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Explore Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka (UNESCO site)
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a national park and a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka. It is of international significance and has been designated a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The hilly virgin rainforest, part of the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests ecoregion, was saved from the worst of commercial logging by its inaccessibility, and was designat... -
Visit Sintra, Portugal (UNESCO sites)
Sintra is a town in Sintra Municipality in Portugal, located in the Grande Lisboa subregion and the Lisbon Region. The town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture. It has a population of c. 33,000 inhabitants. Sintra has become a major tourist attraction, with many day-trippers visiting from nearby Lisbon. Attractions... -
Visit Sintra National Palace, Sintra, Portugal (UNESCO site)
The Sintra National Palace, also called Town Palace is located in the town of Sintra, in Portugal near Lisbon. It is the best preserved medieval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to the late 19th century. It is an important tourist attraction and is part of the Cultural landscape of Sintra, design... -
Visit Sirmione & Lugana Vecchia, Italy (UNESCO site)
Sirmione is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy). It is bounded by the comunes of Desenzano del Garda (Lombardy) and Peschiera del Garda in the province of Verona and the region of Veneto. It has a historical centre which is located on the Sirmio peninsula that divides the lower part of Lake Garda. The prehistoric settlement at Lugana Vecc... -
Visit Sir Robert Ho Tung Library, Macau (UNESCO site)
Sir Robert Ho Tung Library is a public library in Macau, China. It is located in St. Augustine’s Square in the Historic Centre of Macau, a UNESCO world heritage site. The library is housed in a mansion that has good historical, cultural and architectural value. The building was constructed before 1894 and was owned by Dona Carolina Cunha. Later the mansion was p... -
See Skara Brae, Scotland (UNESCO site)
Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BC–2500 BC. Europe's most complete Neolithic village, Skara Brae gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status as one of four sites comprising "The Heart of Neolit... -
Visit Skellig Michael, Ireland (UNESCO site)
Skellig Michael (from Sceilig Mhichíl in the Irish language, meaning Michael's rock), also known as Great Skellig, is a steep rocky island in the Atlantic Ocean about 9 miles (14.5 kilometres) from the coast of County Kerry, Ireland. It is the larger of the two Skellig Islands. After probably being founded in the 7th century, for 600 years the island was a cent... -
Explore Škocjan Caves, Slovenia (UNESCO site)
Skocjan Caves is a cave system in Slovenia. Due to its exceptional significance, Škocjan Caves was entered on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural world heritage sites in 1986. International scientific circles have thus acknowledged the importance of the caves as one of the natural treasures of planet Earth. Ranking among the most important caves in the ... -
See Skogskyrkogården Cemetery, Sweden (UNESCO site)
Skogskyrkogården (translated as The Woodland Cemetery) is a cemetery located in the Enskededalen district south of central Stockholm, Sweden. Its design reflects the development of architecture from national romantic style to mature functionalism. Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemete... -
Visit Skorba Temples, Malta (UNESCO site)
The Skorba temples are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Żebbiegħ, in Malta, which have provided detailed and informative insight into the earliest periods of Malta's neolithic culture. The site was only excavated in the early 1960s, rather late in comparison to other megalithic sites, some of which had been studied since the early 19th century. The site's im... -
See Snares Islands (Tini Heke), New Zealand (UNESCO site)
Snares Islands/Tini Heke (also known as The Snares) is a small island group situated approximately 200 kilometres south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-south-west of Stewart Island/Rakiura. The Snares consist of the main island North East Island and the smaller Broughton Island as well as the somewhat isolated Western Chain Islands approx 5 km (3.1 mi) ... -
Visit Sobrado Abbey (Monaster de Sobrado Dos Monxes), Spain (UNESCO site)
Sobrado Abbey (Mosteiro de Santa María de Sobrado dos Monxesor or Monasterio de Santa María de Sobrado dos Monxes) is a Cistercian monastery in the province of A Coruña in Galicia in Spain. It is situated in the municipality of Sobrado, about 9 km east of Corredoiras and about 46 km southeast of Betanzos, at an altitude of 540 m above sea level. I... -
Explore Socotra Archipelago, Yemen (UNESCO site)
Socotra, also spelt Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. Socotra is considered the jewel of biodiversity in the Arabian Sea. In the 1990s, a team of United Nations biologists conducted a survey of the archipelago’s flora and fauna. They counted nearly 700 endemic species, found nowhere else on earth; only Hawaii and the Galapagos ... -
Dive Sodwana Bay National Park, South Africa (UNESCO site)
Sodwana Bay National Park, is situated on the coast within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in South Africa. The bay is known for its sport fishing, scuba diving and snorkelling. This nature reserve reserve lies adjacent to Africa’s southern-most coral reefs. In summer, loggerhead and leatherback turtles come out of the sea to nest on the beaches. The park is ... -
Visit Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (UNESCO Site)
The Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque (Sokollu Mehmet Paşa Camii) is an Ottoman mosque located in the Kadirga neighborhood of the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque is noted for its architecturally challenging location on a steep slope. Sinan resolved this issue by fronting the mosque with a two-story courtyard. The bottom story (now in ruins) was divided into s...
