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At the historical heart of Beijing lies the Forbidden City, the enormous palace compound that was the home of the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City hosts the Palace Museum, which contains imperial collections of Chinese art.

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DISCOVER BEIJING: Ancient Observatory, Beihai Park, Beijing Opera, Botanical Garden, Chaoyang Park, Forbidden City, National Centre for the Performing Arts, National Stadium, Shichahai, Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Tianning Temple, Wangfujing Road, Zhoukoudian,

ANCIENT OBSERVATORY OF BEIJING The Beijing Ancient Observatory is a pretelescopic observatory located in Beijing, China. The revolutionary tools used within this ancient observatory were built in 1442 during the Ming Dynasty, and later amended during the Qing. As one of the oldest observatories in the world, the Beijing Ancient Observatory grounds cover an area of 10,000 square meters ...

BEIHAI PARK Beihai Park is an imperial garden to the northwest of the Forbidden City. Built in the 10th century, it is amongst the largest of Chinese gardens, and contains numerous historically important structures, palaces and temples. Prior to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 this area was connected to the Forbidden City, but since 1925 has been open to the public ...

BEIJING OPERA Peking opera or Beijing opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century. The form was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China ...

BOTANICAL GARDEN OF BEIJING The Beijing Botanical Garden is a botanical garden situated in the northwestern outskirts of Beijing, China between Xiangshan (Fragrant Hills) Park and Jade Spring Mountain in the Western Hills. The Beijing Botanical Garden was established in 1955. There are several Buddhist temples located within the botanic gardens ...

BEIJING CHAOYANG PARK Beijing Chaoyang Park is a park located on the site of the former Prince's Palace in Beijing's Chaoyang District. The park's construction began in 1984 with it eventually growing to become Beijing's largest park. It has a total area of 288.7 hectares, and a water surface area of 68.2 hectares. The majority of land in the park is used as green space ...

FORBIDDEN CITY The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost five hundred years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government ...

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), and colloquially described as The Egg, is an opera house in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seats 5,452 people in three halls. It was designed by French architect Paul Andreu ...

BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM Beijing National Stadium, also known officially as the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, is a stadium in Beijing. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The eastern and western stands of Beijing National Stadium are higher than northern and southern stands, in order to improve sightlines...

SHICHAHAI Shichahai is an historic scenic area consisting of three lakes in the north of central Beijing in China. They are located to the north-west of the Forbidden City and north-west of the Beihai Lake. Shichahai consists of the following three lakes: Qianhai, Xihai and Houhai. In imperial times it was called the Riverbank ...

TEMPLE OF HEAVEN The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship ...

TIANANMEN SQUARE Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heaven's Pacification) located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the second largest city square in the world. It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history ...

TIANNING TEMPLE The Tianning Temple is located in the Guang'anmen district of Beijing. The temple contains the 12th-century Pagoda of Tianning Temple. The pagoda is a Liao Dynasty pagoda built from around 1100 to 1119 or 1120 CE, shortly before the Liao Dynasty was conquered by Song and Jin. This thirteen story octagonal-based Chinese pagoda is made of brick and stone ...

WANGFUJING ROAD Wangfujing, located in Dongcheng District, Beijing, is one of the Chinese capital's most famous shopping streets. Much of the road is off-limits to cars and other motor vehicles, and it is not rare to see the entire street full of people. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty there have been commercial activities in this place ...

ZHOUKOUDIAN Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave system in Beijing, China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris. Peking Man lived in this cave approximately 750,000 to 200,000 years ago ...

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