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Ponagar Tower Festival in Nha Trang
The Thap Ba Ponagar Festival is held each year on the twentieth to twenty-third days of the third lunar month at the Cham-built Ponagar Towers overlooking Nha Trang, honoring the goddess Po Nagar, revered by both Cham and Vietnamese communities as a mother deity of the land.
On a hill overlooking the mouth of the Cai River in Nha Trang, the Ponagar Towers have stood since Cham builders raised them across several centuries, roughly the eighth to the thirteenth, dedicating the site to a goddess known to Cham communities as the mother of the land.