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Otherwise known as the Forbidden City Palace Museum, was built in 1406-1412.

It was the Imperial palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) for 24 emperors.

It has 10,000 rooms containing over a million rare cultural artifacts.

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• The Temple of Heaven
• The Summer Palace
• The Great Wall
• The Ming Tombs
  
  

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