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Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden
Vasyl Stefanyk Botanical Garden (Botanical Garden of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University), Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine; university scientific-research unit for plant study, preservation, and acclimatization; 54 insect species recorded in 2018.
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2001) in Champasak Province, southern Laos; Khmer-era temple complex, planned cities Shrestrapura and Lingapura, 39,000 ha along the Mekong.
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i
Vatanparvarlar Bog'i (Patriots' Park), a military-patriotic culture and recreation park in Qarshi, Uzbekistan, with a WWII museum, military hardware, a giant map of Uzbekistan, and about 7 hectares of grounds.
Vatia, American Samoa
Vatia is a village on Vatia Bay, north coast of Tutuila, American Samoa, a gateway village of the National Park of American Samoa; home to Old Vatia (National Register), Pola Island seabird sanctuary, and trails to Mount 'Alava.
Vatican Grottoes
The Vatican Grottoes (Grotte Vaticane) are vaulted chapels beneath St. Peter's Basilica, built 1590–1591, housing papal tombs including Benedict XVI's and monuments from the old basilica, distinct from the Necropolis below.
Vatican Necropolis
The Vatican Necropolis is an ancient Roman burial ground on Vatican Hill, lying 3 to 11 meters beneath Saint Peter's Basilica and venerated as the site of Peter's tomb.
Vatican obelisk
The Vatican obelisk, an uninscribed red granite Egyptian monolith (25.36 m, 330 t) in St Peter's Square, brought to Rome by Caligula for his circus and re-erected there by Domenico Fontana for Sixtus V in 1586.
Vatnajökull National Park
Vatnajökull National Park is an Icelandic national park centered on Europe's largest glacier. Established in 2008, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.
Vaugrenier
Vaugrenier is a Gallo-Roman archaeological site at Villeneuve-Loubet in the Alpes-Maritimes, France, with a Roman temple built in the late 1st century BC and abandoned under Trajan.
Vax/Villa Repentina
Vax/Villa Repentina, also Vax villa Repentina, a minor Roman road station in Tripolitania, modern Libya, on the Antonine Itinerary (62.1) and Tabula Peutingeriana, 27 miles from Sabratha, tentatively located between ez-Zavia and et-Tuebia.
Vegaøyan – The Vega Archipelago
Vegaøyan (Vega Archipelago), a Norwegian World Heritage Site in Nordland inscribed in 2004 under criterion (v): about 6,500 islands where fishermen-farmers sustained a 1,500-year eider down harvesting tradition centered on women's work.
Velletri-Stimmate
Velletri-Stimmate (Area Archeologica delle SS. Stimmate, Tempio delle Stimmate) is an archaeological site in Velletri, Lazio: Iron Age settlement, Etruscan-Italic temple of about 530 BC, 1602 church, and the 1784 find of the Volscian Tabula Veliterna.
Velpur Mound
Velpur Mound (Velpuru), "The Mounds with ancient remains", a centrally protected ASI monument (N-AP-61) in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, with 4th-5th century Buddhist monastery pillars and 2026 ASI excavation works.
Velsen
Velsen (Castellum Flevum): two early Roman forts and harbours on the Oer-IJ in North Holland, Netherlands. Velsen 1 (c. AD 15–30, Tacitus's Flevum, Frisian attack of AD 28) and Velsen 2 (c. AD 39–47, an 11-hectare legionary fortress linked to the invasion of Britain).
Velunia(te)
Velunia(te), also Velunia or Veluniate, is the Roman name of the Carriden fort, the easternmost fort of Scotland's Antonine Wall, known from a 1956 altar and the Ravenna Cosmography; the only Wall fort with a known Roman name.
Vemania
Vemania (Isny-Bettmauer, Burkwang) was a Roman and late Roman fort in Raetia near Isny im Allgäu, Germany, on the Danube-Iller-Rhein limes; built under Aurelian in the 270s, garrisoned by Legio III Italica prefects per the Notitia Dignitatum.
Vembanad-Kol Wetland
Vembanad-Kol Wetland, a Ramsar site (2002) in Kerala, India, is the largest brackish humid tropical wetland on India's southwest coast: 151,250 ha fed by ten Western Ghats rivers, supporting Kuttanad's below-sea-level paddy farming, major waterbird populations, and 0.2 million livelihoods.
Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar
Venetian Works of Defence: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar, a 2017 UNESCO serial site of six bastioned fortifications (Bergamo, Peschiera del Garda, Palmanova, Zadar, Šibenik, Kotor) in Italy, Croatia, and Montenegro, spanning over 1,000 km of 16th–17th century alla moderna defenses.
Venice Canal Historic District
The Venice Canal Historic District, also known as the Venice Canals, is a district of six man-made canals in Venice, Los Angeles, built in 1905.
Venice Land
Venice Land (베니스랜드) is a Venice-themed gondola park in Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo, Jeju, South Korea, opened April 2018, with 23 themed areas, 700 meters of canals, 10-meter gondolas, and a World Ethnic Museum.
Venivadar Mound
Venivadar Mound (Ancient Site, Venivadar) is a centrally protected ASI archaeological site in Venivadar village, Amreli district, Gujarat; submerged under Vadi Dam waters and classified untraceable, with a 2010 proposal to retrieve its artifacts.
Verbinum/Vironum
Verbinum/Vironum: Roman mansio and vicus near modern Vervins, Aisne, France, on the Reims–Bavay road in Gallia Belgica; Vironum in the Antonine Itinerary, Verbinum on the Peutinger Table; 1870s finds include a theater and temple; distinct from Virunum in Noricum.
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
Verla Groundwood and Board Mill is a former wood-processing mill village in southeast Finland, preserved with its machinery and workers' housing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and industrial museum.
Vernas
Vernas is a commune in northern Isère, France, north of the Rhône valley, known for a Gallic chariot tomb uncovered in 1818 and a dolmen called the tombeau du général.
Vernus Sol
Vernus Sol, an ancient place in the Pleiades gazetteer, cited BAtlas 25 G2; a road or coastal station of the Roman early Empire (30 BC-AD 300), record by S.J. Keay.
Verőce
Verőce, a village in Hungary's Danube Bend, preserves a 4th-century Roman fortified port on the Danube, excavated in the 1930s and now presented as the Solva 38 Roman Watchtower on the Danube limes.
Veroli
Veroli (ancient Verulae) is a hill town in Frosinone province, Lazio, about 600 m high on the Ernici Mountains, with Ernici polygonal walls, the Roman Fasti Verolani calendar, and the 2024 Amedeo Maiuri National Archaeological Museum.
Verona Arena
Verona Arena (Arena di Verona): 1st-century Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra, Verona, with 30,000-seat elliptical cavea; since 1913 home of the summer Arena Opera Festival founded with Aida by Giovanni Zenatello.
Verteris
Verteris (Verterae), Roman auxiliary fort at Brough-under-Stainmore, Cumbria, guarding the Stainmore Pass on the York-Carlisle Roman road; occupied from Agricola's governorship to the late 4th century, later overlain by Brough Castle.
Very Extensive Ancient Site Consisting of Ruined Fort
Very Extensive Ancient Site Consisting of Ruined Fort, Bairant, Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh: an ASI centrally protected earthwork fort (1,350 x 900 ft) on the Banganga, protected in 1920, distinct from Bairat, Rajasthan.