Old Summer Palace (chn)

Old Summer Palace

Old Summer Palace ranks 8,276th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind São Miguel do Iguaçu, Wedding (Berlin), and Husum. Memorable people born in Old Summer Palace include Xianfeng Emperor, and Jiaqing Emperor. Memorable people who died in Old Summer Palace include Yongzheng Emperor, and Daoguang Emperor. Old Summer Palace has been the birth place of many politicians and the death place of many politicians. Old Summer Palace is located in China.

The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan or Yuanmingyuan Park, originally called the Imperial Gardens, and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, Beijing, China. It is 8 kilometres (5 mi) north-west of the walls of the former Imperial City section of Beijing. Widely perceived as the pinnacle work of Chinese imperial garden and palace design, the Old Summer Palace was known for its extensive collection of gardens, its building architecture and numerous art and historical treasures. Constructed throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Old Summer Palace was the main imperial residence of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty and his successors, and where they handled state affairs; the Forbidden City was used for formal ceremonies. The Garden was reputed as the "Garden of Gardens" in its heyday was "arguably the greatest concentration of historic treasures in the world, dating and representing a full 5,000 years of an ancient civilization", according to Robert McGee, chaplain to the British forces. Read more on Wikipedia