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Centennial Hall in Wrocław
Centennial Hall (Hala Stulecia, Jahrhunderthalle) in Wrocław, Poland: Max Berg's 1911–1913 reinforced concrete dome hall, once the world's largest, UNESCO-listed in 2006.
Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is a 21-acre downtown Atlanta park built for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, funded privately, reopened in 1998, and now the heart of the city's tourism district.
Center for Ecological Tourism Stankovo
Цэнтр экалагічнага турызму «Станькава» (Center for Ecological Tourism Stankovo), near Stankovo village, Dzerzhinsky district, Belarus; opened April 2011 by Agrokombinat Dzerzhinsky; zoo with 40+ species, partisan camp reconstruction, 48 km from Minsk.
Central Amazon Biosphere Reserve
Central Amazon Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera da Amazônia Central), UNESCO MAB site in Amazonas, Brazil, designated 2001, covering 19.7 million hectares around the Negro and Solimões rivers and containing the Central Amazon Conservation Complex World Heritage site.
Central Amazon Conservation Complex
Central Amazon Conservation Complex: Brazilian World Heritage site (inscribed 2000, extended 2003) of 5,232,018 ha at the Negro-Solimões confluence, the Amazon Basin's largest protected area, spanning Jaú, Anavilhanas, Amanã, and Mamirauá.
Central Baths (Italy)
The Central Baths (Terme Centrali) of Pompeii were a large Roman bath complex, begun after the AD 62 earthquake and still unfinished when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.
Central Botanical Garden
Central Botanical Garden (조선중앙식물원), also called Pyongyang Central Botanical Garden, is North Korea's largest botanical garden, founded April 30, 1959 at Mt. Taesong, Pyongyang, with thousands of plant species, gift-plant greenhouses, and branch gardens at Samjiyon, Wonsan, and Ongjin.
Central Catalonia UNESCO Global Geopark
Central Catalonia UNESCO Global Geopark (Geoparc Mundial UNESCO de la Catalunya Central), Spain, designated 2015: an Eocene sea's deltas, reefs, and evaporite salts, Montserrat, Toll Caves, and Cardona Salt Mountain mining heritage.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is a vast protected area in Botswana, established in 1961, known for the contested removal of its San residents between 1997 and 2002.
Central Marshes
Central Marshes (Qurna Marshes), southern Iraq wetland complex of the Mesopotamian Marshes; Ramsar site 2241 (2014, 219,700 ha), Ahwar World Heritage component, Iraq's first national park; drained in the 1990s, reflooded after 2003.
Central Park
Central Park is an 843-acre public park in Manhattan, New York City, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux from their 1858 winning Greensward Plan. Built on land displaced from about 1,600 residents including Seneca Village, it now draws 42 million visits yearly and is managed by the Central Park Conservancy, founded 1980.
Central park area
Central park area (German zentraler Parkbereich, French zone centrale de parc) is a GEMET environmental-thesaurus term for the core zone of a park or reserve where no interference with the natural ecosystem is allowed, distinct from the peripheral park area and its buffer zone.
Central Plaza (中环广场) (Hong Kong)
Central Plaza (中环广场) is a 374 m, 78-storey reinforced-concrete office skyscraper at 18 Harbour Road, Wan Chai North, Hong Kong, completed 1992 by DLN Architects and Arup; tallest in Asia 1992–1996 and in Hong Kong until 2003.
Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi
The Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in Hanoi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the seat of Vietnamese power for almost 13 centuries.
Central Sikhote-Alin
Central Sikhote-Alin: UNESCO natural World Heritage site (2001, extended 2018) in the Russian Far East; 1,566,818 ha of Ussuri taiga across Sikhote-Alin Zapovednik, Goralij reserve, and Bikin National Park; main Amur tiger habitat.
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
Central Suriname Nature Reserve (Centraal Suriname Natuurreservaat): a 1.6-million-hectare UNESCO World Heritage tropical forest reserve in west-central Suriname, created in 1998 and inscribed in 2000 as the country's first World Heritage Site.
Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Central University City Campus of UNAM (Ciudad Universitaria, Campus Central): main campus of Mexico's national university in southern Mexico City, built 1949-1952 by over 60 architects under Mario Pani and Enrique del Moral, with murals by Rivera, Siqueiros and O'Gorman; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007.
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
UNESCO World Heritage Site, inscribed 7 December 1983 under criteria (iv) and (vi), covering the historic core of Angra do Heroísmo on Terceira Island, Azores: an obligatory Atlantic port of call from the 15th to 19th centuries, damaged by the 1980 earthquake and restored.
Central Zoo (North Korea)
Central Zoo (조선중앙동물원), North Korea's largest zoo, opened April 1959 at Mt Taesong, Pyongyang; rebuilt 2016 with Natural History Museum, 850+ species, gift animals from Putin, Seoul Grand Park exchanges.
Centre Cynégétique de Tlemcen
Centre Cynégétique de Tlemcen (CCT), Algerian public game-breeding center created by decree 83-79 of 8 January 1983 in the Zarifet forest near Tlemcen; breeds Cuvier's gazelle, ostrich, and game birds for research, acclimatization, and reintroduction.
Centre de loisirs familial Khidel El-Safi;مركز الترفيه العائلي خيدل الصافي
Centre de loisirs familial Khidel El-Safi (مركز الترفيه العائلي خيدل الصافي), also called Centre de loisirs Tamanrasset, is an ANP-operated family leisure center and theme park in Tamanrasset, Algeria, named in December 2018 after moudjahid Khidel El-Safi, born 1930.
Centroni
Villa dei Centroni: a large late Republican Roman villa on the Via Latina's ninth mile in Rome's suburb, with 200-meter substructures, a 33.18 × 9.60 m natatio, and its own aqueduct.
Centum Celas
Centum Celas (Centum Cellas, Torre de São Cornélio) is a Roman villa site with a 12-metre granite tower at Colmeal da Torre, Belmonte, Portugal; a national monument since 1927, attributed to Lucius Caecilius, a 1st-century tin dealer.
Centum Putea
Centum Putea, a station on the Tabula Peutingeriana road in Roman Dacia, tentatively identified with the auxiliary fort at Surducu Mare, Caraș-Severin, Romania: a 128 x 132 m timber-and-earth fort abandoned under Hadrian.
Cercadilla
Cercadilla (Palatium Maximiani) is an archaeological site in Córdoba, Spain: a tetrarchic Roman palace of 293–305 AD attributed to Maximian Herculius, later a Christian cult center and Umayyad caliphal suburb, largely destroyed in 1991 for the AVE station.
Ceres et Faustina (temple)
Ceres et Faustina (temple): Roman temple of about 160 AD in Herodes Atticus's Triopio, Caffarella valley, Rome, honoring Ceres and deified Faustina; now the church of Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella, distinct from the Forum temple of Antoninus and Faustina.
Cerrado Biosphere Reserve
Cerrado Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera do Cerrado), a UNESCO MAB site nominated in 1994 in Brazil's Tocantins, Maranhão, and Piauí states, covering 76,239,780 ha of savanna with 693,720 residents.
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks, a Brazilian natural World Heritage site (2001) in Goiás, 381,430 ha, protecting Cerrado savanna biodiversity, large mammals, and aquifer recharge areas.
Cerro da Vila
Cerro da Vila (Ruínas Romanas do Cerro da Vila) is a Roman maritime villa and vicus maritimus in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, occupied 1st–5th centuries CE and later by Visigoths and Muslims to the 11th century, with garum fish-processing factories, baths, mosaics, a silted lagoon harbour, and an on-site museum.
Cerro de la Estrella
Cerro de la Estrella (Huizachtepetl), hill and archaeological zone in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, site of the Aztec New Fire ceremony every 52 years (1351, 1403, 1455, 1507), occupied from 1000 BC to 1521.