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Explore Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal (UNESCO site)
Sagarmāthā National Park is a protected area in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal containing the southern half of Mount Everest. The park was created on July 19, 1976 and was inscribed as a Natural World Heritage Site in 1979. Sagarmāthā is a Sanskrit word, from sagar = "sky" (not to be confused with "sea/ocean") and māthā = "forehead" or "head", and is the modern Nepali... -
See Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain (UNESCO site)
The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família,[a] otherwise known as Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), in 2005 his work on Sagrada Fam&iac... -
Visit Saihō-ji, Kyoto, Japan (UNESCO Site)
Saihō-ji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Matsuo, Nishikyō Ward, Kyoto, Japan. The temple, which is famed for its moss garden, is commonly referred to as "Koke-dera", meaning "moss temple", while the formal name is "Kōinzan Saihō-ji". The temple, primarily constructed to honor Amitabha, was first founded by Gyōki and was later restored by Musō Soseki. In 199... -
Visit Saint-Avit-Sénieur Church, France (UNESCO site)
Saint-Avit-Sénieur is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France. The most notable feature of the village is a massive church from the end of the 11th and 12th century. Next to the church, an abbey has been erected to honour the ermit Avitus, who died in 570. Avitus gave his name to the abbey and the village. The abbey used to hous... -
See Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia (UNESCO site)
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat or Pokrovsky Cathedral - both are official names used by the Russian Orthodox Church - also known as the Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed but popularly as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox church erected on Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible. It comme... -
See Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt (UNESCO site)
Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report, this monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of Saint Anthony, ... -
Visit Saint-Émilion, France (UNESCO site)
Saint-Émilion Gascon Sent Milion is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France. Saint-Émilion's history goes back to prehistoric times and is a World Heritage site, with fascinating Romanesque churches and ruins stretching all along steep and narrow streets. The Romans planted vineyards in what was to become Saint-Émi... -
Visit Saint Jacques Gate in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France (UNESCO site)
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (literally "Saint John [at the] Foot of [the] Pass") is a town in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France close to Ostabat in the Pyrenean foothills. The town is also the old capital of the traditional Basque province of Lower Navarre. This is also a starting point for the Camino Francés, the most popula... -
Visit Saint-Jacques Tower, Paris, France (UNESCO site)
Saint-Jacques Tower (Tour Saint-Jacques) is a monument located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, on Rue de Rivoli at Rue Nicolas Flamel. This 52-metre (171 ft) Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th-century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie ("Saint James of the butchery"), which was demolished in 1797, during the French Revoluti... -
Visit Saint-Louis, Senegal (UNESCO site)
Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof, is located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until independence in 1960. From 1920 to 1957 it also served as the capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania. The heart of the old colonial city is located on a narrow i... -
Wine Tasting in Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims, France (UNESCO Site)
Saint-Nicaise Hill in Reims, France was inscribed to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites on July 4, 2015 under the Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars. -
See Saint Sophia Cathedral (Kiev), Ukraine (UNESCO site)
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. Today, it is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first Ukrainian patrimony to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex. Aside from its main building, the cathedral includes an ensemble of supporting structures such as a bell towe... -
Visit Salamanca, Spain (UNESCO site)
Salamanca is a town in western central Spain. The city lies by the Tormes river on a plateau and is considered to be one of the most spectacular Renaissance cities in Europe. The buildings are constructed of sandstone mined from the nearby Villamayor quarry, and, as the sun begins to set, they glow gold, orange and pink. It is this radiant quality of the stones that h... -
Explore Salina Island, Italy (UNESCO site)
Salina is the second largest island in the archipelago. Salina is divided between three comuni: Santa Marina on the eastern coast, Malfa to the north, and Leni to the south-west. From Leni down towards the sea are the villages of Valdichiesa and Rinella. The other smaller villages are Capo Faro, Pollara and Lingua. The following sites are on the idland: The salt lake... -
Explore Salonga National Park, DRC (UNESCO site)
Salonga National Park is a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in the Congo River basin. It is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve covering about 36,000 km². Animals in the park include bonobos, Salonga monkeys, Tshuapa red colobus, Zaire peacocks, forest elephants, and African slender-snouted crocodiles. It was inscribed as a U...
