Palace complex Forbidden City

Zǐjìnchéng, Zijincheng, Gùgōng, Gugong, Forbidden City
China, Beijing
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Palace complex Forbidden City

Zǐjìnchéng, Zijincheng, Gùgōng, Gugong, Forbidden City
China, Beijing
The Forbidden City is the largest palace complex in the world (961x753 meters, 720 thousand square meters), the main palace complex of Chinese emperors from the 15th to the beginning of the 20th century. It is located in the center of Beijing, north of the main Tiananmen Square and east of the lake district (the residence of the modern leaders of the country). The total area is 720 thousand square meters. m; The palace complex has 8707 rooms. Surrounded by a wall 3400 m long and a moat called "Golden Water". A million builders and 100 thousand other specialists took part in its construction - stone and wood carvers, artists, etc.

From here, the Celestial Empire was ruled by 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1987, it was the first of the Chinese sites to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
After the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, the vast collection of art objects collected by the Ming and Qing emperors (about 1.17 million items, according to an inventory carried out in 1925), passed into the hands of the republic. Based on them, on October 10, 1925, the appropriately named Gugong Boyuan Museum (Former Imperial Palace Museum), often known in other languages ​​as the Gugong Museum, was established in the former imperial palace.

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The Forbidden City of Gugong is the largest and most famous palace complex in the world. It served as the residence of twenty-four powerful rulers of two dynasties - Ming and Qing. The place for its construction was determined by astronomers and, in their opinion, it is located exactly in the center of the globe. Today, heading to the Forbidden City, you need to go through only three gates: Tiananmen, Duanmen and, finally, the main gate of the palace - Wumen. In former times, for foreign ambassadors and officials, the path to the palace was longer: they passed through five gates.
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