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Colonnes de Riez
Colonnes de Riez: four Roman granite columns with Corinthian marble capitals at Riez, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, the facade of a 1st-century tetrastyle temple on a podium, perhaps dedicated to Apollo; classified monument historique in 1840.
Colorado National Monument
Colorado National Monument is a 32-square-mile NPS unit near Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado, proclaimed by Taft on May 24, 1911 after John Otto's campaign, preserving red rock canyons, monoliths, and the 23-mile Rim Rock Drive.
Colorado State Parks
Colorado State Parks is a system of 43 parks covering over 230,000 acres, managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and drawing more than 16 million visitors a year.
Colorful Youth Theme Park
Colorful Youth Theme Park (泰山花样年华景区) is a national AAAA theme park in Tai'an, Shandong, China, at the foot of Mount Tai, covering 1200 mu with flower halls, a water park, and film-shooting facilities.
Colosseum
The Colosseum, or Flavian Amphitheatre (Amphitheatrum Flavium), is Rome's largest ancient amphitheatre, begun by Vespasian in 71–72 CE and inaugurated by Titus in 80 CE; oval 187.75 × 155.60 m, over 50,000 spectators, named after the Colossus of Nero.
Colossus of Nero
Colossus of Nero (Colossus Neronis): colossal ~120-foot bronze statue of Nero by Zenodorus in the Domus Aurea vestibule, rededicated as Sol by Vespasian, moved by Hadrian near the Colosseum, source of the name Colosseum.
Columbarium
Columbarium (plural columbaria), from Latin columba (dove): a structure of small niches holding cinerary urns. Originated in Roman tombs of the mid-1st century BC for slaves and freedmen; now a modern cemetery niche wall for cremated remains.
Columbarium of Caius Scribonius Menophilus
Columbarium of Caius Scribonius Menophilus, early Augustan (c. 30 BC) underground collective tomb on the Via Aurelia Antica at Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome; about 500 urn niches, discovered 1984, named for a freedman's mosaic inscription.
Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas
Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas (Colombario di Pomponio Hylas), a small first-century AD underground Roman columbarium near the Porta Latina, Rome, found intact in 1831, decorated with frescoes, stucco, and a rare shell-framed glass mosaic naming the freedman Pomponius Hylas.
Columbus Monument, Barcelona
Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom, Mirador de Colom), Barcelona's 1888 Universal Exposition memorial column at Plaça del Portal de la Pau: 51 m iron column by Gaietà Buïgas, 7 m Rafael Atché statue, Barcelona's first lift, and ongoing colonial-legacy controversy.
Column of Marcus Aurelius
Column of Marcus Aurelius, also called the Antonine Column, a 47-meter Luna marble victory column in Rome's Piazza Colonna, built 180-193 AD, with a 21-turn spiral frieze of the Marcomannic Wars, modeled on Trajan's Column and crowned since 1589 by a bronze Saint Paul.
Comagena
Comagena, also recorded as Comagenis, was a Roman auxiliary cavalry fort on the Danube at present-day Tulln, Austria, occupied from the 1st to the 5th century.
Comarca Minera UNESCO Global Geopark
Comarca Minera UNESCO Global Geopark, in Hidalgo state, Mexico, designated May 2017; a 184,800-hectare former silver-mining territory with 31 geosites, columnar basalts, Cornish heritage, and UNAM scientific backing.
Comărnicel
Comărnicel: hill (1,893 m) in Romania's Șureanu Mountains with three Roman marching camps (I, II, III) built during Trajan's Dacian Wars on the eastern invasion route to Sarmizegetusa Regia; UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia components.
Combe St. Nicholas
Combe St. Nicholas, a village and civil parish in Somerset near Chard, formerly Combe Episcopi, renamed in 1239 when its church was dedicated to St Nicholas; Domesday manor of Wells Cathedral with a lantern-lit Combe Fair.
Combeplaine
Combeplaine: hamlet in Saint-Joseph, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, near Rive-de-Gier; site of a Gallo-Roman settlement known since the 18th century, with villa or vicus remains, mosaics, baths, and the Gier aqueduct nearby.
Combley Roman villa
Combley Roman Villa, Isle of Wight: a Scheduled Monument Roman villa at Robin Hill near Arreton, with aisled building, bath house, hypocaust, and Dolphin Mosaic, excavated 1910 and 1968-1979.
Combustica
Combustica (Conbustica) was a Roman road station on the Ratiaria–Naissus road in Moesia superior, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana and identified with the excavated military site near Kladorub, Bulgaria.
Comidava
Comidava, also Cumidava, was a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Râșnov, Brașov County, Transylvania, garrisoned by Cohors VI nova Cumidavensium from the Trajanic Dacian Wars until the Aurelian retreat of 271 AD, defending the Bran Pass.
Comitium of Pompeii
Comitium of Pompeii (VIII.3.1): building at the southeast corner of Pompeii's Forum near Via dell'Abbondanza, traditionally the election hall; 2017–2019 excavations date it to the Augustan period over razed tabernae and a domus.
Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum
Comitium of Poseidonia/Paestum: circular Roman assembly building on the north side of Paestum's forum, built after the 273 BC Latin colony, used for assemblies and magistrate elections, now under Bochum excavation.
Commemorative Plant Garden
Commemorative Plant Garden (名人名树园), a 3.8-hectare garden established 1999 in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, holding memorial trees planted by Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Wen Jiabao, Prince Philip, and founder Cai Xitao, plus rare tropical plants.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), formerly Imperial War Graves Commission, intergovernmental body founded 1917 that commemorates 1.7 million Commonwealth war dead at over 23,000 cemeteries and memorials worldwide, funded by six member governments.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Asia, Africa and Oceania
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in Asia, Africa and Oceania are war cemeteries and memorials at sites like Basra, Kranji, El Alamein, Delhi, and Ambon, adapted to local climate and religious practice.
Comodoliacus
Comodoliacus: ancient place cited in the Barrington Atlas (sheet 14, G3) and catalogued in the Pleiades gazetteer (place 138302) by H.S. Sivan; classified as Late Antique, AD 300–640.
Company's Garden
Company's Garden, Cape Town public park and heritage garden, remaining part of the 1652 VOC vegetable garden under Jan van Riebeeck; oldest garden in South Africa, 3.2 ha, National Monument 1962.
Compasi
Compasi (Greek Κομπασι, modern Daghbag/Bir Daghbag, Egypt) was a Roman hydreuma and praesidium on the Koptos–Berenike desert road, founded by the late AD 10s, with cisterns recorded in ILS 2483.
Compitum
Compitum (plural compita): Latin for a crossroads and the shrine of the Lares Compitales standing there, center of the Compitalia festival; examples include the Compitum Acili in Rome (5 BC) and the Compitum Anagninum on the Via Latina.
Compitum ad Confluentes
Compitum ad Confluentes, a Roman road station at San Giovanni in Compito near Savignano sul Rubicone (Barrington Atlas 40 C4), at the via Emilia and Sarsina-Ravenna road crossing, with finds from the Copper Age to the Middle Ages.
Complejo Bahía de Jiquilisco
Complejo Bahía de Jiquilisco (Jiquilisco Bay Complex), El Salvador's largest brackish-water and mangrove wetland, 63,500 ha; Ramsar site no. 1586 (2005), UNESCO Xiriualtique–Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve (2007), and first Salvadoran shorebird reserve network site.