Astrology and astronomy

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Astrology and astronomy':

  • Chaco Culture Pueblo Bonito - layout and astronomical petroglyphs
  • Chichen-Itza El Caracol
  • El Fuerte de Samaipata
  • El Tajin
  • Gyeongju
  • Maritime Greenwich
  • Nasca Lines
  • Pienza Piccolomini Palace: Allesandro Piccolomini was a 16th century scholar and astronomer, who wrote The treatises Sfera del mondo e Delle stelle fisse (The sphere of the world and The fixed stars) (1540), in which he adhered to Ptolemaic theories.
  • Potsdam Babelsberg Observatory
  • Quirigua
  • Quseir Amra Has a very early Zodiac painted on the ceiling of the dome
  • Samarkand
  • St. Petersburg Pulkovo Observatory (Struve was its first director)
  • Stonehenge
  • Struve Geodetic Arc Tartu Observatory
  • Tiwanaku
  • Torun
  • Uxmal
  • Vatican City The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world. In fact, three early observatories were founded by the Papacy: the Observatory of the Roman College (1774-1878), the Observatory of the Capitol (1827-1870), and the Specula Vaticana (1789-1821).
  • Xochicalco
  • Yin Xu