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The External kitchen prepared the palace banquets, feasts, and sacrificial rites. The Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, the Summer Palace, and the Imperial Palace for Short Stays in Jihol also had ...

The Imperial Dwelling Palace (Chengde Ligong ... The park is twice the size of Beijing's Summer Palace (Yiheyuan), eight times larger than Beihai Park and larger even than the Yuanmingyuan ...

Operating under the official title of "The Palace Museum," the Forbidden City (also known as the Imperial Palace) has been a place of wonder and mystery for more than 500 years. This massive ...

The Summer Palace is China's largest imperial park and among the most noted classical gardens in the world. In 1998, it was listed as one of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. (Photo: Xinhua ...

The Mountain Resort (the Qing dynasty's summer palace), in Hebei Province, was built between 1703 and 1792. It is a vast complex of palaces and administrative and ceremonial buildings. Temples of ...

A street that crosses through the Imperial Palace in Tokyo will be open to the public for cherry blossom viewing for the first time in four years from March 25 to April 2, the Imperial Household ...

6. They are moving into the renovated Imperial Palace and, once the move is finished, they will start living there as of Sept. 15. But in the meantime, they will stay in another part of the palace.

You'd think the Imperial Palace would be mobbed with tourists, but it's not. You can credit the lack of crowds to an application policy, which limits the number of visitors. That's because the ...