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Visit Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea, Russia (UNESCO Site)
The site contains 4,500 petroglyphs carved in the rocks during the Neolithic period dated 6 to 7 thousand years ago and located in the Republic of Karelia in the Russian Federation. It is one of the largest such sites in Europe with petroglyphs that document Neolithic culture in Fennoscandia. The serial property encompasses 33 sites in two component parts 300km apart:... -
See Petroglyphs of Tamgaly, Kazakhstan (UNESCO site)
Tamgaly is a UNESCO petroglyph site in the Semirechye, Kazakhstan located 120 km to northwest of Almaty. The majority of the 5000 petroglyphs are in the lower part of the main canyon, but there are a number in the many side canyons. Most carvings depict deer and hunting scenes, but there is also a famous Buddha (or Shiva) drawing dated about 8th c. AD. The petro... -
Visit Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Germany (UNESCO site)
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen (German for 'Stilt house museum') is an archaeological open-air museum on Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Unteruhldingen, Germany, consisting of reconstructions of stilt houses or lake dwellings from the Neolithic Stone Age and Bronze Age. The museum consists of a number of exhibits displaying archeological finds from the area and period. Th... -
Visit Philae Temple, Egypt (UNESCO site)
Philae is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The complex was dismantled and relocated to a nearby island in connection to the UNESCO project started because of the construction of the High Dam, after being partly flooded by the first Aswan Dam for half a century. Philae was remarkable for the... -
Visit Phoenix Islands, Kiribati (UNESCO site)
The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial expansion of the British Empire (the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme). The is... -
Explore Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam (UNESCO site)
Phong Nha - Ke Bang is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quang Binh Province, in north-central Vietnam, about 500 km south of the nation's capital, Hanoi. The park borders the Hin Namno Nature Reserve in the province of Khammouan, Laos by the west, 42 km east of South China Sea from its borderline p... -
Visit Phu Phra Bat Historical Park, Thailand (UNESCO site)
Phu Phra Bat is a historical park in Ban Phue District, Udon Thani Province, Thailand. The park's distinguishing feature is its unusual rock formations around which religious shrines have been constructed. Some formations also feature prehistoric rock paintings. Phu Phra Bat is located in the western zone of the Phu Phan Mountains between Udon Thani and Nong Khai, at ... -
Visit Piazza del Duomo (Piazza dei Miracoli), Pisa (UNESCO site)
The Piazza dei Miracoli is a walled 8.87-hectare area located in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, recognized as an important center of European medieval art and one of the finest architectural complexes in the world. Considered sacred by the Catholic Church, its owner, the square is dominated by four great religious edifices: the Pisa Cathedral, the Pisa Baptistry, the Campanile... -
See Pico Island Vineyard Culture, Azores, Portugal (UNESCO site)
The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture is a Unesco World Heritage Site. The vineyard is divided into plots (currais) protected by walls (paredes, murinhos). The walls are build with basalt blocks that have been weathered and broken up and stacked without mortar. Viticulture dates back to the 15th century. -
Visit Pienza, Italy (UNESCO site)
Pienza, a town and comune in the province of Siena, in the Val d'Orcia in Tuscany (central Italy), between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, is the "touchstone of Renaissance urbanism." In 1996, UNESCO declared the town a World Heritage Site, and in 2004 the entire valley, the Val d'Orcia, was included on the list of UNESCO's World Cultural Landscapes. T... -
Visit Pier Head, Liverpool, England
The Pier Head is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It is part of the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004. The site encompasses a trio of landmarks, built on the site of the former George's Dock and referred to since at least 2000 as "The Three Graces": Royal Liver Building, built betwe... -
See Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk, Czech Republic (UNESCO site)
The Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora (Gruneberg) in Žďár nad Sázavou, near the border between Bohemia and Moravia, is the final masterpiece of Jan Santini Aichel, a maverick Bohemian architect who combined the Borrominiesque Baroque with references to Gothic elements in both construction and decoration. In 1719, when the... -
See Pilgrimage Church of Wies, Germany (UNESCO site)
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who for the last eleven years of his life lived nearby. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, in the municipality of Steingaden in the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany. In 1738, tears were seen on a dilapidated wooden figure of the Scourge... -
Visit Pingyao, China (UNESCO site)
Pingyao (Píngyáo) is a Chinese city and county in central Shanxi province, China. During the Qing Dynasty, Pingyao was a financial center of China. It is now renowned for its well-preserved ancient city wall, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pingyao still retains its city layout from the Ming and Qing dynasties, conforming to a typical bagua pattern.... -
Explore Pirin National Park, Bulgaria (UNESCO Site)
Pirin National Park is a World Heritage national park that encompasses the larger part of the Pirin Mountains in the southwest of Bulgaria. It has an area of about 400 km2 (150 sq mi) and lies at an altitude from 1,008–2,914 m (3,307–9,560 ft). Two nature reserves are located within the boundaries of the park, Bayuvi Dupki-Dzhindzhiritsa, one of the oldest...
