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Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997, criteria i-iv) grouping Modena's 12th-century Romanesque cathedral by Lanfranco and Wiligelmo, the Ghirlandina tower completed 1319, and the main square.
Çatıören
Çatıören: ancient settlement in Erdemli, Mersin Province, Turkey, 7 km north of Elaiussa Sebaste; Hellenistic fort, Doric Temple of Hermes, and Greek inscriptions of a Sabbatistai community.
Catuiacia
Catuiacia: Roman road station in Gallia Narbonensis on the Via Domitia between Segustero (Sisteron) and Apta Iulia (Apt), named in the Tabula Peutingeriana, Antonine Itinerary, and CIL XI 3281–3284; probably near Céreste, France.
Cătunele
Cătunele, Gorj County, Romania: village on the Motru river with a 156 x 114 m Roman fort guarding the Drobeta road, 1982-1984 excavations, a medieval monastery site (Valea Mănăstirii), and a 3rd-century gold ring found in 2025.
Caturigomagus
Caturigomagus was a small Gallo-Roman town and civitas capital at modern Chorges in the Hautes-Alpes, France, the principal town of the Alpine people called the Caturiges.
Causewayed enclosure
Causewayed enclosure, also causewayed camp or interrupted-ditch enclosure: early Neolithic European monument of segmented ditches with causeway gaps, built in Britain about 3800-3500 BC, used for gathering, ritual and burial.
Causilena
Causilena is an ancient place cited as BAtlas 20 F4 in the Barrington Atlas and cataloged in the Pleiades gazetteer, with a July 2025 record update by Jeffrey Becker and Tom Elliott.
Causses de Quercy UNESCO Global Geopark
Causses de Quercy UNESCO Global Geopark (Causses du Quercy), designated 2017 in Occitanie, France: a 1,855 km² Jurassic limestone karst plateau managed by the regional natural park, famed for phosphate caves with 52–20 Ma fossils and the Grande Coupure record.
Cave 1 at Udayagiri
Cave 1 (Suraj Gufa) at Udayagiri, Vidisha: a small partly rock-cut, partly built Gupta-period shrine, the southernmost of the hill's 20 caves; distinct from Odisha's Rani Gumpha Cave 1.
Cave 19 at Udayagiri
Cave 19, the Amrita Cave, is the largest Gupta-period rock-cut cave at Udayagiri near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh; a Shaivite shrine with an ekamukhalinga, a Samudra Manthan lintel, and 11th-century Nagari inscriptions.
Cave di Cusa
Cave di Cusa (Rocche di Cusa), ancient calcarenite quarry near Campobello di Mazara, Sicily, about 13 km from Selinunte; supplied temple stone from the 6th century BC until 409 BC, when Carthaginian conquest left roughly 60 unfinished blocks in place.
Cave of Pan and the Nymphs
Cave of Pan and the Nymphs (Nympholyptos Cave), Vari: ancient Greek cave sanctuary on Mount Hymettus, Attica, built up by the nympholept Archedamos of Thera and used from the early fifth century BC to Late Antiquity.
Caveirac milestone
Caveirac milestone (Borne milliaire au nom d'Auguste de Caveirac): a Roman milestone of 3 BC dedicated to Augustus, moved from the Via Domitia to Caveirac, Gard, France; classified monument historique in 1911, now at place du Château.
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura: UNESCO World Heritage site (2017) of six caves in the Ach and Lone valleys, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with Aurignacian figurines, flutes, and ornaments dated 43,000–33,000 years ago.
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin, a 2014 UNESCO World Heritage Site in Israel's Judean Lowlands (Shfela), a 'city under a city' of over a thousand man-made chalk caves used from the Iron Age to the Crusades.
Çayönü
Çayönü Tepesi (Çayönü) is a Neolithic mound near Ergani, Diyarbakır, Turkey, occupied ca. 10,000–6,000 BCE, known for the round-to-rectangular house sequence, Skull and Terrazzo buildings, early native copper working, and early farming.
Cayos Miskitos y Franja Costera Immediata
Cayos Miskitos y Franja Costera Inmediata, a Nicaraguan Caribbean marine biological reserve (Ramsar site 1135, 2001, 85,000 ha), protecting mangrove cays, seagrass, coral reefs, green turtles, manatees, and tucuxi dolphins.
Cebrus
Cebrus (Ciabrus, Greek Kebros) was a right tributary of the Danube, the modern Tsibritsa in Bulgaria, and a Roman road station and fort at Dolni Tsibar; it marked the Moesia Superior/Inferior boundary and hosted late Roman cavalry units.
Cedar Point
Cedar Point is a 364-acre amusement park on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, opened in 1870 and known as America's Roller Coast for its 18-plus record-setting coasters, now owned by Six Flags after the 2024 Cedar Fair merger.
Cedonia
Cedonia (Cedoniae), a Roman fort and road station in Dacia on the Romula–Apulum road, attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana and Ravenna Cosmography, tentatively placed at Gușterița near Sibiu, Romania; distinct from the Italian town Lacedonia.
Cedros
Cedros was a Roman mutatio (road station) in Gallia Narbonensis on the Toulouse–Carcassonne road, listed in the fourth-century Bordeaux itinerary six miles from Vicus Hebromago; usually placed near Caux, possibly Villeséquelande.
Celeusum
Celeusum (Tabula Peutingeriana: Celeuso) was a Roman cavalry fort at Pförring, Bavaria, on the Raetian Danube frontier; ORL 75, 3.9 ha, garrisoned by Ala I Flavia Singularium, named in an AD 141 building inscription.
Cemeteries of Belgrade's New Cemetery
The New Cemetery (Novo groblje) is a major cemetery in Belgrade, Serbia, opened in 1886 and now covering almost 31 hectares, with hundreds of thousands of burials.
Cemetery
Cemetery (from Latin coemeterium, dormitory): a burial ground separate from churchyards. Key facts: Père Lachaise opened 1804 as the first garden cemetery; London's Magnificent Seven followed 1832-1841; cemeteries serve as urban green space and heritage sites.
Cemetery of Gordianus, Epimachus, Apronianus
Cemetery of Gordianus, Epimachus, Apronianus, early Christian catacombs on the Via Latina, Rome, named for martyrs Gordianus, Epimachus, and Apronianus; rediscovered 1933 and 1937, with a Jonah mosaic and medieval memorial churches.
Cemetery of the Garamantes (Libya)
Cemetery of the Garamantes: ancient burial grounds along the el-Agial (Wadi al-Ajal) escarpment, Fezzan, Libya, including the Royal Cemetery GSC030-031 near Old Jarma, with Late Garamantian stepped tombs, stelae, and offering tables.
Centcelles Roman villa
Centcelles Roman villa (Constantí, Tarragona, Spain): late-antique villa complex with a 4th-century domed hall bearing the oldest Christian dome mosaics of the Roman world; interpreted as mausoleum, aristocratic villa, or military sanctuary; UNESCO Tarraco since 2000.
Centenarium Aqua Frigida
Centenarium Aqua Frigida: Roman fortified grain-house (centenarium) at Kefrida Pass, Algeria, known only from CIL VIII 20215 recording its 293 CE restoration by governor Aurelius Litua on the Saldae-Sitifis road near Muslubium.
Centenarium Aqua Viva
Centenarium Aqua Viva (Oued Naima, near M'doukal, Algeria): a Diocletianic Roman frontier fort in Numidia, built 303 AD, 86.80 × 85.90 m, dated by a Latin building inscription naming Valerius Alexander and Valerius Ingenuus.
Centenarium Tibubuci
Centenarium Tibubuci, also Ksar Tarcine (قصر ترسين), is a late Roman fortlet on the Oued el-Hallouf in southern Tunisia on the Limes Tripolitanus, identified by a Diocletianic building inscription naming governor Aurelius Quintianus and estimated to house about 22 cavalrymen.