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    Visit Vamana Temple, India (UNESCO site)

    Visit Vamana Temple, India (UNESCO site)

    Vamana temple is a Hindu mandir dedicated to Vamana, an incarnation of the deity Vishnu. Vamana (Devanagari: वामन, IAST: Vāmana) is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or the Treta yuga. He is the first Avatar of Vishnu which appears with a completely human form, though it was that of a...
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    Visit Varaha Cave Temple, India (UNESCO Site)

    Visit Varaha Cave Temple, India (UNESCO Site)

    Varaha Cave Temple (also Adivaraha Cave Temple) is a rock-cut cave temple located at Mamallapuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal in Kancheepuram District in Tamil Nadu, India. It is part of the hill top village, which is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the north of the main Mahabalipurm sites of rathas and the Shore Temple. It is an example of Indian rock-cut ...
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    Visit Varaha Temple, India (UNESCO site)

    Visit Varaha Temple, India (UNESCO site)

    The Varaha Temple at Khajuraho enshrines a colossal monolithic image of Varaha, the boar incarnation of Lord Vishnu. This temple depicts Varaha as a purely animal form. The temple is located in the Western Group of Temple Complex Khajuraho Group of Monuments, a World Heritage Site inscribed by UNESCO in 1986 in Khajuraho.Khajuraho is a small village in Chattarpur Dist...
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    Visit Varakhsha, Uzbekistan

    Visit Varakhsha, Uzbekistan

    Varakhsha, also Varasha or Varahsha, was an ancient city in the Bukhara oasis in Sogdia, founded in the 1st century BCE. It is located 39 kilometers to the northwest of Bukhara. Varakhsha was the capital of the Sogdian dynasty of the kings of Bukhara, the Bukhar Khudahs. It ultimately never recovered from the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. Beautiful murals have been ...
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    See Vardzia, Georgia

    See Vardzia, Georgia

    Vardzia is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Mtkvari River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century. The caves stretch along the cliff for some five hundred metres and in up to nineteen tiers. The Church of the Dormiti...
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    Visit Vatican Necropolis, Vatican City

    Visit Vatican Necropolis, Vatican City

    The Vatican Necropolis lies under the Vatican City, at depths varying between 5–12 meters below Saint Peter's Basilica. The Vatican sponsored archeological excavations under Saint Peter's in the years 1940–1949 which revealed parts of a necropolis dating to Imperial times. The work was undertaken at the request of Pope Pius XI who wished to be buried ...
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    See Vatnsfjörður Viking Ruins, Westfjords, Iceland

    See Vatnsfjörður Viking Ruins, Westfjords, Iceland

    During archaeological excavations from 2003-2013, ruins of a Viking longhouse from the 10th century were discovered at Vatnsfjörður. This archaeological area is very well marked which makes it an interesting place to visit.
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    Visit Velika i Mala Crljivica, Cista Velika, Croatia

    Visit Velika i Mala Crljivica, Cista Velika, Croatia

    Stećak is the name for monumental medieval tombstones, that lie scattered across Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the border parts of Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Stećci are inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO since 2016, with a selection of some 4,000 individual monoliths, grouped in necropolis...
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    Visit Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria

    Visit Veliki Preslav, Bulgaria

    Veliki Preslav is a city and the seat of government of the Veliki Preslav Municipality (Great Preslav Municipality, new Bulgarian: obshtina), which in turn is part of Shumen Province. Veliki Preslav is situated at an altitude of 132 m. A former village, it assumed the name of the medieval capital in 1878 and became a town in 1883. As of December 2009, it has a populat...
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    Visit Veliko Jezero Necropolis, Visočica Mountains, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Visit Veliko Jezero Necropolis, Visočica Mountains, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    On several sites within Visočica stećci are found. These medieval tombstones are typical for Bosnia-Herzegovina and were erected in the 14th and 15th centuries. Visočica has two so-called necropoli that are of particular interest because they are located at high altitude amidst these mountains where no trace of contemporary or historical habitation can be found. The n...
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    See Verona Arena, Italy (UNESCO site)

    See Verona Arena, Italy (UNESCO site)

    The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind. The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were...
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    Explore Vesuvius National Park, Italy

    Explore Vesuvius National Park, Italy

    Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, Italy, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The two other major active volcanoes in Italy, Etna and Stromboli, are located on islands. Ve...
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    Visit Vigna Randanini, Rome, Italy

    Visit Vigna Randanini, Rome, Italy

    The Vigna Randanini are Jewish Catacombs between the second and third miles of the Appian Way close to the Christian catacombs of Saint Sebastian, with which they were originally confused. The catacombs date between the 2nd and 5th-centuries CE, and take their name from the owners of the land when they were first formally discovered and from the fact that the land was...
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    Visit Vilcabamba (Lost City of the Incas), Peru

    Visit Vilcabamba (Lost City of the Incas), Peru

    Vilcabamba (in Hispanicized spelling) or Willkapampa (Aymara and Quechua) is often called the Lost City of the Incas. Vilcabamba means "sacred plain" in Quechua. The modern name for the Inca ruins of Vilcabamba is Espíritu Pampa (Plain of the Spirits). Vilcabamba is located in Echarate District of La Convención Province in the Cuzco Region of Peru. Vilca...
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    Visit Villa of the Quintilii, Rome, Italy

    Visit Villa of the Quintilii, Rome, Italy

    The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) is an ancient Roman villa beyond the fifth milestone along the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome, Italy. It was built by the rich and cultured brothers Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus (consuls in 151 AD). The ruins of thisvilla suburbanaare of suc...
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