Banares From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Look up Benares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Banares may refer to: Varanasi (sometimes transliterated: Banares), a city in Uttar Pradesh, India Bañares, a municipality in La Rioja, Spain See also[edit] Varanasi (disambiguation) Banaras (disambiguation) Kashi (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same termThis disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.