Ba Chua Xu Bau Muop Shrine
A mid-nineteenth-century pilgrimage shrine in Thoi Son where frontier settlement memory, folk belief and the Bau Muop landscape remain closely intertwined
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Ba Chua Xu Temple at Sam Mountain
A major southern Vietnamese pilgrimage shrine where sacred legend, frontier memory and a UNESCO-recognized festival meet at the foot of Sam Mountain
Explore ↗Bac Ninh Quan Ho Heritage
UNESCO-recognized responsive folk singing sustained through paired singers, twinned villages, etiquette and shared repertory
Explore ↗Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
A late-14th-century imperial citadel where monumental stone engineering, geomancy and state reform converge
Explore ↗Complex of Hue Monuments
Vietnam's Nguyen imperial capital, where architecture, ceremony, river and landscape form one World Heritage ensemble
Explore ↗Dinh Cau Phu Quoc
A sea-facing shrine on a rocky cape where Phu Quoc's fishing culture, folk belief and sunset landscape converge
Explore ↗Dong Ho Folk Woodblock Printing Heritage
A village printmaking tradition of carved woodblocks, điệp paper and hand-applied colours, inscribed by UNESCO in 2025 for urgent safeguarding
Explore ↗Festival of Ba Chua Xu Goddess at Sam Mountain
A UNESCO-inscribed pilgrimage tradition where ritual, music, procession and multi-community participation converge at Sam Mountain
Explore ↗Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago
A vast marine-karst World Heritage property of limestone towers, caves, islands and ecosystems across Quang Ninh and Hai Phong
Explore ↗Ho Quoc Pagoda
A contemporary Truc Lam Buddhist monastery on Phu Quoc, set between forested mountain slopes and the Gulf of Thailand
Explore ↗Hoi An Ancient Town
An exceptionally preserved historic trading town shaped by centuries of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and European exchange
Explore ↗Huu Chap Tugging Ritual Heritage
A village ritual of cooperation, fertility and communal continuity within UNESCO's multinational tugging-ritual tradition
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A World Heritage landscape where more than a millennium of Vietnamese political history survives in architecture and archaeology
Explore ↗Luy Lau and Early Buddhist Heritage
An ancient political, trading and religious landscape central to understanding the early history of Buddhism in Vietnam
Explore ↗Ly Dynasty Kinh Bac Heritage
The royal homeland landscape linking Dinh Bang, Do Temple and Kinh Bac to the origins and memory of the Ly dynasty
Explore ↗Mac Cuu Mausoleum
A hillside memorial complex where the story of Mac Cuu, the Mac family and the formation of Ha Tien is written into tombs, worship and landscape
Explore ↗My Son Sanctuary
The monumental religious centre of Champa, set in a sacred valley of brick towers, archaeology and mountain landscape
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A sacred island temple where worship, scholarship and the symbolic landscape of Hoan Kiem Lake meet
Explore ↗Nguyen Trung Truc Commemorative Heritage
Living historical memory centred on Rach Gia and carried across the Gulf coast
Explore ↗Oc Eo - Ba The Archaeological Site
An archaeological landscape of settlements, sacred architecture, burials and waterways that reveals the reach of Oc Eo culture across the Mekong Delta
Explore ↗Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
A transboundary World Heritage karst system of immense caves, underground rivers, ancient limestone and exceptional biodiversity
Explore ↗Phu Quoc Prison
A Special National Relic preserving the memory of prisoners, wartime detention and the human cost of conflict on Phu Quoc
Explore ↗Seven Mountains Sacred Landscape
A rare Mekong Delta mountain landscape shaped by pilgrimage, Khmer cultural life, frontier memory and generations of spiritual imagination
Explore ↗Trang An Landscape Complex
Vietnam's mixed World Heritage landscape of tower karst, caves, waterways, archaeology and Hoa Lu history
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