The Red-wall Teahouse is situated inside the People’s Cultural Palace which used to be the Ancestral Temple – a royal memorial temple for ancestors southeast to the Forbidden City. The palace ...

Walk along the Great Wall, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, stretching across mountains and valleys with breathtaking views. Explore the Forbidden City in Beijing, a vast complex that once ...

Elsewhere along the more than 13,000-mile wall, Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk and ... were welcomed inside the Forbidden City, the famous royal palace of ancient China that was home to two dozen emperors.

Previously-closed-off areas of the museum have reopened, and visitors can now also walk on top of much of the palace wall. The total open area in the Forbidden City is now up to 80%, compared to ...

Nov. 13, 2008 — -- Millions of people come to the Forbidden City every year ... of field projects at the World Monuments Fund. "The wallpaper was peeling off the wall. The silk was deteriorating.

Private All-Inclusive Day Tour: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Mutianyu Great Wall (1801 reviews) Beijing: Forbidden City & Tian’an Men Square Walking Tour (8 reviews) ...

Lhasa, the Forbidden City. Guarded by arid deserts ... This no doubt runs on top of a broad city wall, though the map does not say so. Within its circle is embraced much open ground, and three ...

It is inspired by the Ming Dynasty caisson ceiling in the Wanchun Pavilion of the Imperial Garden in the Forbidden City in Beijing. The caisson is a key element of Chinese wooden architecture.

But the eight-room Temple Hotel near the Forbidden City is a rare survivor ... from Melbourne to Stockholm, with a new book by Wallpaper’s Léa Teuscher Prada and Wong Kar-wai dream up a cinematic ...