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Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
Built on sites inhabited since the Paleolithic era, the walls of Baku reflect the heritage of Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arab, Persian, Shirvan, Ottoman and Russian cultures. The Inner City (Icheri Sheher) retains much of its 12th-century defensive walls. The 12th-century Maiden's Tower (Giz Galasy) was built on earlier structures dating from the 7th-6th centuries BC, and the 15th-century Palace of the Shirvanshahs is one of the jewels of Azerbaijan's architecture.
Ming City Wall Ruins Park
The Ming City Wall was 40 kilometers long in history and was built in the 17th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1419 AD), with a history of more than 580 years. The existing wall ruins from Chongwen Gate to the southeast corner tower of the city are 1.5 kilometers long. They are part of the original inner city wall of Beijing, the only remaining section, and the symbol of Beijing. The southeast corner tower of the city is the largest corner tower of the city wall in the country. It was built in the first year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty (1436 AD) and is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park is located in the city center. The Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park starts from the southeast corner tower in the east and ends at Chongwen Gate in the west. The total area of the Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park is about 15.5 hectares. The city wall ruins and the southeast corner tower of the city occupy 3.3 hectares, and the green area of the Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park is 12.2 hectares. Due to years of disrepair and man-made damage, the city wall is seriously damaged. In order to protect the cultural heritage and reproduce the style of the ancient capital, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government conscientiously practiced the important thought of "Three Represents" and decided to thoroughly rectify the surrounding environment of the city wall ruins, repair the city wall, and build the Ming City Wall Ruins Park. The newly built Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins, with the protection of the city wall as the starting point and the purpose of showing the true appearance of the ancient city wall, provides citizens with a quiet, natural, simple and desolate environment. A closed lush green belt will be formed on the north side of the city wall, while the linear shape of the garden path and the configuration of plants on the south side of the city wall are simple and generous. The protection work of the city wall ruins is mainly based on the protection of the current situation and the reinforcement of risk elimination, supplemented by a small amount of gap filling, to preserve the original state of the city wall to the greatest extent. Standing under the city wall, a sense of historical solemnity and vicissitudes arises spontaneously.
Zhengding Rongguo Mansion
Rongguo Mansion was strictly designed and built according to the Chinese classic "Dream of Red Mansions". It is an antique building complex with Ming and Qing styles, divided into two parts: the mansion and the street. The entire project broke ground in December 1984 and was completed in July 1986. Rongguo Mansion is a feudal palace built according to the description of "Golden Gate, Jade House, Fairy House, Osmanthus Palace, and Imperial Concubine's Home" in "Dream of Red Mansions". It covers an area of 22,000 square meters, a construction area of 4,700 square meters, 212 rooms, and 102 corridors. The whole mansion is divided into three roads: the middle, east and west, each of which is a five-entry quadrangle: the middle road is Jia Zheng's official residence, which adopts solemn palace-style painting, and the east and west roads are inner courtyards, which adopt bright Su-style painting. The indoor floor-standing flower covers are elegant and magnificent, and the Ming and Qing-style furniture is exquisite and luxurious. There are 23 scenes, 150 characters; more than 1,600 antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which reproduce the magnificence of "a family of bells and drums, a family of poetry, books and calligraphy". The four-season flower pavilion in Yiyuan on the west side of the mansion is ancient and quaint, and the small bridges are winding and the mountains and rivers are complete, just like a small and unique Suzhou garden. The "Dream of Red Mansions Poetry, Painting and Stone Carving Exhibition" has been newly set up in the back enclosure, and more than 200 famous calligraphers including Qi Gong, Zhang Aiping, Huang Qi and Ouyang Zhongshi have been invited to write and splash ink. Some of them are inscribed by national leaders such as Huang Hua, Liao Hansheng, Wang Shoudao and Wang Renzhong.
The Palace Museum
The Forbidden City is 961 meters long from north to south and 753 meters wide from east to west. It is surrounded by 10-meter-high walls on all sides and a 52-meter-wide moat outside the city. It is truly as solid as a fortress. The Forbidden City has four gates: Wumen in the south, Shenwumen in the north, Donghuamen in the east, and Xihuamen in the west. There is a graceful corner tower at each of the four corners of the city wall. There is a saying among the people that it has nine beams, eighteen columns, and seventy-two ridges, which describes its complex structure. The buildings in the Forbidden City are divided into two parts: the outer court and the inner court. The center of the outer court is the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Central Harmony, and the Hall of Preserving Harmony, collectively known as the three major halls, which are where the country holds grand ceremonies. The left and right wings of the three major halls are supplemented by two groups of buildings, the Hall of Wenhua and the Hall of Wuying. The center of the inner court is the Palace of Heavenly Purity, the Hall of Jiaotai, and the Palace of Earthly Tranquility, collectively known as the three palaces behind, which are the main palaces where the emperor and the empress live. Behind them is the Imperial Garden. On both sides of the three palaces at the back are the East and West Six Palaces, which are where the concubines live and rest. On the east side of the East Six Palaces are Buddhist buildings such as the Tianqiong Palace, and on the west side of the West Six Palaces are Buddhist buildings such as the Zhongzheng Hall. In addition to the Outer Court and the Inner Court, there are two parts of buildings, the Outer East Road and the Outer West Road. In the southern part of the Outer East Road is the Xiefang Hall where the princes live, commonly known as the South Three Houses, and in the northern part is the Ningshou Palace, the palace of the retired emperor built by Emperor Qianlong. In the southern part of the Outer West Road are the Cining Palace and Shoukang Palace where the empress dowager lives. In the northern part, in addition to the Shou'an Palace where the empress dowager lives, there are also Buddhist buildings such as the Yinghua Hall.