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Cîrşu
Cîrşu (also Carsisu, Cârciu) is an ancient Roman-period place at Bala commune, Mehedinți County, Romania, on the Râieni stream; Barrington Atlas 21 E5 records mineral exploitation, ancient ruins, and a Trajanic sestertius, though mining details remain uncertain.
Cissbury Ring
Cissbury Ring, near Worthing, West Sussex: a 24-hectare univallate Iron Age hillfort built c. 400 BC over one of Britain's earliest Neolithic flint mines, with Roman, beacon, Napoleonic, and WWII remains, now National Trust owned.
Citadel
Citadel: a fortress within or dominating a city, the strongest point of urban defenses. Covers Erbil Citadel (Iraq), Haiti's National History Park Citadel, Halifax, Québec, Plymouth, Dover, and The Citadel military college.
Citadel of Dura-Europos
Citadel of Dura-Europos: fortified hill on the eastern edge of Dura-Europos, Syria, above the Euphrates. Nucleus of the Seleucid settlement c. 300 BCE, held two probable palaces, later a Parthian iwan palace, then Roman military housing.
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
Citadel of the Ho Dynasty (Thành nhà Hồ, Tay Do Citadel): 1397 stone citadel in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam, built by Ho Quy Ly, capital of Dai Ngu 1398–1407, UNESCO World Heritage Site 2011, criteria ii and iv.
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent
Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003, criteria iii and iv) in Dagestan, Russia: Sasanian Naryn-Kala citadel, twin 3.6-km walls, and a 40-km mountain wall guarding the Caspian passage.
City Eleusinion at Athens
City Eleusinion (Ἐλευσίνιον ἐν ἄστει): sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter and Kore on Athens' Acropolis north slope near the Agora; urban terminus of the Eleusinian Mysteries, excavated 1936–1939 and 1959–1960, published by Margaret Miles (Agora XXXI, 1998).
City Gate
City Gate is the Cook Street Gate, Coventry: a Grade I listed, scheduled 14th-century sandstone gatehouse, one of two survivors of twelve on the medieval city wall, now a holiday apartment; also Valletta City Gate by Renzo Piano.
City Markets
City Markets (Kirkgate Market), Vicar Lane, Leeds: Grade I listed 1904 market hall by Leeming and Leeming with J Bagshaw and Sons engineers, eleven-bay Flemish-style stone frontage, cast-iron interior, replacing the 1875 hall where Marks and Spencer began.
City of David
City of David (Ir David; Silwan ridge), the archaeological site of ancient Jerusalem's settlement core south of the Old City, with Gihon Spring waterworks, Hezekiah's Tunnel, Shiloh's 1978–1985 excavation, bullae finds, and contested biblical-era chronology.
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg
City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg: UNESCO World Heritage site in Graz, Austria, inscribed 1999, extended 2010; criteria (ii) and (iv); baroque Eggenberg Palace built after 1625 for Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg.
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
UNESCO World Heritage site (1994, criterion iv) covering Luxembourg City's old quarters and fortress remains, the 'Gibraltar of the North', with 23 km of casemates, dismantled after the 1867 Treaty of London.
City of Quito
City of Quito (Historic Centre of Quito): UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 8 September 1978, among the first cities listed; Spanish-founded 1534 on Inca ruins at 2,850 m, home of the Baroque school of Quito.
City of Rocks State Park
City of Rocks State Park is a New Mexico state park in Faywood, established in 1952 around volcanic rock pinnacles rising as high as 40 feet.
City of the Dead (Cairo)
The City of the Dead (Qarafa, al-Qarafa) is Cairo's Islamic-era necropolis, about 5 square kilometers, in use since the 700s, containing Mamluk and Ottoman mausoleums, tens of thousands of living residents, and threatened since 2020 by highway demolition.
City of Verona
City of Verona (Città di Verona), the UNESCO World Heritage historic center of Verona, Italy, inscribed in 2000 (dossier 797rev, criteria ii and iv) over 444.4 ha; Roman, Scaliger, Venetian, and Austrian fortified town with a 2026-2031 management plan.
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (Città di Vicenza e le Ville del Palladio nel Veneto): UNESCO serial World Heritage site, inscribed 1994 and extended 1996, covering 23 Palladian buildings in Vicenza and 24 villas, criteria (i)(ii), 337.49 ha.
City Walls
City walls: defensive enclosures around cities, with gates, towers, and ditches. Examples include Roman London Wall (AD 200, 2.5 miles), Chichester, York, Chester, Canterbury, Dublin, Diyarbakir, and Jerusalem's Hasmonean walls.
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas is the main campus of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, built between 1940 and 1960 to the design of architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva.
Cius
Cius: a Greek city in Bithynia refounded as Prusias, and a Roman Danube limes fort at Gârliciu, Romania, rebuilt by Emperor Valens in 369 AD during his Gothic war against Athanaric.
Civil War Memorial (Savannah, Georgia)
Civil War Memorial in Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia, formerly the Confederate Soldiers Memorial: an 1875 Ladies' Memorial Association monument, altered in 1879 with a David Richards bronze soldier, restored in 2006.
Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission
The Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission is a National Register framework covering 62 Civil War monuments across Kentucky, only seven honoring Union soldiers.
Clanville
Clanville (Hampshire) is a Romano-British villa site near Andover, excavated in 1897 by G. H. Engleheart; its 96 by 52 ft aisled basilican house, with mosaics, hypocausts, and window glass, was the chief building of its villa group.
Clapies Gallo-Roman villa
Clapies Gallo-Roman villa (villa des Clapiès), a 1st-century Roman peristyle estate at Bezonnes, Rodelle, Aveyron, France, excavated in 1991 by Lucien Dausse; 12 rooms, mosaics, hypocausts, destroyed by fire late 3rd century; distinct from the Les Clapiès villa at Villeneuve-lès-Béziers.
Clarenna
Clarenna was a Roman military station on the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana and probably the fort at Römerstein-Donnstetten, whose civilian settlement lasted until about 260 CE.
Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Classical Gardens of Suzhou (苏州古典园林), nine UNESCO World Heritage private gardens in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, inscribed 1997 and extended 2000; masterpieces of miniature Chinese 'Mountain and Water' garden design dating from the 11th-19th centuries.
Classical Stadium at Olympia
Classical Stadium at Olympia, the ancient Olympic racecourse east of the Altis; 212.50 x 28.50 m, 192.28 m stadion track, about 45,000 standing spectators; excavated 1936-1942 by Kunze and Schleif.
Classical Weimar
Classical Weimar (Klassisches Weimar), UNESCO World Heritage Site 846 in Thuringia, Germany, inscribed 1998 under criteria (iii) and (vi): twelve buildings and parks of Weimar Classicism linked to Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and Wieland.
Clatchard Craig
Clatchard Craig, a destroyed multivallate hillfort above Newburgh, Fife, Scotland; a Pictish early medieval stronghold of the 7th century AD with seven ramparts, excavated 1953-60 before quarrying removed it.
Clausura Bir Oum Ali
Clausura Bir Oum Ali is a Roman frontier wall in southern Tunisia, built in the early second century to control movement through the Wadi Oum Ali pass.