states: [vietnam]
category: cultural
year: 1999
location: Duy Phu Commune, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province
region: Asia and the Pacific
latitude/longitude: 15.5166666700, 108.5666667000
visited: 2017
Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contemporary Viet Nam. This is graphically illustrated by the remains of a series of impressive tower-temples located in a dramatic site that was the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom for most of its existence.
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