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Via Vitularia
Via Vitularia, a Roman road near Arpinum (Arpino), Italy, mentioned only by Cicero in Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1.3; name from vitula "heifer," possibly a droving route; now unlocated.
Vicarello
Vicarello is a hamlet and historic estate on the northwestern shore of Lake Bracciano, Lazio, Italy, best known for Roman thermal baths and the silver Vicarello Cups found at its spring.
Victor Emmanuel II Monument
The Victor Emmanuel II Monument (Vittoriano) is Rome's white marble monument to Italy's first king on the Capitoline Hill, designed by Giuseppe Sacconi, built 1885-1935, housing the Altar of the Fatherland and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier since 1921.
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata: white-marble museum built 1906-1921 for Queen Victoria, designed by William Emerson; ~28,000 artefacts, India's most-visited museum, run by Ministry of Culture.
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai: 94-building UNESCO World Heritage Site (2018, criteria ii and iv, 66.34 ha) where 19th-century Indo-Gothic public buildings face Indo-Deco Marine Drive buildings across the Oval Maidan.
Victumulae
Victumulae, also Victimulae or Ictimuli, a Cisalpine Gaul settlement in Vercellae territory, Piedmont, tied to the Bessa gold mines and captured by Hannibal in 218 BC; site debated between Salussola and Zubiena near Biella.
Victuriacus
Victuriacus (Victuriaci castri, Victuriacum castrum) was a fortified place in northern Gaul, identified with Vitry-en-Perthois, Marne, France. Gregory of Tours records the seven-day siege of the castrum in AD 532 during Munderic's revolt against King Theuderic; Flodoard mentions it in 914 and 936.
Vicus Antoniae Saturninae
Vicus Antoniae Saturninae (vicus Pacatensis): Roman village and twice-monthly private market (nundinae) at Aïn Mechira, Numidia, founded 2nd century AD by Antonia Saturnina, wife of C. Arrius Pacatus; known from inscriptions C. 8280 and CIL 7032.
Vicus Censorius
Vicus Censorius (Vicus Censori), a street of ancient Rome on the Tiber Island connecting the Pons Cestius and Pons Fabricius; the island's only known vicus, attested in CIL inscriptions and the Forma Urbis.
Vicus Iugarius
Vicus Iugarius (Vico Jugario), an ancient Roman street from the Forum along the Capitoline's base to the porta Carmentalis and the Tiber; a pre-urban trade route named for an altar of Iuno Iuga.
Vicus Novus/Ad Novas
Vicus Novus/Ad Novas, a Roman vicus and mansio on the Via Salaria at modern Osteria Nuova (Rieti), 16 miles from Reate, belonging to Trebula; distinct from the Campanian vicus Novanensis on the Via Appia and other Ad Novas stations.
Vicus Serninus
Vicus Serninus, an unlocated Roman road station (vicus) on the via Emilia Altinate in the Antonine Itinerary, where roads from Modena and Bologna met toward Vicus Varianus and Aquileia; proposed sites cluster near Crevalcore, Guisa Pepoli, Decima, and Maccaretolo.
Vidolm
Vidolm is an ancient gold-washing site in Alba County, Romania (Dacia), at 46.480108°N 23.511795°E, with a possibly Roman axe and 2nd–3rd century coins; also the name of the Vidolm Nappe tectonic unit in the Apuseni Mountains.
Vidra
Vidra is the name of several places and archaeological subjects in Romania, including a Roman-period gold-washing site in the Apuseni Mountains and a Chalcolithic tell settlement in Ilfov County.
Vieil-Évreux Roman Baths
Vieil-Évreux Roman Baths (Gisacum thermes): Gallo-Roman public baths of the sanctuary town of Gisacum near Évreux, France, with twin bathing wings, hypocaust heating, a 25 km aqueduct, and an archaeological garden open since 2002.
Vietheil
Vietheil: hamlet in Pradines, Corrèze, France, and a Roman-period ancient place (Barrington Atlas 14 G3, Pleiades) near the Gallo-Roman fanum of Les Jaillants; also the 65-hectare Landes de Vietheil ZNIEFF heathland.
Vieux-Rouen
Vieux-Rouen (Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle), Seine-Maritime, France: a large Gallo-Roman villa site, Pleiades 109430, discovered by Roger Agache's aerial survey in 1973; main building about 95 x 60 m, disputed as official building or prestige villa.
Vigna Bevilacqua
Vigna Bevilacqua, an archaeological site near Frascati, Lazio, where Edward Dodwell documented polygonal masonry in 1834, thought to belong to a Roman villa platform; distinct from same-named vigne at Marino and on Rome's via Flaminia.
Vigna Parrocchiale archaeological area
Vigna Parrocchiale is an archaeological area on the urban plateau of ancient Caere (Cerveteri), Italy, excavated by CNR under Mauro Cristofani in 1983–1989, revealing an archaic residence, a fifth-century BCE temple, and the elliptical building.
Vigna Pia necropolis
Vigna Pia necropolis, a section of Rome's Portuense necropolis at the Casale di Vigna Pia near via Portuense, an open-air museum of 1st-3rd century AD funerary monuments; distinct from the Etruscan Vigna la Piazza necropolis at Grotte di Castro.
Vigna Randanini
Vigna Randanini, Jewish catacomb on Rome's Via Appia between Via Appia Antica and Via Appia Pignatelli, discovered 1859, about 700 m of galleries on two levels, kokhim tombs unique among Rome's Jewish catacombs, about 200 Greek and Latin inscriptions, four building phases per 2022 3D-scan study.
Vigna Spinabella
Vigna Spinabella, a locality near Bovillae (Frattocchie), Marino, Lazio; site of a Roman villa occupied from the Augustan age to late antiquity, Barrington Atlas 43 C2 no. 44, with Republican votive finds.
Viking Cinema Park
Кинопарк «Викинг» (Viking Cinema Park) is Crimea's open-air theme park in Perevalnoye near the Red Caves, built from sets of the 2016 film Viking; 6 ha, 55 medieval structures, opened 2016, fire destroyed 13 of 15 sets in April 2025.
Viking-Age Ring Fortresses
Viking-Age Ring Fortresses: five Danish ring fortresses (Aggersborg, Fyrkat, Nonnebakken, Trelleborg, Borgring) built c. 970–980 CE by Harald Bluetooth, sharing uniform geometric design; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2023.
Vikos - Aoos UNESCO Global Geopark
Vikos-Aoos UNESCO Global Geopark (Vikos-Aoos Geopark) is a 1,200 km² geopark in Epirus, NW Greece, established 2010, UNESCO-listed 2015, featuring the Vikos and Aoos gorges, Mt. Smolikas (2,637 m), and 51 geosites.
Vila Cardílio
Vila Cardílio is a Roman villa ruin near Torres Novas, Portugal, occupied from the 1st to 4th centuries AD and known for mosaics naming owners Cardílio and Avita.
Vilarenc
Vilarenc (El Vilarenc, Vil·la romana del Vilarenc) is a Roman villa site in Calafell, Tarragona, Catalonia, 30 km north of Tarraco. Discovered 1883, it has baths, 110,000-liter cisterns, a wine press, a pottery workshop, and a 1st-century AD forge.
Vilauba Roman Villa
Vilauba Roman Villa (vil·la romana de Vilauba, ancient Villa Alba) is an excavated Roman and Visigothic rural estate in Camós, Pla de l'Estany, Catalonia, occupied from the 2nd–1st century BC to the 6th–7th century AD, with an olive-oil press, coin hoards, and excavations since 1978.
Villa Augustea
Villa Augustea, or Villa of Augustus (Villa di Augusto), a monumental Roman villa at Somma Vesuviana on Vesuvius's northern slope; survived 79 AD, buried by the 472 AD eruption; excavated by the University of Tokyo since 2002 as the possible death place of Emperor Augustus.
Villa Borghese gardens
Villa Borghese gardens (Giardini di Villa Borghese), Rome's 80-hectare historic landscape park on the Pincian Hill, begun 1606 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, state-bought 1901, public since 1903, home to Galleria Borghese, Bioparco and Giardino del Lago.