country. China
year of inscription. 1998
criteria. Cultural
This WHS is located in the municipality of Beijing. The complex was first built as a royal site in 1750 CE. After it was almost completely destroyed in an 1860 CE war, it was rebuilt on its original foundations in 1886 CE, and renamed the Summer Palace. It has since become celebrated for being a masterpiece of Chinese landscape design. Incorporating Kunming Lake and Longevity Hill as the natural framework, administrative halls, palaces, temples, pavilions, and bridges, many linked by roofed corridors, are set amidst a landscape of lakes and hills. It has had a profound influence on Oriental landscaping art.
what. stamp (China, 1979)
what. postcard (China, 2012)
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