Royal Hill Ambohimanga
Ambohimanga is a Hill and traditional fortified royal settlement (rova) in Madagascar.
The hill and the rova that stands on top are considered the most significant symbol of the cultural identity of the Merina people and the most important and best-preserved monument of the precolonial Merina Kingdom.
The walled historic village includes residences and burial sites of several key monarchs. It remains a place of worship to which pilgrims come from Madagascar and elsewhere.
The name Ambohimanga is a noun-adjective compound in the standard Malagasy language composed of two parts: ambohi, meaning “hill”, and manga, which can mean “sacred”, “blue”, “beautiful” or “good”.