Top 3 Places to visit in Beijing


Top 3 Places to visit in Beijing


1. Forbidden City (Palace Museum)

The Forbidden City, now known as the Palace Museum, is the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end Qing Dynasty and it is one of the world's great palaces. It is unarguable the most popular tourist attraction in Beijing. Ancient Chinese Astronomers believed that the Purple Star was in the center of heaven. The Palace for the emperor on earth was called the Purple City. It was forbidden to enter without special permission of the emperor. Hence its name 'The Purple Forbidden City'.


2. Great Wall in Beijing

In Beijing there are mainly eight sections of the Great Wall. The eight sections are Badaling, Juyongguan, Huanghuacheng, Jiankou, Matianyu, Gubeikou, Jinshanling, and Simatai. Badaling is the easiest site to access the Great Wall from Beijing, making it one of the most crowded. Most of the sections of the Great Wall in Beijing are well-preserved and mainly the relics dating from the Ming Dynasty, the time for huge construction.


3. Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square is the largest city square in the world. Lying in the heart if Beijing City, it is the place for massive parades and gathering. This was the place when in 1949, from a rostrum on Tiananmen, Chairman Mao announced the establishment of the People's Republic of China. There are 4 marble lions in from of the Tiananmen gate, the northwest one has a bullet hole on its stomach from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.




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