Obelisk

An obelisk is a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Obelisk':

  • Aksum
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
  • Aranjuez In the Island Garden
  • Arles
  • Blenheim Palace
  • Byblos Temple of the Obelisks
  • Chavin The obelisk now is in a Lima museum
  • Cienfuegos Pedro Modesto Hernández, Paseo del Prado. 37th Street (nom file)
  • Istanbul
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
  • Mérida
  • Naples Guglia dell'Immacolata
  • Old Havana At Cabana fortress
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine
  • Petra
  • Potsdam Obelisk in Sanssouci Park
  • Prague 3rd court of the castle
  • Regensburg Obelisk for Karl Anselm von Thurn und Taxis, 1806
  • Rome
  • Schönbrunn
  • Struve Geodetic Arc Struve Meridian Obelisk, Hammerfest
  • Studley Royal Park Studley Obelisk ; link
  • Urbino
  • Vatican City In the middle of St Peter Square
  • Villa d'Este At the Rometta Fountain: in a small pool floats a boat with a mast in the shape of an obelisk, illustrating the Tiber island (AB ev); link