Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Contrada Diana

Contrada Diana is the archaeological area of Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Italy: namesake of the Neolithic Diana culture, site of Greek city walls, a nearly 3,000-tomb Greco-Roman necropolis, Roman baths, and 2023 ancient DNA evidence of African links.

Convent of Christ in Tomar

Convent of Christ in Tomar (Convento de Cristo), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983: Templar castle founded 1160 by Gualdim Pais, later seat of the Order of Christ, with the Charola rotunda and Manueline Chapter Window.

Coombe Abbey

Coombe Abbey (Combe Abbey), a Cistercian monastery founded in 1150 near Coventry, dissolved 1539, later the Craven family seat with Capability Brown parkland; now a Grade I listed hotel in a Grade II registered country park.

Coombe Crag Roman Quarry

Coombe Crag Roman Quarry (Combcrag Wood, near Birdoswald, Hadrian's Wall, Cumbria): a scheduled Roman sandstone quarry with seven Roman quarry-face inscriptions (RIB 1946–1952) plus one forgery, used AD 122–138 and later for Wall building and repairs.

Coombe Hill

Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire: the highest point in the Chiltern Hills at 260 m (852 ft), a National Trust SSSI with chalk grassland, a 1904 Boer War memorial, a prehistoric cross-dyke, and Low Scrubs coppiced beech woodland.

Coongie Lakes National Park

Malkumba-Coongie Lakes National Park, proclaimed 2005 in far northeast South Australia, protects the Ramsar-listed Coongie Lakes wetlands of Cooper Creek, 100 km northwest of Innamincka, with 205 bird species, boom-and-bust flooding ecology, and Yandruwandha and Yawarrawarrka co-management.

Copăceni

Copăceni (Praetorium I) is a Roman auxiliary fort on the Olt river, Vâlcea County, Romania, part of the limes Alutanus; built in 138, enlarged 140, now a UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia component, distinct from the Cluj village of the same name.

Copán

Copán, a major Classic Maya archaeological site in western Honduras, capital of a 16-ruler dynasty founded by K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' in A.D. 427, home of the longest known Maya inscription, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980.

Cordillera Volcánica Central Biosphere Reserve

Cordillera Volcánica Central Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Cordillera Volcánica Central), a UNESCO MAB reserve in central Costa Rica designated 27 January 1988, covering 650,918 ha with Poás and Irazú volcanoes, 80.7% of the country's endemic species, and watersheds supplying 53% of its population.

Corfu Aquarium

Corfu Aquarium in Paleokastritsa, Corfu, Greece, is a small aquarium of Mediterranean marine life plus a reptile house with about 30 species including a crocodile; a 45-minute guided tour is included in admission.

Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs and Cays

Coringa-Herald and Lihou Reefs and Cays (Coral Sea Reserves, Ramsar site 1222) is a 1,728,920-hectare Australian Coral Sea Ramsar wetland, listed 2002, protecting near-pristine reefs, 20,000+ seabirds, and green turtle nesting.

Corinth Theater

Corinth Theater: ancient Greek and Roman theater at Corinth (Kórinthos), Greece, west of the Temple of Apollo. Eight phases from the late 5th century BC; 120 m cavea, 14,000-18,000 seats; Roman arena and aquatic-show conversions; abandoned after 396 CE.

Corner Tower

Corner Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne: medieval Grade I listed town-wall turret off City Road, built 1299-1307 with two right-angled turrets when the wall turned to include Pandon; also the general architectural term for towers at wall corners.

Corniculani

Corniculani is a Roman road station named on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Neronia and Hadriani on the Altinum-Ravenna route, possibly read Cornicula iii; a milestone from modern Codigoro attests T. Annius and 250 Roman miles.

Cornillé, Cm. Chambourg-sur-Indre

Cornillé, Cm. Chambourg-sur-Indre: a lieu-dit in Indre-et-Loire, France, site of a Gallo-Roman villa (Corneliacus) with hypocaust, aqueduct, and 2nd-3rd century coin finds; attested as Cornilleum in 1213.

Cornucio

Cornucio is an ancient Roman villa in Gaul, attested AD 300–640 in the Vita Sancti Desiderii of Cahors, recorded as Pleiades place 138311 and tentatively identified with Cornus, Cenevières (Lot), France.

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (Cornish Mining), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2006: ten areas, 19,709 ha, copper and tin mining 1700-1914, beam-engine technology exported worldwide.

Coro and its Port

Coro and its Port (Coro y su puerto) is a Venezuelan UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed 1993, covering colonial Santa Ana de Coro (founded 1527) and La Vela de Coro, noted for Caribbean-unique earthen architecture and on the Danger List since 2005.

Corredor Biológico Nevados de Chillán-Laguna del Laja Biosphere Reserve

Corredor Biológico Nevados de Chillán-Laguna del Laja Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in Chile's Ñuble and Biobío Andes, designated 29 June 2011; 565,807 ha protecting the northernmost, isolated huemul population.

Corridor forestier de la Boucle du Mouhoun

Corridor forestier de la Boucle du Mouhoun, Ramsar Site no. 2314, is a 134,553-ha chain of classified forests along the Mouhoun River in Burkina Faso, designated 27 October 2017 as the country's 20th Ramsar site, sheltering elephants, hippos, and vulnerable trees like Vitellaria paradoxa.

Corterate

Corterate (Corteratis), ancient road station in Gaul on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Burdigala and Vesunna, identified with Coutras, Gironde, France; Barrington Atlas 14 E3, Roman/Late Antique vicus.

Corvey

Corvey (Nova Corbeia): Benedictine imperial abbey founded 822 on the Weser near Höxter, Germany. Its Carolingian westwork (873–885) is the only one still standing; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014.

Corzano

Corzano: an Italian toponym of Roman praedial origin, from fundus curtianus (land of Curtius). Names a comune in Brescia province, Lombardy, and the medieval castrum corzani (1199) near Bagno di Romagna.

Cosa

Cosa, Latin colony founded 273 BC at Ansedonia, Tuscany, 139 km from Rome on former Vulcian land; type-site Roman colony with Republican forum, capitolium, earliest known Roman port, and pozzolana concrete.

Cosgrove

Cosgrove: Roman villa and temple site at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire (Scheduled Monument 1003874), found in 1957 and excavated 1958-59 and 1969; mid-2nd-century bath-suite villa, later Romano-Celtic temple, published by Henrietta Quinnell in 1991.

Cosmeston Lakes Country Park

Cosmeston Lakes Country Park: country park and Local Nature Reserve near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, on former limestone quarries; SSSI lakes with rare starry stonewort, Medieval Village, and the 2025 Aqua Park pilot paused for 2026.