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Introducing Summer Palace
The Summer Palace is the largest and best-preserved royal garden in China and also in the World. It was first built in 1750 by Emperor Qianlong, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886. Constructed around the Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, Summer Palace is a vast complex of gardens, saraylar, göller, and hills. The landscaped gardens, tapınaklar, and pavilions were designed to achieve harmony with nature and to please the eye. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.

Summer Palace Fast Facts
• Çince Adı: Yi He Yuan 颐和园
• Ziyaret İçin En İyi Zaman: April, May, Eylül ve Ekim
• Tavsiye Edilen Ziyaret Saatleri: Saat 2 to 3 saat
• Çalışma Saatleri
Nisan 1 Ekim'e kadar 31: 8:30-17:00
Kasım 1 Mar'a 31: 9:00-16:00
• Giriş Ücreti
Nisan 1 Ekim'e kadar 31: 30 CNY
Kasım 1 Mar'a 31: CNY20
• Adres: Hayır. 19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District, Beijing

What to expect at Summer Palace

• Layout of the Summer Palace

The Summer Palace covers about 300 hektar. There are about four major scenic areas: the Western Gate zone, The Longevity Hill Front and Rear Zone, and Kunming Lake Zone.

In the easternmost is the Western Gate zone. This used to be the place where the Qing emperors did their political activities and lived. The zone covers the Ren Shou Dian (Hall of Benevolence and Longevity), where emperors received ministers; the south and north imperial houses; the bedrooms; the grand theatrical stage; and the courtyards. The Yu Lan Tang was the bedroom of Emperor Guang Xu and later became the place where he was imprisoned. Even today, then high walls with closed passages are still seen.

The Longevity Hill Front zone is the most extravagant. The whole scenic zone is linked by two symmetrical axes. The east-west axis is the famous Long Corridor; güney-kuzey ekseni, Uzun Koridor'un ortasından başlar, Pai Yun Adamları (Bulutlar Kapısı), Pai Yun Dian (Bulutlar Salonu), De Hui Dian (Hoşniyetli ve Şan Salonu) Fo Xiang Ge (Yanan Budist Tütsü Kulesi). Fo Xiang Ge parkın merkezidir, çevresindeki yapılar simetrik olarak dağıtılmıştır.

Kuzeydeki en kuzey tepe arkasındaki göl bölgesidir. Çok fazla yapı olmasa da, ormanlar ve ağaçlar lüks bir şekilde büyür, kıvrımlı tepe yolları var, tepe cephesinin gösterişiyle keskin bir tezat oluşturur. Bir grup Tibet tarzı yapı ve güney Çin'e özgü bir manzara, kompakt düzenlenmiş Suzhou Caddesi'ni oluşturur. Kunming Gölü'nün su yüzeyi parkın dörtte üçünü oluşturur. Teknelerle dolu dalgalı suyu, göl, Uzun Ömür Tepesi'ni görmek için en iyi yerdir, doğuya doğru açılan bir resim rulosu gibi. Göldeki, bir set vardır, Xi Di denen (Batı Seti), şeftali ve söğüt ağaçlarıyla çevrili ve farklı türlerde altı kemerli köprüye sahiptir. Su üzerindeki üç adada da farklı türlerde antik yapılar bulunmaktadır. 17 kemerli köprü gölün üzerinden geçer, ziyaretçilerin asla unutamayacağı bir manzara.

• Yaz Sarayı'ndaki Yapılar

Yaz Sarayı, Pekin'deki en iyi korunmuş imparatorluk bahçesidir. En iyi antik yapıları ve bahçe tarzlarını barındırır. Neredeyse geleneksel Çin bahçelerinin bir müzesidir.

Yaz Sarayı'ndaki ana yapı, Uzun Ömür Tepesi'nin tepesindeki Fo Xiang Ge'dir. Kule kare bir temel üzerine inşa edilmiştir 21 metre yüksekliğinde. Ayağa kalkar 40 meters high and has eight facades, three stories and four tiers of roofs. It represents the best of ancient Chinese architecture.

Verandahs and angled pavilions are featured in the gardens. The Long Corridor of the Summer Palace is about 728 metre uzunluğunda, the longest in the world. The painted beams bear more than 4,000 pictures about legendary stories or flowers, birds, fish and insects. On the eastern bank of KunmingLake is a double-eaved octagonal pavilion, the largest in China. Buna ek olarak, there is the beamless hall on the top of the Longevity Hill, which is built entirely of all bricks and stones, without any prop.

The casting and carving are of the highest quality in the world. The big cast iron bull on the eastern bank of Kunming Lake is very vivid, with inscriptions on the back. On the northern bank is a marble boat, with the beams and props exquisitely carved.

The Summer Palace has amassed the best of ancient Chinese architectural styles. In the east, halls and houses form enclosed courtyards linked to one another by corridors, a style derived from the courtyard houses of North China. In the south, an embankment lined with willow cuts through the lake, an imitation of the scenic West Lake in Hangzhou. On the north slope of the Longevity Hill do structures resemble Tibetan lamaseries and a shop-lined street named after Suzhou.

How to get to Summer Palace

Metro ile
• Metro Hattı'na binin 4 to Beigongmen Station (Çıkış C). Sonra, walk west for 3 minutes to the North Palace Gate.
• Take Metro Line to Bagou Station. Then take Western Suburban Line to Yiheyuanximen Station.
• Take Metro Line or Line 16 to Xiyuan Station (Exit C2). Walk west for about 15 minutes to the East Palace Gate.

Otobüsle
• To the East Palace Gate: Otobüs No. ile gidin. 303, 331, 332, 346, 508, 579, ya da 584, and get off at Yiheyuan Station; or take bus No. 384, 394, 563, 594 ya da 601 to Poshangcun Station.
• To the West Gate: Otobüs No. ile gidin. 469 ya da 539 and get off at Yiheyuan Ximen Station.
• To the North Palace Gate: Otobüs No. ile gidin. 303, 331, 346, 394, 563, 584, 594 or Singtseeing Bus Line 3, and get off at Yiheyuan Beigongmen Station.
• To the New Palace Gate: Otobüs No. ile gidin. 74, 374, ya da 437, and get off at Xinjian Gongmen Station.

Additional travel advice on Summer Palace
• The though ticket includes entrance fee for the Palace and fees for Dehe Garden (¥5), Wenchang Temple (¥20), Foxiang Pavilion (¥15) and Suzhou Street (¥10).
• It is not advised to play on the surface of Kungming Lake in winter.