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Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
| Site number: | 703 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 1703-1792 | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1994 | |
| Location: | Asia, China, Hebei Province, Chengde City | |
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| Description: | The Mountain Resort was the Qing dynasty's summer palace, is located in Hebei Province, and was built between 1703 and 1792. It is an immense arrangement of palaces and administrative and ceremonial buildings. Its temples with their range of architectural styles and its imperial gardens are harmoniously fused into a landscape of lakes, pastureland and forests. The Mountain Resort holds aesthetic interest, and is a rare historic remnant of the China’s final development of feudal society. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | |
| The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng; literally: Mountain Resort for Avoiding the Heat; Manchu: Halhūn be jailara gurung) or Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng, the Qing Dynasty's summer palace) situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei Province, China, is the world's largest existing imperial garden. Built between 1703 and 1792, the Mountain Resort took 89 years to complete. It covers a total area of 5.6 km², almost half of Chengde's urban area. It is a vast complex of palaces and administrative and ceremonial buildings. Temples of various architectural styles and imperial gardens blend harmoniously into a landscape of lakes, pastureland and forests. In addition to its aesthetic interest, the Mountain Resort is a rare historic vestige of the final development of feudal society in China. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/703 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |