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Tiananmen, Gate of Heavenly Peace, Beijing

Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Palace Museum, Beijing

China - East Asia, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Asia, Beijing

Wumen (Meridian Gate) of the Forbidden City located in the north and it is the next gate after the Duanmen Gate

Entrance to the forbidden city in Beijing, China. Lot's of tourists meeting in front of the temple.

Beijing, Beijing, China - August 8, 2014: The Pagoda of the Summer Palace of Beijing

Landscape of the Summer Palace in Beijing

Gray, foggy and polluted day at the North-East corner tower outside the Forbidden City in central Beijing.

ancient royal palaces of the Forbidden City in Beijing,China

Summer landscape of Temple of Heaven park in China

Beijing, China - Jan 9 2020: Wumen (Meridian Gate) of the Forbidden City located in the north and it is the next gate after the Duanmen Gate

Beijing, China- November 7, 2020: The Tiananmen Square is the geographic center of Beijing and the heart of China. Here is the Tiananmen Gatetower.

Xian, Shanxi, China - August 26, 2014: The City Wall of Xian in China

The Forbidden City, Beijing, China. The entrance to the Forbidden City with a sign saying 'Meridian Gate'. View from outside the Forbidden City.

$he Forbidden City was constructed from 1406 to 1420, and was the former Chinese imperial palace and winter residence of the Emperor of China from the Ming dynasty (since the Yongle Emperor) to the end of the Qing dynasty, between 1420 and 1924. The Forbidden City served as the home of Chinese emperors and their households and was the ceremonial and political center of the Chinese government for over 500 years. Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987.\nThe complex consists of 980 buildings, encompassing 8,886 rooms and covering 720,000 square metres (72 hectares)/178 acres. The palace exemplifies the opulence of the residences of the Chinese emperor and the traditional Chinese palatial architecture and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere.$

The Forbidden City in China China's building of Beijing the imperial palace

Beijing, China - Jan 9 2020: Dragon and clouds engraved on the main staircase to Taihedian (Hall of Supreme Harmony) in the Forbidden City

Beijing Tiananmen Gate at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China

The Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is a monumental gate in the centre of Beijing, widely used as a national symbol of China. First built during the Ming dynasty in 1420, Tiananmen was the entrance to the Imperial City, within which the Forbidden City was located

High View Dusk Scenery at the Palace Museum in Beijing, China

Beijing, China, people at the gates of the ancient Forbidden City palace complex during summer.

Outside of Forbidden city during and a bit after sunrise. Mostly Forbidden city is surrounded by moat and each corner is ancient watch tower.

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