Where is the Forbidden City that has been included in the World Heritage Site list?

The Forbidden City is a palace complex located in Beijing, China. The royal palace was commissioned by an emperor of the Ming dynasty in 1406 and it was officially occupied in 1420. It has 980 buildings, with about 999 rooms and covers nearly 180 acres. The entire compound was added to the World Heritage Site list by UNESCO in 1987.

It came to be called the Forbidden City because only a handful of people other than the emperor had permission to enter it. The Chinese emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasty used the palace as their winter residence.

The final inhabitant of the palace was the last emperor of imperial China, Puyi. He was expelled in 1925. This place had been a centre of Chinese power for five centuries. It still remains an important part of the cultural heritage of the People’s Republic of China.

Picture Credit : Google

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *