BEIJING YIHEYUAN : UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
The Summer Palace (Yíhéyuán), is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing. It was an imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty. Mainly dominated by Longevity Hill (Wànshòu...
MING TOMBS : UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
The Ming tombs are a collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China. The majority of the Ming tombs are located in a cluster near...
BEIJING : THE FORBIDDEN CITY (PALACE MUSEUM)
The Forbidden City (Chinese: 故宫; pinyin: Gùgōng) is a palace complex in central Beijing, China. It houses the Palace Museum, and was the former Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty (the years 1420 to 1912). The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for almost 500 years. Constructed from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 72 hectares (over 180 acres). The palace exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world. 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. Part of the museum’s former collection is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War. Since 2012, the Forbidden City has seen an average of 15 million visitors annually, and received more than 16 million visitors in 2016 and 2017
THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA>LONGEST STRUCTURE
The Great Wall of China (Chinese: 萬里長城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng) is the collective name of a series of fortification systems generally built across the historical northern borders of China to protect and consolidate territories of Chinese states and empires against various nomadic groups of the steppe and their polities. This collection of fortifications known as the Great Wall of China.The Great Wall of China, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, it winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 21196 kilometers from east to west of China with a history of about 2700 years. It took more than 2,500 years to finish the construction of the Great Wall. The wall was not built in a single time period, but combined effort of many states and dynasties in history
BEIJING TIAN TAN – THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
The Temple of Heaven (Chinese: 天壇; pinyin: Tiāntán) is an imperial complex of religious 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 my favourite as well as a UNESCO World heritage site
TAJ MAHAL : AN ICON & A WORLD WONDER 1 – OVERVIEW
The Taj Mahal (Literally : ´´Crown of the Palace´´) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned...
VENICE : MY MOST FAVOURITE PLACE ON EARTH
VENICE - THE MOST AMAZING & SPECTACULAR PLACE ON EARTH & MY MOST FAVOURITE MAN MADE STATIC ICONIC WONDER - THERE IS ONLY ONE VENICE Venice (Italian : Venezia , Venetian : Venesia or Venexia)...
LANDWASSER VIADUCT : UNESCO WHS
THE LANDWASSER VIADUCT THE LANDWASSER VIADUCT THE LANDWASSER VIADUCT THE LANDWASSER VIADUCT Landwasser viaduct is my favourite Railway engineering.amazing !
VATICAN CITY-THE HOLIEST SITE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC : HOME OF THE POPE
The Vatican - The holiest site in Roman Catholic denomination of Christianity and home of the pope as well as the world´s smallest country (110 acres) ! The St. Peter´s...
THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS : PRESERVING AFTERLIFE (UNESCO WHS)
I like the terracotta warriors so much that I studied many aspects in great detail that I present below in an easily understandable format What is the Terracotta army ?...