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Ravenna

Ravenna is a city in northeastern Italy known for eight early Christian monuments included in a UNESCO World Heritage pr...

Italy Byzantine City Roman

9.27 Excellent

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Tarquinia

Tarquinia was an important Etruscan city in central Italy, and its principal archaeological remains include the Monteroz...

Italy Tomb Necropolis Etruscan

9.14 Excellent

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Cerveteri

Cerveteri was an ancient Etruscan settlement in central Italy, known in archaeology for the Banditaccia necropolis. The...

Italy Tomb Necropolis Etruscan

9.08 Excellent

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Butrint

Butrint is an archaeological site in southern Albania on a peninsula beside the Vivari Channel and the Butrint lagoon. T...

City Greek Roman Albania

9.07 Excellent

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Troy (Hisarlik)

Located in northwestern Anatolia in modern-day Turkey, the archaeological site of Hisarlik is widely identified as the a...

Turkey City Ancient Bronze Age

9.05 Excellent

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Syracuse

Syracuse is an ancient city on the southeastern coast of Sicily, founded by Greek settlers from Corinth in the eighth ce...

Italy City Greek Roman

9.05 Excellent

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Su Nuraxi

Su Nuraxi is a Nuragic archaeological complex at Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, centered on a stone tower known as a nurag...

Italy Tower Bronze Age Nuragic

9.03 Excellent

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Aquileia

Aquileia was a Roman city founded in northeastern Italy in 181 BCE. Its position near the northern Adriatic made it an i...

Italy City Roman Ruins

8.94 Great

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Vijayanagara (Hampi)

Vijayanagara, historically centered around the modern village of Hampi in Karnataka, India, was the capital of the Vijay...

India City Temple 14TH Century

8.88 Great

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Ohrid

Ohrid is a historic city in North Macedonia, known in antiquity as Lychnidos and for archaeological remains from the Rom...

Medieval City North Macedonia Churches

8.86 Great

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Baiae

Baiae was an ancient Roman settlement and leisure resort on the Gulf of Naples in Italy, known for thermal springs, vill...

Italy Resort Roman Ruins

8.74 Great

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Pantalica

Pantalica is an ancient necropolis in southeastern Sicily, Italy, located on a limestone plateau between the Anapo and C...

Italy Rock Cut Bronze Age Necropolis

8.64 Great

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Motya

Motya was a Phoenician settlement on San Pantaleo, a small island in the Stagnone lagoon off the western coast of Sicily...

Italy City Island Phoenician

8.58 Great

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Capua

Capua was an ancient city of Campania in southern Italy, first associated with the Etruscans and later incorporated into...

Italy City Roman Etruscan

8.16 Great

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Vulci

Vulci was an Etruscan city in present-day Lazio that later developed under Roman rule. The archaeological and natural pa...

Italy City Necropolis Etruscan

7.92 Good

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Solunto

Solunto is an ancient settlement on the northern coast of Sicily near Santa Flavia and Palermo. It began as a Phoenician...

Italy City Roman Phoenician

7.88 Good

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Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea was an ancient Greek colony on the eastern coast of Sicily, near the modern city of Augusta. Greek settle...

Italy City Greek Ruins

7.83 Good

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Velia

Velia was an ancient Greek colony on the coast of the Cilento region in southern Italy. Founded by Greek settlers from P...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.69 Good

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Roselle

Roselle is an archaeological site near Grosseto in Tuscany, Italy, preserving the remains of an ancient Etruscan settlem...

Italy City Roman Etruscan

7.67 Good

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Gela

Gela was an ancient Greek colony on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, founded in 689 or 688 BCE by colonists traditio...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.47 Good