FORBIDDEN CITY is present in the middle of Beijing, china. It was the best imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was the home of 24 emperors. It is known as GU GONG in Chinese. It is recognized as one of the world’s largest five palaces in the world. It was built between 1406 and 1420. Now it is called as palace museum. Now it is a public museum attracting the tourists from around the world. It has a long 500 years history.
It is rectangular in shape and covers 74 hectares of ground. It is surrounded by a ten meter high walls and six meters deep moat. At each side gates are present to the wall. The distance between the gates of east and west walls are 750 meters. Opposite the Tiananmen gate to the north is Divine might gate. The distance between these two gates walls are 960 meters. Towers are present on the four corners of the walls. The Forbidden City is divided in to two parts i.e; northern section and southern section. Northern section is also known as inner court where the emperor lived with his family. Southern section is also known as outer court where the emperor exercised his greatest power over the nation. There are 800 buildings that have 9000 rooms in total. Chinese government has invested a lot of money and time in the city. They used white marbles and decorated with paintings. So it creates and outstanding beauty. The opening hours are 8:30 to 4:20 from Oct 16 to Apr 16 and 8:30 to 5:00 from Apr 16 to Oct 15.
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