The large park stretches from Tian'anmen Rostrum in the south to the Forbidden City moat, and from the East Thousand Bu Corridor before the Imperial Palace in the west to the eastern palace walls ...

Explore 500 years of China's imperial history at the Forbidden City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site once home to 24 Ming and Qing emperors.

arranged symmetrically and surrounded by a 10-metre high wall and a moat. It became known as ‘The Forbidden City’ as entry to it was forbidden to ordinary citizens, but nowadays it is visited ...