Sunday 26 December 2010

Hanoi Citadel

Ancient City is located in a fairly large campus, west Hoang Dieu ward, eastward, Nguyen Tri Phuong, Tran Phu Street south, the northern limit by Phan Dinh Phung street, Ba Dinh District.
In 1010, King Ly Thai To moved his capital from Hoa Lu to Thang Long, the court was built and expanded in the next monarch. Thang Long was planning a "hub fortresses" with three rounds of nested. Forbidden City, or the Long Phuong Ly - Tran in the end, the palace area. Citadel in the mid-market economic encase the people in the east. Outermost band is La La formation or the University. In 1805, the Nguyen Dynasty built the Hanoi area was retained as the Forbidden City in the provision for the king travel north every week. French, when out of Hanoi, the French do well to keep this area commander of the military establishment.
In ancient structures left over after the French out of Hanoi, from south to north include the following items: flag tower, the door Doan Mon, the electric glass Thien Hau Lau and North Mon doors.
Doan Mon door is the only building preserved in general, including a two-storey gazebo, on the eighth floor roof, the entrance includes a large opening in the door. Above the main entrance, south side of the "Doan Mon. Currently Doan Mon relatively intact.
Athletics Thien, electricity was out in 1886 for building the artillery commander (French Army). We just left the platform with two rows of stone balustrades stone dragon in the middle, two rows of carved stone balustrades two parties in the south, the north also has a dragon decorative stone steps. Thien Tam level in athletics at the men have all 10 levels, seven places in the north is due to the large stone composite.
Miss Lau, also known as Princess Floor, built of brick, the bottom of the box, on a three-story buildings. Floor under a roof three floors, two floors above the roof.
North Gate, is two trapezoid shape that is triangular, arched his heart of brick, stone embankment edge of the rectangle, decorated valances on the stone lotus. North door sign Han wrote "The North Mon. Besides the well attached to a carved stone plaque dated 25-4-1882 howitzer ammunition and two traces - traces of the war with France. Gate remains, on the gazebo at the city gates were affected out. The city has again to restore the gazebo looks imposing, mature is its capital.
In the monuments on the scale but not great architecture, but along with the relics lie below ground evidence of a political center, the capital of the country for almost thousand years of history.
In the south of the ancient city of Hanoi, remains part of the architecture of the first universities in Vietnam: Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam start up in early XI century during the Ly dynasty.

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