L'offrande au Gange - Varanasi (Bénarès) - Inde

Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India, that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. Located in the middle-Ganges valley in the southeastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi lies on the left bank of the river. It is to the southeast of India's capital New Delhi and to the east of the state capital, Lucknow. It lies downstream of Allahabad …