The Great Palace Gate, originally completed in 1725, was the largest and most ornate entrance into the Imperial Garden complex. The Gate, and the area surrounding the entrance, was one of the main ...

An exhibition marking the 600th anniversary of the completion of the construction of the Forbidden City opens in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo by JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY] Times change, but some cultural ...

The major Ottoman Empire-era landmark will be offering nighttime visits all summer for travelers looking to beat the heat and ...

Quaint Gubei is a far cry from China’s other tourist-stuffed water towns, and it’s just two hours from the capital ...

The discovery was made during the renovation of Hrvojeva Street at the heart of Split in Croatia, and the direct link was ...

Portugal’s Pena Palace boasts a mix of architectural styles. Another offspring of the Romantic movement that swept 19th-century Europe, Pena crowns a hilltop near Sintra, Portugal.

In the heart of modern Beijing is the world’s largest palace complex, big enough to hold 50 Buckingham Palaces and covering more than 7.75 million square feet. Known as the Forbidden City, it ...

Putin, 72, shares the secret Valdai palace retreat, some 230 miles northwest of the Kremlin, with alleged secret lover Kabaeva and their sons Ivan, ten, and Vladimir junior, six.

It is forbidden to stay long by the chapel's entrance and exit to not obstruct the hundreds of visitors entering and exiting the chapel at any given time, so guides advice that if one should take ...

Beijing is home to the largest palace in the world, known as the Forbidden City. This UNESCO World Heritage Site has played a crucial role in China’s history for over 500 years, serving as the royal ...

Several local travel operators and guides were also there. Crossing past the Lingxing Gate, we officially entered the “Little Forbidden Palace of Jiangnan”.