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Scenic spots near Gongwangfu

The scenic spots near Gongwangfu are: Tiantan Park, Yuanmingyuan, Olympic Park, Summer Palace and Badaling Great Wall.

1. Temple of Heaven Park

The Temple of Heaven is located on the east side of Yongdingmennei Street in Dongcheng District. It is a national 5A-level tourist scenic spot. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a place for emperors to worship the emperor and pray for a bumper harvest of grain. There are also echo walls, three-tone stones and dialogue stones skillfully built by using acoustic principles in the altar, which fully shows the developed level of architectural techniques in ancient China. It is also the largest altar complex preserved in China.

2. Yuanmingyuan

was once famous in the world for its grand geographical scale, exquisite architectural scenery, rich cultural collection and national cultural connotation, and was praised as "the model of all gardening arts" and "the garden of ten thousand gardens". Moreover, the Qing emperor came here every summer to spend the summer, listen to politics and handle military and political affairs, so it is also called "Summer Palace". When traveling to Beijing in summer, you must come and feel the charm here.

3. Olympic Park

This is a national 5A-level tourist scenic spot. The park is rich in forest resources, mainly trees and shrubs, with a green coverage rate of 95.61%. Moreover, there is a sunflower viewing area with the largest planting scale and the most complete varieties in Beijing. Every summer, a sunflower exhibition is held, and all kinds of sunflowers are competing to open. Every June to July, the Bird's Nest lighting and music show will be held. It can be said that there will be different highlights in each season.

4. The Summer Palace

It is a large-scale landscape garden based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, and based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, drawing on the design techniques of gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. It is also the most well-preserved royal palace, known as the "Royal Garden Museum". It was rated as a national 5A-level tourist attraction as early as 27, and was selected as the largest existing royal garden in China, world record association, China in 29.

5. Badaling Great Wall

This is a national 5A-level tourist attraction, located at the north entrance of Guangou Ancient Road, Jundushan, Yanqing District, Beijing. It is an important part of Wan Li Great Wall, a great defense project in ancient China, and a pass of the Ming Great Wall. It is called "Yuguan Natural Graben" and one of the eight scenic spots in Juyongguan in Ming Dynasty.

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