The Summer Palace, also known as Yihe Garden (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhéyuán), was built by Chinese Empress Cixi as a place for rest and quiet reflection. It is a large area in Beijing that includes lakes, gardens, and palaces. During the Qing dynasty, it was an imperial garden and features Longevity Hill (万寿山; 萬壽山; Wànshòu Shān), Kunming Lake, and the Seventeen Hole Bridge.
The Sulayman Mountain, also known as Sulaiman-Too in Kyrgyz (written in the Roman alphabet as “Sulaiman-Too,” meaning “Sulayman Rock”), is the sole World Heritage Site entirely within Kyrgyzstan. It is located in the city of Osh and was once an important place for people to visit before the time of Islam.
Su Nuraxi is an archaeological site located in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. The name “Su Nuraxi” means “The Nuraghe” in Campidanese, which is a southern dialect of the Sardinian language. Su Nuraxi is a settlement that includes a nuraghe, a type of ancient tower, built around 1700 BC.
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a series of survey triangulation points that stretch from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, passing through ten countries and covering over 2,820 kilometers (1,750 miles). This chain provided the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc, which is a line of longitude on Earth. The chain was created and used by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, a German-born Russian scientist, between 1816 and 1855.
The Grande Île (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d il]; German: Große Insel; “Large Island”) is an island located in the historic center of Strasbourg, France. Its name comes from the fact that it is surrounded on one side by the main channel of the Ill River and on the other side by the Canal du Faux-Rempart, a canal that is part of the same river. The Grande Île was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
Stonehenge, Avebury, and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) located in Wiltshire, England. The WHS includes two large areas of land that are about 24 kilometers (15 miles) apart. These areas are not a single building or monument.
Stone Town, also called Mji Mkongwe (which means “old town” in Swahili), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar in Tanzania. The newer part of the city is called Ng’ambo, which means “the other side” in Swahili. Stone Town is located on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago.
The Senegambian stone circles, also known as the Wassu stone circles, are groups of large stone circles found in the Gambia, north of Janjanbureh, and in central Senegal. These circles cover an area of 30,000 square kilometers (12,000 square miles). Sometimes, they are divided into two groups: the Wassu circles in the Gambia and the Sine-Saloum circles in Senegal.
The Stoclet Palace (French: Palais Stoclet [palɛ stɔklɛ]; Dutch: Stocletpaleis [stɔˈklɛːpaːˌlɛis]), also called the Stoclet House, is a historic mansion in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, a city in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by the Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann for the Belgian financier Adolphe Stoclet and built between 1905 and 1911 in the Vienna Secession style. This residence is considered Hoffmann’s greatest work and is one of the most elegant and luxurious private homes of the 20th century.
Stećak (plural: stećci; Serbian Cyrillic: стећак, стећци) is the name for large tombstones from the medieval period that are found in many places across Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as parts of Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. About 60,000 of these tombstones are located within modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the remaining 10,000 are found in today’s Croatia (4,400), Montenegro (3,500), and Serbia (2,100). These tombstones are spread across more than 3,300 sites, with over 90% in poor condition.