athena; Byzantine basilica from the 6th-7th century, facade completed 1753 by Andrea Palma, UNESCO site.