Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Ad Teglanum

Ad Teglanum (Adteglanum), a road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Nola and Nuceria in Campania, near Palma Campania; emended to Ad Teglarium, 'at the tile works.'

Ad Turrem: Roman road station on the Via Aurelia (Iulia Augusta) in Gallia Narbonensis, identified with Tourves, Var, France; recorded in the Antonine Itinerary (298,3) and Tabula Peutingeriana between Tegulata and Matauone (Cabasse), with Nero milestones nearby.

Ad Turres (Italy)

Ad Turres, Latin "at the towers": Roman road stations in Italy, chiefly a Via Aurelia mansio near Palidoro/Statua (4 miles from Alsium, 10 from Lorium, 12 from Pyrgi), plus Via Severiana and Bruttian namesakes.

Ad Turres Albas

Ad Turres Albas, a Roman road station (statio) on the Via Severiana in Latium, listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Clostris and Circeios; also Turris albas in the Ravenna Cosmography; location debated (Lago di Caprolace, Torre di Fogliano, Rio Martino).

Ad Vicesimum (Italy)

Ad Vicesimum, a Roman road station (mutatio) at the twentieth mile of the Via Flaminia near Morlupo, Lazio, Italy; named in the Jerusalem Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana; distinct from same-named stations at Veržej and Amendolara.

Ad VII

Ad VII is a Roman road station of the early Empire (30 BC–AD 300), recorded in the Barrington Atlas (sheet 17, E2) and Pleiades; the form Ad VII Aras appears in the Antonine Itinerary on the Emerita–Olisipo road in Lusitania.

Ad Villam Serviliana

Ad Villam Serviliana (Ad Villam Servilianam), a Roman villa and road station in Numidia about 25-30 miles south of Hippo Regius, on the Tabula Peutingeriana, absent from the Antonine Itinerary, proposed at Galaât Bou Sbaâ.

Ad XII/Meduacus Maior

Ad XII/Meduacus Maior (Maio Meduaco) is a Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana at Sambruson near Dolo, on the Meduacus Maior (ancient Brenta), where the via Annia met the via Popilia, twelve miles from Padua.

Adad temple (Khorsabad)

Adad temple (Khorsabad): one of six sanctuaries on the palace terrace of Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's capital, dedicated to the storm god Adad and known for an 8-line inscribed prayer threshold.

Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków

Bronze statue of poet Adam Mickiewicz (Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza) on Kraków's Main Market Square, designed by Teodor Rygier, unveiled 16 June 1898, destroyed by Germans 17 August 1940, and re-erected 26 November 1955 from Hamburg-recovered elements.

Adamello-Brenta UNESCO Global Geopark

Adamello-Brenta UNESCO Global Geopark, in western Trentino, Italy: nature park since 1967, geopark since 2008, IGGP 2015; 620.51 km² park, 38 municipalities, Brenta Dolomites World Heritage 2009.

Adelaide Botanic Garden

The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51-hectare public botanic garden in Adelaide, South Australia, opened in 1857 and known for its 1877 Palm House and the State Herbarium.

Adhari Park

Adhari Park (عين عذاري) is an amusement park in Bahrain near Manama, opened April 2008 on 165,000 sq m beside the historic Ain Adhari freshwater spring, with indoor and outdoor rides, karting, and bowling, operated by Adhari Park Development Company.

Adirondack Park

Adirondack Park: New York protected area created 1892, about 6 million acres, largest in contiguous US, mixing constitutionally protected Forest Preserve with private land under APA and DEC management.

Adjara (site)

Adjara (site) is casinoadjara.com, the website of Casino Adjara, a Tbilisi, Georgia casino opened in 1998, the country's oldest, run by Sunshine LLC with offshore owners and adjoined to the Holiday Inn Tbilisi.

Adrenalin Park (Egypt)

Adrenalin Park (حديقة الأدرينالين) is a paintball and adventure venue in Sheikh Zayed, 6th of October, Egypt, founded 2010, with three fields (Armageddon, Castle, Village), laser tag at Dandy Mall, and corporate team building via Adrenalin Experience.

Adro Vello

Adro Vello (O Grove, Galicia) is a fenced archaeological zone by O Carreiro beach: Roman fish-salting factory, medieval necropolis with 200+ tombs, early church; declared bien de interés cultural in 2022.

Adrou/Augustopolis

Adrou/Augustopolis (Udhruh, Jordan): Late Roman legionary fortress and Byzantine town east of Petra, rebuilt by Legio VI Ferrata in 303/304, an episcopal see and the highest-taxed town of Palaestina Tertia.

Adurru Mound

Adurru Mound (Dubaraju Dibba), a 2,400-year-old Buddhist stupa and monastery site in East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, on the Vainetaya river; ASI-protected, excavated 1923 and 1953, with a 17-foot wheel-plan Mahastupa.

Adventure park Skypark

Adventure park Skypark (Мотузковий парк Skypark) is a rope adventure park at VDNH in Kyiv, Ukraine, run by the SkyPark network of five rope parks, ziplines, and kayak rentals operating since 2008.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent US federal agency created by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. It administers Section 106 review, issues 36 CFR part 800, and in 2026 proposed major revisions to those regulations.

Aedes Apollinis Palatini

Aedes Apollinis Palatini, the Temple of Apollo Palatinus, Augustus' marble temple on the southwest Palatine in Rome, vowed 36 BC, dedicated 9 October 28 BC, with Greek and Latin libraries and the Sibylline books.

Aedes Ceres Liber Liberaque

Aedes Ceres Liber Liberaque (aedes Cereris), a Roman temple on the Aventine near the Circus Maximus dedicated in 493 BCE to Ceres, Liber, and Libera; headquarters of the plebeian aediles, destroyed by fire in 31 BCE and rededicated by Tiberius after A.D. 17.

Aedes Fauni

Aedes Fauni, the Temple of Faunus (aedes Fauni), was Rome's only known temple of Faunus, on the Tiber Island; vowed 196 BC by Domitius Ahenobarbus and Scribonius Curio, dedicated on the Ides of February, cited by Vitruvius as prostyle.

Aedes Hercules Musarum

Aedes Hercules Musarum (aedes Herculis Musarum), Temple of Hercules of the Muses in Rome's Circus Flaminius, built by M. Fulvius Nobilior after Ambracia (189 BC); housed looted Muses, his Fasti, restored by Philippus in 29 BC.

Aedes Herculis Pompeiani

Aedes Herculis Pompeiani: a temple of Hercules near the Circus Maximus in Rome, built or restored by Pompey the Great, Tuscan in style, housing a bronze Hercules by Myron, dedicated 12 August.

Aedes Salus

Aedes Salus, the Temple of Salus on Rome's Quirinal Hill (collis Salutaris), vowed by C. Iunius Bubulcus Brutus and dedicated 302 BC; famous for Fabius Pictor's frescoes, destroyed under Claudius.

Aedes Serapis

Aedes Serapis: the colossal temple of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis on Rome's Quirinal Hill, catalogued as templum Salutis et Serapis; traditionally attributed to Caracalla, reassigned by Taylor (2004) to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.

Aedes Tensarum

Aedes Tensarum (Tensarium Vetus), a small Roman temple on the Capitoline Hill storing the tensae, sacred chariots carrying the gods' exuviae in processions; attested by military diplomas of 60 and 84 AD.