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The Castro Theatre is a popular San Francisco movie palace which became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976. Located at 429 Castro Street, in the Castro district, it was built in 1922 with a Spanish Colonial Baroque façade that pays homage—in its great arched central window surmounted by a scrolling pediment framing a niche—to the...
The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.
Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts...
The Catacomb(s) of Callixtus (also known as the Cemetery of Callixtus) is one of the Catacombs of Rome on the Appian Way, most notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes (Italian:Cappella dei Papi), which once contained the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th centuries.
The Catacomb is believed to have been created by future Pope Callixtus I, then a deacon o...
The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa (Arabic: مقابر كوم الشقافة; meaning "Mound of Shards") is a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, Egypt, and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.
The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funerary cult with Hellenistic and early Imp...
The Catacombs of Milos are a historical site located on Milos island, in Cyclades, Greece. They are found near the modern settlement of Trypiti, next to the site of the agora of the ancient city of Melos and 200 m to the east of the ancient theatre. The name Trypiti (Τρυπητή, "made withholes[τρύπες]") derives from t...
NOTE: The catacombs are under repair and due to open sometime in 2026.
The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are an underground ossuary in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate (the "Barrière d'Enfer" at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau), the ossuary holds the remains of about six million people and fills a renovated section of cavern...
The Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome, Italy, rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter. It is one of the very few Christian burial places that has always been accessible. The first of the former four floors is now almost completely destroyed.
In ancient times the catacombs were simply known with the namein catacumbas, a Greek t...
Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya Pl...
The Catalina Casino is located in Avalon on Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. It is the most recognisable landmark in the City of Avalon. It contains a theatre, a ballroom and a museum. The Catalina Casino gets its name from the Italian language, where “casino” means a gathering place. There is no gambling at this facility.
The movie theatre is...
The upper-level houses the 20,000-square-foot Catalina Casino Ballroom. It is the world's largest circular ballroom, with a 180-foot (55 m) diameter dance floor that can accommodate 3,000 dancers. French doors encircle the room connecting the dance floor with the Romance Promenade, an open balcony that runs around the building.
To reach the ballroom on the top level, ...
The remains of a Catalina flying boat that crashed on the slopes of Heiseabhal Beag in 1944 lie in a stream bed near the shore on Isle of Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Fly, land and explore Catalina Island. Situated at 1,600 feet elevation, Santa Catalina Island ’s only runway is truly an Airport in the Sky. Completed in 1946, the Airport in the Sky has a 3,250-foot runway that can accommodate most small planes.
Landing hours at the airport are 8:00 AM-7:00 PM from April 15 through October 15, and 8:00 AM-5:00 PM the rest of ...
This 1930’s World War II PBY Catalina Seaplane wreck is near the beautiful sandy cape of Ras Al-Sheikh Hameed in the north-west province of Tabuk.
Los Angeles industrialist Thomas W. Kendall bought three surpluse Catakina's in the 1950's. He converted the amphibious planes into luxurious floating suites.
In 1959, the Kendalls embarked on their around-the-world...
Once produced in a factory on the island, Catalina tile adorns the serpentine wall that snakes along Crescent Avenue, Foundtain on the walkway, the Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens, the old Bird Park aviary, benches, storefronts, fountains and numerous homes and buildings around the town.
For only a decade, from 1927 to 1937, functional tile and decorative pott...
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