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See Santa María la Mayor, Argentina (UNESCO site)
Reducción de Santa María la Mayor (Reduction of Holy Maria Major), located in the Santa María Department of the Misiones Province, Argentina, was one of the missions or reductions founded in the 17th century by the Jesuits in the Americas during the Spanish colonial period. The ruins of the reduction were declared World Heritage Site by UNESC... -
Explore Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica (UNESCO site)
Santa Rosa National Park, in Spanish the Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, is a national park, part of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste World Heritage site, in the northern western part of Costa Rica, originally created to protect the scene of the Battle of Santa Rosa, at its eastern edge lies the Interamerican Highway where it is adjacent to the Guanacaste Nation... -
Visit Santa Sofia, Benevento, Italy (UNESCO Site)
Santa Sofia is a church in Benevento, southern Italy, one of the main surviving examples of Lombard architecture. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.). The church is on a central plan, with a diameter of 23.5 m, inspired to that of Hagia Sofia. In the center the... -
Visit Santiago de Compostela, Spain (UNESCO site)
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James. In 1985 the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site The cathedral borders the main plaza of the old and w... -
Visit Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico (UNESCO site)
Santiago de Querétaro is the capital and largest city of the state of Querétaro, located in central Mexico. The founding date of the city is given as 25 July 1531, when during a battle between the Spanish and the natives of the area, an eclipse occurred during which Saint James on a white horse carrying a pink cross supposedly appeared, causing the nativ... -
Stroll Santiniketan, West Bengal (UNESCO Site)
Shantiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son, Rabindranath Tagore whose vision became what is now a university town with the creation of Visva-Bharati. It inscribed on the UNESC... -
See São Francisco Square, São Cristóvão, Brazil (UNESCO site)
São Francisco Square, in the town of São Cristovão, is a quadrilateral open space surrounded by substantial early buildings such as São Francisco Church and convent, the Church and Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the Provincial Palace and the associated houses of different historical periods surrounding the Square. This monumental e... -
Visit São Luís, Brazil (UNESCO site)
Historic Centre of São Luís is the capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The city is located on São Luís island in the Baía de São Marcos (St Marcus Bay), an extension of the Atlantic Ocean which forms the estuary of Pindaré, Mearim, Itapecuru and other rivers. São Luís is the only Brazil... -
Visit Sarazm, Tajikistan (UNESCO site)
Sarazm is an ancient town and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is located in Panjakent District in Sughd province. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Sarazm is located near Durman, a town situated in the Zarafshan Valley of north-west Tajikistan in the Sughd province near the border with Uzbekistan. The site indicates an early steppe presence in the ... -
Visit Sardis, Sart, Manisa Province, Turkey (UNESCO Site)
Sardis (/ˈsɑːrdɪs/ SAR-diss) or Sardes (/ˈsɑːrdiːs/ SAR-deess; Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣, romanized: Sfard; Ancient Greek: Σάρδεις, romanized: Sárdeis; Old Persian: Sparda) was an ancient city best known as the capital of the Lydian Empire. After the fall of the Lydian Empire, it became the capital of the Persian satrapy of Lydia and lat... -
Explore Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan (UNESCO site)
Saryarka — Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan is a part of the Kazakh Uplands (known in Kazakh as saryarka, or "yellow range") which has been designated a world heritage site by UNESCO. It was inscribed on July 7, 2008, and is the only natural world heritage site in Kazakhstan. The site comprises the Naurzum State Nature Reserve (located in Kostanay Pr... -
Visit Schokland, Netherlands (UNESCO site)
Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942. The remains are still visible as a slightly elevated part in the polder and by the still partly intact retaining wall of the waterfront of 'Middelbuurt'. As a result from the increasing sea-level Schokland transformed... -
Visit Schwerin Residence Ensemble, Schwerin, Germany (UNESCO site)
Established on the shores of Lake Schwerin in northeast Germany, the Schwerin Residence Ensemble is an architectural and landscape ensemble, which fits very precisely within the context of the emergence and development of the historicist style in Europe. Created for the most part in the 19th century in what was then the capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwer... -
Visit Scicli, Sicily, Italy (UNESCO site)
Scicli is a city in the Province of Ragusa in the south east of Sicily, southern Italy. It is 25 kilometres from Ragusa, and 308 kilometres from Palermo. Alongside seven other cities in the Val di Noto, it has been listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The city is also notable for its religious parades which includes "Presepe" (nativity scenes) enacted in th... -
Visit Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu, Romania
The Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu is an homage to the Romanian heroes of the First World War. The ensemble comprises three sculptures: The Table of Silence (Masa tăcerii), The Gate of the Kiss (Poarta sărutului), and the Infinity Column (Coloana Infinitului) on an axis 1.3 km (3⁄4 mile) long, oriented west to east. The ensem...
