Forbidden City
The Meridian Gate (Wumen) from inside the Forbidden City courtyard, looking south toward Tiananmen Square, Beijing Municipality, China…
The Meridian Gate (Wumen) from inside the Forbidden City courtyard, looking south toward Tiananmen Square, Beijing Municipality, China…
The Forbidden City (Palace Museum) viewed from Coal Hill (Jingshan Park), Beijing. Built 1406–1420 under Emperor Yongle. Photo…
The Forbidden City (Palace Museum; Gùgōng; 故宫; “Former Palace”) from the south: the view across the southern approach…
A monumental system of fortifications spanning 13,170 miles across northern China, built over two millennia to defend against…
The Great Wall (Wanli Changcheng) at Mutianyu, following the ridge of the Yanshan Mountains, Huairou District, Beijing Municipality,…
The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling, Hebei Province. Ming dynasty reconstruction, 14th–17th century. Photo via Wikimedia Commons,…
Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan) at the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), Beijing, China (the most precisely vast single…
A complex of imperial Confucian buildings in Beijing where Ming and Qing emperors performed annual ceremonies. Its cosmological…
Imperial palace complex · 15th–20th century · Beijing, China The Beijing Palace Museum – Forbidden City The Forbidden…
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