10 km northwest of Beijing city, it is one of China's largest (290 hectares) and best-preserved imperial gardens.
The Summer Palace
10 km northwest of Beijing city, it is one of China's largest
(290 hectares) and best-preserved imperial gardens.
Beihai Park
An inner city palace garden started to be built in the 10th
century, the Beihai (north sea) Park is one of China's oldest and
largest (68 hectares) gardens of classical elegance.
The Temple of
Heaven
Started to be built in 1420, it is China's largest temple and
altar complex (270 hectares) where the emperors of the Ming and
Qing dynasties worshipped heaven and prayed for abundant
harvests.
The Palace Museum
The former Forbidden City, built between 1406 and 1420 in
the center of Beijing city proper, had been the imperial
residence of 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing (1644-1911)
dynasties. Covering an area of 72 hectares, with some 160,000
square metres of floor space and 9,999 room units, it is one of
the largest and best preserved palace complexes in the world.
Here are collected around a million rare and valuable objects.
The Great Wall
Said to be one of the two human engineering projects
visible by astronauts from space with naked eyes, this symbol of
ancient Chinese civilization has stood grandly in the land of
China for more than 2,000 years. It serpentines among loft
mountains for 6,250 kilometers. The photographs here were taken
from the Badaling section located at 75 kilometers north of
Beijing.
