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Explore Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil (UNESCO site)
Serra da Capivara National Park is a national park in the north east of Brazil. It has many prehistoric paintings. The park was created to protect the prehistoric artifacts and paintings found there. It became a World Heritage Site in 1991. Its head archaeologist is Niède Guidon. Its best known archaeological site is Pedra Furada. It is located in southeast sta... -
Explore Serra de Tramuntana, Mallorca (UNESCO site)
The Serra de Tramuntana is a mountain range running southwest-northeast which forms the northern backbone of the Spanish island of Majorca. It is also the name given to the comarca of the same area. On the 27th June 2011 The Tramuntana Range was awarded World Heritage Status by UNESCO as an area of great Physical and Cultural significance. Its highest peak is the Puig... -
Visit Seteais Palace, Sintra, Portugal (UNESCO site)
The Seteais Palace is a neoclassical palace located in Sintra, Portugal. It is now a luxury hotel, restaurant and a tourist attraction included in the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Seteais Palace was built between 1783 and 1787 for the Dutch consul Daniel Gildemeester, on lands granted by the Marquis of Pombal. The consul c... -
Visit Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region (UNESCO Site)
The property consists of three component parts: Faldeo Norte del Morro de Arica, Colón 10, both in the city of Arica, and Desembocadura de Camarones, in a rural environment some 100km further south. Together they bear testimony to a culture of marine hunter-gatherers who resided in the arid and hostile northern coast of the Atacama Desert in northernmost Chile ... -
Visit Sevilla (Seville), Spain (UNESCO sites)
Seville is the cultural and financial center of southern Spain as well as the capital of the Andalucía region. Andalucía has a rich Moorish heritage which is displayed in the architecture and customs of the region. The city of Seville straddles the banks of the Guadalquivir River, dividing the city into two parts. The river has had significant influence ... -
See Seville Cathedral, Spain (UNESCO site)
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville (Andalusia, Spain). It is the largest Gothiccathedral and the third-largest church in the world. After its completion in the early 16th century, Seville Cathedral supplanted Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedra... -
Visit Sewell, Chile (UNESCO site)
Sewell is an uninhabited Chilean mining town located in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, O'Higgins Region, on the slopes of the Andes, at an altitude between 2,000 and 2,250 metres. The town was founded in 1904 by the Braden Copper Co. to extract the copper in the El Teniente mine, and, in 1915, it was named after the company's first president, Mr.... -
Visit Shafiabad Caravanserai, Kerman, Iran
Shafiabad Caravanserai was along the Silk Road as a place where weary travelers took a break from selling their wares. This used to be one of the biggest caravanserais in the region. The architecture of the place is very typical of the region with mud bricks and four round towers. -
See Shah Abbasi Caravanserai (Farasfaj), Iran
The Shah Abbasi Caravansarai is a historical caravanserai related to the Safavid dynasty and is located in Farasfaj. -
See Shah Mosque (Masjed-e Shah), Isfahan, Iran (UNESCO site)
The Shah Mosque or Masjed-e Shah, recently known as Imam Mosque is a mosque in Isfahan, Iran standing in south side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid period, it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran, and regarded as one of the masterpieces of Persian Architecture. The Shah Mosque of Esfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces... -
Visit Shahr-e Sukhteh, Iran (UNESCO Site)
Shahr-e Sūkhté , [The] Burnt City", also spelled as Shahr-e Sukhteh and Shahr-i Shōkhta, is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture. It is located in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, the southeastern part of Iran, on the bank of the Helmand River, near the Zahedan-Zabol road. In June 2014, the Shahr-e ... -
Visit Shakhrisyabz, Uzbekistan (UNESCO site)
Shakhrisabz is a city in Uzbekistan located approximately 80 km south of Samarkand. Once a major city of Central Asia, it is primarily known today as the birthplace of 14th century Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur. Its name means "green city" in Persian. Several remaining impressive monuments from the Timurid Dynasty have enabled the old part of the city to be inscribed o... -
Visit Shaki (Sheki), Azerbaijan (UNESCO site)
Shaki is a city in northwestern Azerbaijan, in the rayon of the same name. Shaki is in northern Azerbaijan on the southern part of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, 325 km (202 mi) from Baku. The population is 63,000. According to the Azerbaijani historians, the name of the town goes back to the ethnonym of the Sakas, who reached the territory of modern-day Azerbai... -
See Shalamar (Shalimar) Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan (UNESCO site)
The Shalimar Gardens, sometimes written Shalamar Gardens, is a Persian garden and it was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in Lahore, modern day Pakistan. Construction began in 1641 CE (1051 AH) and was completed the following year. The project management was carried out under the superintendence of Khalilullah Khan, a noble of Shah Jahan's court, in cooperation ... -
Visit Shangdu (Xanadu), China (UNESCO site)
Xanadu or Shangdu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū, which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing. Xanadu was described by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of ...
