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Cibodas Biosphere Reserve
Cibodas Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer Cibodas), a UNESCO MAB site in West Java, Indonesia, designated 1977 around Gunung Gede-Pangrango National Park; 117,239 ha, volcanoes Gede and Pangrango, water for 20 million people, invasive plant pressures.
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande (Cabo Verde): the first European colonial town in the tropics, founded on Santiago in the 15th century, a hub of Atlantic slave trade and first Creole society, UNESCO-listed in 2009.
Ciénaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud
Ciénaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud, Ramsar site 1234, a 126,200-hectare wetland in southern Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, designated 18 November 2002; karst, mangroves, Cuban crocodile reintroduction, turtles, and waterbirds.
Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta Biosphere Reserve
Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve (2000) over Colombia's largest brackish coastal lagoon in Magdalena department; also a 1998 Ramsar site and 1977 flora and fauna sanctuary, with major mangrove loss and a Hydrilla invasion.
Ciepłe
Ciepłe (German: Warmhof), village in gmina Gniew, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, site of a late 10th-century Piast settlement complex with three strongholds, two chamber-grave cemeteries, and the famous grave of an armed merchant.
Cier
Cier is an ancient place in Aquitania (Barrington Atlas 25 F2), at modern Cier-de-Rivière, Haute-Garonne, France, known for a Roman-period marble quarry; also a stream, an affluent of the Gers.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano Biosphere Reserve
Cilento and Vallo di Diano Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in Campania, southern Italy, designated 1997; 395,503 ha around the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park, with karst mountains, Mediterranean forest, and Paestum.
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with Paestum, Velia, and the Certosa di Padula: UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Salerno, Campania, inscribed 1998 (criteria iii, iv), 159,110 ha, with Greek temples, the Eleatic School, and a Baroque charterhouse.
Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark
Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni UNESCO Global Geopark, in Salerno province, Campania, Italy, designated 2015 after joining the European Geoparks Network in 2010; covers 181,000 ha, 270,000 people, Southern Apennines karst, and holds Geopark, Biosphere Reserve, and World Heritage status.
Ciletuh - Palabuhanratu UNESCO Global Geopark
Ciletuh-Palabuhanratu UNESCO Global Geopark (CPUGGp), in western Sukabumi Regency, West Java, Indonesia, is a 1,261 km2 geopark designated by UNESCO on 17 April 2018, known for Cretaceous subduction-fossil rocks, the Jampang Plateau, a horseshoe amphitheater, and Green Card status for 2026–2029.
Cima tumulus
Cima tumulus (Tumulo Cima), largest Etruscan tumulus of the San Giuliano necropolis at Barbarano Romano, Italy; Orientalizing, 7th century BC, with the seven-chamber rock-cut Tomba Cima and a unique obelisk-cippus cult area.
Cimitero Maggiore
Cimitero Maggiore, also called Catacomba Maggiore, is an early Christian underground cemetery in Rome on the Via Nomentana, begun in the 3rd century AD from an abandoned villa.
Cincşor
Cincşor (Kleinschenk, Kissink) is a Transylvanian Saxon village in Voila commune, Brașov County, Romania, on the Olt river, known for its Gothic fortified church completed in 1421 with four defence towers and doubled walls.
Cinniana
Cinniana (also Cilniana) is a Roman road station name in Hispania: one on the Summus Pyrenaeus–Barcino road in the Peutinger Table, and a Baetican mansio near Marbella linked to the Las Bóvedas baths.
Cinquantenaire Arcade
Cinquantenaire Arcade (Arcade du Cinquantenaire, Arcade van het Jubelpark): triple memorial arcade in Brussels' Parc du Cinquantenaire, designed by Charles Girault, inaugurated 1905 for Belgium's 75th independence anniversary, crowned by Vinçotte's quadriga.
Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre: five medieval Ligurian coastal villages (Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore) on 15 km of terraced Italian coast, a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape since 1997, now a national park managing heavy overtourism.
Cinturón Andino Biosphere Reserve
Cinturón Andino Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 1979 in the Macizo Colombiano of southern Colombia, comprising Cueva de los Guácharos, Puracé, and Nevado del Huila national parks and headwaters of the Magdalena, Cauca, and Caquetá rivers.
Circular Mound, the Site of A Temple
Circular Mound, the Site of A Temple at Khairai, Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI archaeological mound, described by F. S. Growse in 1885, with temple foundations, steps, and sandstone blocks possibly from a colossal lingam.
Circular Shaped Mound and the Remains of A Stupa
Circular shaped mound and the remains of a stupa, at Chhetiaon, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, is an ASI centrally protected Buddhist site with excavated 2nd-3rd century CE stupa chaitya, votive stupa, monastery cells, and a seated Buddha sculpture.
Circus at Antinoopolis
Circus at Antinoopolis (Antinoöpolis, Egypt): Roman chariot-racing circus built in the 2nd century for the Megala Antinoeia games, later hosting the quadrennial Kapitolia; called by Humphrey the most impressive circus in Egypt outside Alexandria.
Circus at Lepcis Magna
Circus at Lepcis Magna, the Roman hippodrome at Leptis Magna, Libya; ca. 100 x 450 m with a 231 m spina, second half of 2nd century CE, enlarged under Septimius Severus, among the best-preserved Roman circuses.
Circus Circus Las Vegas
Circus Circus Las Vegas is a big-top-themed casino resort at 2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South, opened October 18, 1968 by Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin as the first family-oriented casino on the Strip, now owned by Phil Ruffin and home to the 5-acre Adventuredome.
Circus Flaminius
Circus Flaminius: open public space in Rome's southern Campus Martius, built by censor Gaius Flaminius Nepos in 221 BC; used for ludi plebeii, assemblies, markets, and triumphal staging, likely without permanent circus seating.
Circus Maximus
Circus Maximus (Circo Massimo), ancient Rome's largest chariot-racing stadium, about 600 by 140 m in the valley between the Palatine and Aventine, seating 150,000 to 200,000, rebuilt under Trajan, used into the sixth century.
Circus Maximus Mithraeum
Circus Maximus Mithraeum (Mitreo del Circo Massimo), also called Mithraeum of the Ara Massima di Ercole: a 3rd-century AD Roman Mithras sanctuary under the former Pantanella pasta factory, Rome, discovered 1931, abandoned after the Theodosian edict of 391.
Circus of Maxentius
Circus of Maxentius (Circo di Massenzio), best-preserved ancient Roman chariot-racing circus, built by emperor Maxentius 306-312 AD on the Via Appia, Rome; 513 by 91 m, 10,000 capacity, dedicated 311 to his son Romulus, obelisk now in Piazza Navona.
Circus of Nero
Circus of Nero (Circus Gai et Neronis, Circus Vaticanus): Roman chariot-racing circus on the Vatican begun by Caligula, completed by Nero, with the Heliopolitan obelisk now in St. Peter's Square; site of Peter's traditional martyrdom.
Circus Varianus
Circus Varianus (Circo Variano), a Severan chariot-racing circus in Rome's Horti Spei Veteris imperial villa, begun under Septimius Severus, reworked by Elagabalus, cut by the Aurelian Walls; not the Circus Maximus or Circus of Maxentius.
Circusland
Circusland: name shared by a circus museum in Besalú, Spain (opened 2020, 60,000+ objects), circus-themed family parks in Slagelse, Denmark, and Einbeck, Germany, a Vietnamese beachfront park, and a Las Vegas RV park.
Ciropolis
Ciropolis, usually written Cyropolis (Greek Kuroúpolis), was an ancient fortified town in Sogdia, Central Asia, probably founded by Cyrus the Great and known from Alexander the Great's 329 BCE campaign; its site, Ura-Tyube or Kurkath, remains unconfirmed.