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Xiang Shan
Park
Wofosi Lu • 6259 1155
• Bus: 331 from Summer
Palace or 634 from Xizhi
Men • Open 6am–6:30pm
daily • Adm (separate fee
for Azure Clouds Temple)
The wooded parkland
area, also known as
Fragrant Hills Park, is
2 miles (3 km) west of the
Summer Palace. It offers
Ruins at Yuanming Yuan (Old Summer Palace) fine views from Incense
Burner Peak, which is
Yuanming Yuan (Old
2 accessible by a chairlift (for a fee).
Summer Palace)
Close to the park’s main gate is the
28 Qinghua Xi Lu • 6262 8501 Azure Clouds Temple (Biyun Si),
• Subway: Yuanming Yuan Park guarded by the menacing deities
• Open 7am–7pm daily • Adm Heng and Ha in the Mountain Gate
The name Yuanming Yuan can be Hall. A series of halls leads to the
translated as “Garden of Perfect Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, where
Brightness.” This was the largest and the revolutionary leader’s coffin was
most elaborate of all the summer stored in 1925, before being taken to
palaces of the Qing era. It once con- his final resting place in Nanjing.
tained private imperial residences,
Great Bell Temple
pleasure pavilions, Buddhist temples, 4
a vast imperial ancestral shrine, and (Dazhong Temple)
canals and lakes for pleasure boating. MAP B1 • 31A Beisanhuan Xi Lu
The Qianlong emperor even added a • 6255 0819 • Subway: Dazhongsi
group of European-style palaces • Open 8:30am–9:30pm daily • Adm
designed by Jesuit missionary-artists This 18th-century temple follows
serving in the Qing court. Today, all a typical Buddhist plan, with a
that’s left are graceful ruins after the Heavenly Kings Hall, Main Hall,
complex was destroyed during the and a Guanyin Bodhisattva Hall.
Second Opium War (1856–60). A What distinguishes it, though, is the
small museum displays images massive bell – one of the world’s
and models of the place as it was. largest – housed in the rear tower.
The bell was cast between 1403 and
GREATER BEIJING 1424, and Buddhist sutras in Chinese
and Sanskrit cover its surface.
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