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Villas at Castelporziano
Villas at Castelporziano: Roman maritime villas of the Laurentine Shore south of Ostia, within Italy's Castelporziano Presidential Estate. Imperial and aristocratic seaside villas, the Vicus Augustanus service town, Pliny the Younger's Laurentinum, and Tor Paterno.
ville d’Auxerre
ville d'Auxerre: Pleiades gazetteer entry for a Gallo-Roman villa site 3 km south of Auxerre on the Yonne, about 1.6 hectares with baths, linked to Autessiodurum and excavated extensively in 2025.
Villepey
Villepey, in the Var, France, is a locality near Fréjus and Saint-Aygulf with a Gallo-Roman villa (villa Podii), the deserted medieval castrum Ville Piscis, and the 270-hectare Étangs de Villepey lagoon, a Ramsar wetland since 2008.
Villette
Villette: name of several French places, chiefly a Savoyard marble quarry worked from Roman times and revived in the 18th century; also La Villette in Paris, the mine de la Villette coal concession, and a 1914 national necropolis.
Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark
Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Extremadura, Spain: a ~2,500 km² Appalachian-relief territory, European Geopark 2011, UNESCO Global Geopark 2015, with 44-50 geosites and the Geocentros school project.
Vilnius Historic Centre
Vilnius Historic Centre (Vilniaus istorinis centras) is the UNESCO World Heritage old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, inscribed 1994 under criteria (ii) and (iv). It covers 352.09 ha with a 1,912.24 ha buffer zone, preserves a medieval radial street plan and Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and classical buildings, and was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1323.
Vilsandi
Vilsandi (Vilsandi rahvuspark) is an island and national park off western Saaremaa, Estonia. Its Vaika Islands bird sanctuary of 1910 was Estonia's and the Baltic States' first protected area; Ramsar site 913 since 1997.
Vimines
Vimines (Vimen, Viminis) is a commune in Savoie, France, near Chambéry, with a Gallo-Roman settlement, the brèche de Vimines marble quarry, and a history as a passage point across the Chaîne de l'Épine.
Viñales Valley
Viñales Valley (Valle de Viñales), Cuban karst valley in Pinar del Río with 300 m mogote hills; UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape since 1999, traditional tobacco farming, maroon and aboriginal archaeological sites, and national geopark since 2021.
vincom mark
vincom mark: a casino in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, listed in OpenStreetMap near Vincom Plaza Nha Trang; name echoes the Vincom trademark of Vingroup, registered in Vietnam in 2005.
Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve
Vindelälven-Juhttátahkka Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 19 June 2019, is Sweden's largest and northernmost, covering 1,329,118 ha of the free-flowing Vindel River catchment across Sápmi, with Swedish and Sami communities, forestry, and reindeer husbandry.
Vindocinum
Vindocinum, the Latin and Gaulish name of Vendôme in Loir-et-Cher, France; a Carnutes frontier fortress on Roman roads to Le Mans, distinct from Vindinum (Le Mans) and Vindonissa (Switzerland).
Vindolanda
Vindolanda, also known as Chesterholme, was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England, occupied from about AD 85 and known for the Vindolanda tablets.
Vindomora
Vindomora was a Roman auxiliary fort at Ebchester in County Durham, England, first built around AD 80 on Dere Street and occupied for over 300 years.
Vindonissa
Vindonissa, at Windisch-Brugg in Canton Aargau, was the only Roman legionary camp in Switzerland, garrisoned successively by legions XIII Gemina, XXI Rapax, and XI Claudia from about 16 to 101 CE, later a vicus, late Roman castrum, and bishopric.
Vindovala
Vindovala, also spelled Vindobala, is the Roman name of Rudchester fort, the fourth fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, England; a 1.8 ha auxiliary fort garrisoned by Cohors I Frisiavonum, distinct from Vindobona (Vienna).
Vine Garden
Vine Garden: a botanical garden section devoted to vine plants (climbing plants, 藤本园), displayed on pergolas and trellises; examples include Xishuangbanna's 15-hectare Vine Garden and Xiamen's 600-meter vine flower stands.
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato (Paesaggi vitivinicoli del Piemonte), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2014 in Doha under criteria (iii) and (v): a serial cultural landscape of five winegrowing areas plus Grinzane Cavour Castle, 10,785.33 ha, in southern Piedmont, Italy.
VinFast Stadium
VinFast Stadium (Sân vận động VinFast), formerly Trống Đồng and Hùng Vương Stadium, is a 135,000-seat stadium under construction in southern Hanoi by Vingroup, set to be the world's largest.
Vinno Jogot
Vinno Jogot (ভিন্ন জগৎ), also spelled Vinnya Jagat, is a private amusement park and resort established in 2001 on about 100 acres at Ganjipur, Gangachara Upazila, Rangpur, Bangladesh, with the country's first planetarium, Seven Wonders replicas, and the Dream Palace hotel.
Vinovia
Vinovia, also recorded as Vinovium, is the Roman name for the Roman fort and settlement at Binchester, County Durham, established around 80 AD on Dere Street.
VinWonders
VinWonders: Vingroup's Vietnamese theme park chain, rebranded from Vinpearl Land in 2020. Main parks at Nha Trang (Hon Tre Island), Phu Quoc (Vietnam's largest theme park), and Nam Hoi An, plus Cua Hoi, Vu Yen, and city venues.
VinWonders Phu Quoc
VinWonders Phu Quoc (VinWonders Phú Quốc), Vietnam's largest theme park at nearly 50 hectares on northwest Phu Quoc, opened June 1, 2020; six themed zones, Typhoon World water park, Sea Shell aquarium, Once show, operated by Vinpearl.
Vîrciorova
Vîrciorova (Vârciorova) is a village in Bolvaşniţa commune, Caraş-Severin, Banat, Romania, first attested 1433 under Nicolae Bizerea; 1,054 inhabitants in 2002, with Roman quarry, glass workshop, coal and quartz mining, distinct from the flooded Danube namesake.
Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument is a mostly submerged national monument off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, protecting about 12,708 marine acres of coral reef.
Virgin Islands National Park
Virgin Islands National Park, on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, established 1956, protects dry tropical forest and reefs; NPS manages about 58 percent of the island and a 2001 coral reef monument adds 12,708 submerged acres.
Virgin Komi Forests
Virgin Komi Forests (Девственные леса Коми), Russian UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1995, dossier 719; 3.28 million ha of virgin boreal forest and Ural tundra in the Komi Republic, Europe's largest unfragmented old-growth taiga, threatened by gold mining.
Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve
Virginia Coast Biosphere Reserve, also the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR), a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve since 1979 on Virginia's Eastern Shore; 68,821 ha with 14 barrier islands, managed by The Nature Conservancy, home to the VCR LTER and a landmark seagrass restoration.
Virosidum
Virosidum, the Roman fort at Brough-by-Bainbridge in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, garrisoned by Cohors VI Nerviorum, occupied from Agricola's governorship to the end of Roman Britain, with Severan rebuilding and the disputed Cam High Road.
Vîrtop
Vîrtop: Roman fort site near Bumbești-Jiu, Gorj County, Romania, recorded in Pleiades as BAtlas 21 F4; one of two Roman castra by the Jiu gorge, occupied from Trajan's Dacian wars and rebuilt in stone in AD 201.