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Ban Luang Kao, the "village of the old capital", is located along the Mekong River. It was next to the Catholic Church here that the famous Devanika stele was found. This stele tells of the founding of a city (now identified as Shrestrapura) in the 5th century AD. Ban Luang Kao, therefore, is at the approximate centre of the ancient city. The church is one of the oldest churches in Laos, built there at the end of the 19th century.

Rice paddies and traditional wood houses occupy much of the area of the Ancient City.