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I am trying to make a photo set for the Champa Towers by myselt. This is Silver (Banh It) Towers in Binh Dinh Province.

The major Chăm monuments in Việt Nam are as follows:

Bằng An Tower
Bánh Ít (Silver) Chăm Towers
Bình Lâm Chăm Tower and Thị Nại Citadel
Cánh Tiên (Brass) Chăm Tower and Đồ Bàn Citadel
Chiên Đàn Chăm Towers
Đồng Dương Citadel (Indrapura)
Dương Long (Ivory) Chăm Towers
Hòa Lai Chăm Towers
Hưng Thạnh (Twin) Chăm Towers
Khương Mỹ Chăm Towers
Mỹ Sơn
Nhạn (Swallow) Chăm Tower
Phú Hải (Pô Xahnư) Chăm Towers
Phước Lốc (Gold) Chăm Tower
Pô Đam Chăm Towers
Pô Klông Garai Chăm Towers
Pô Nagar Chăm Towers
Pô Rô Mê Chăm Tower
Thủ Thiện Chăm Tower
Trà Kiệu Citadel (Simhapura)
Yang Prong Chăm Tower
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Bánh Ít (Silver) Chăm Towers
Located some 20 kilometres north of Quy Nhơn on a hill to the east of National Highway 1A (close to the intersection with National Highway 19), Bánh Ít Chăm Towers comprise four structures, all that now remain of a larger group constructed during the 11th century. The meaningless name 'Silver Tower' was given to the complex by the French, apparently due to a mistranslation of a local Vietnamese name for the towers. The architecture of the complex marks the first flowering of the monumental and imposing Bình Định style (late 11th-early 14th centuries), which emerged after King Sri Yang Puku Vijaya, under pressure from the Đại Việt to the north, moved the Chăm capital south to present-day Bình Định Province. The two main structures at the summit of the hill comprise a beautifully-decorated central kalan flanked on its south side by a building for the preparation of offerings to the deity with a horse saddle-shaped roof; both are surrounded by debris and foundations of other buildings. Below on the south side of the hill stands a gate tower and on the south east side a further tower. One of the most valuable pieces found at Bánh Ít by the French colonial authorities - a magnificent statue of Shiva - has pride of place in the National Museum of Asian Arts - Guimet in Paris. Bánh Ít towers are currently undergoing restoration by the provincial authorities.