Forbidden City
This enormous imperial palace has 9,999 rooms and was home to Chinese emperors for nearly 500 years — ordinary people were forbidden from entering, which is how it got its name.
Beijing is one of the most ancient and powerful cities on Earth, sitting at the heart of China for more than seven centuries as the country’s capital. It is a city where history feels alive around every corner — where enormous imperial palaces and sacred temples stand side by side with bustling modern streets. The moment you arrive, you sense that this place has stories stretching back thousands of years.
The Forbidden City alone is enough to make your jaw drop. Imagine a palace so vast it contains nearly ten thousand rooms, once so sacred that ordinary people were banned from even setting foot inside. Beyond its walls, emperors prayed for good harvests at the stunning Temple of Heaven, escaped summer heat in the gorgeous lakeside Summer Palace, and built one of humanity’s greatest ever structures snaking across the mountains just outside the city.
Beijing is grand, proud, and full of wonder — a place where the ancient world and the modern one collide in the most spectacular way.
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Beijing has been China's capital for over 700 years and is home to the world's largest palace complex, the Forbidden City.
The Great Wall of China is so long that if you laid it out straight, it could stretch from London all the way past Tokyo — and Beijing is your gateway to one of its most beautiful sections!
This enormous imperial palace has 9,999 rooms and was home to Chinese emperors for nearly 500 years — ordinary people were forbidden from entering, which is how it got its name.
Snaking across mountains like a stone dragon, the Great Wall near Beijing is one of the greatest building achievements in all of human history.
Emperors once came to this circular blue-roofed temple every year to pray for a good harvest, and its perfect geometric design still amazes visitors today.
This gorgeous royal garden with a huge lake, elegant bridges, and beautifully painted walkways was where emperors escaped the summer heat.
One of the largest public squares in the world, Tiananmen Square sits at the very heart of Beijing and is a symbol of the whole country.
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