Hùng Temple

The area is a complex consisting of several temples dedicated to the cult of Hùng Vương: the first descendants and the mythological founders of the Vietnamese, Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ.

Popular belief designates the Hùng temple as also the site of Văn Lang's capital, Phong Châu.

Legend recounts that in his search for a site for his court, Hùng Vương I traveled to 99 places but found none to his satisfaction.

[citation needed] Phạm Quỳnh made a pilgrimage to the temple complex in the late 1920s, describing it as a "symbol of the eternal soul of the nation".

[3] In 1956, Trần Huy Liệu proposed that the anniversaries of the Hùng Kings' deaths be celebrated at the temple collectively.