Still remaining its form of City under Middle Age and the constructions of monarchic, a invaluable museum of Vietnam, this is Imperial City - the last remaining section of 19th-century Hue, and it is now a modern experiment in recreating traditional Vietnam. The Imperial City was recognized as a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO on December 1993. Let’s take a trip through the most important historical and cultural monument of Vietnam.
Dominating
the skyline is the 37m (120ft) high Cot Co or Flag Tower, first erected in
1809. Cot Co achieved international renown on the morning of 31 January 1968,
when communist forces seized the Citadel and ran their yellow-starred banner up
its tall mast.
The lower
part of the gate is stone, while on top is the "Belvedere of the Five
Phoenixes" where the emperor appeared on important occasions, and where
the last emperor abdicated to Ho Chi Minh's Revolutionary Government in 1945.
Just inside
the gate is a lotus pond with a bridge once reserved for the emperor's private
use. Across the bridge is the Thai Hoa Palace used for official receptions and
other important court ceremonies. The columns supporting the roof are lacquered
and inlaid with gold.
Thai Hoa
Palace
Behind the Thai Hoa Palace are a pair of smaller halls used by mandarins to prepare for court ceremonies. The halls form a courtyard, the fourth side of which was once a wall dividing the more public area of the citadel from the emperor's private residence, the "Forbidden Purple City." The name conjures up images of grand palaces like Beijing. Unfortunately, it takes quite a bit of imagination to picture the buildings that once occupied what is now a grassy expanse. What wasn't destroyed by a fire in 1947 was bombed in the 1968 Tet Offensive. The picture at above left was taken from the upper-most level looking back at the Thai Hoa palace and the Flag tower.
Off to one
side of the central axis of the forbidden city, about midway, is the Thai
Binh Lau or Royal Library. This small building stands in a garden
and is fronted by small pond mostly taken up by a mountain-island well-grown
with moss and bonsai. You will find similar ponds, fountains or even large
bowls of water in many structures all over Vietnam.
Although
you must enter the citadel through the main gate, you can exit it at several
other points. Between the Thai Hoa palace and the halls of the mandarins, a
path leads to the Hien Nhon gate (left). Leaving by this gate is the
shortest route to get from the forbidden city to the museum at Long An
palace. Along the path are a couple of buildings
worth a look.
A visit to Hue might be considered incomplete without a boat trip on the outstandingly lovely Perfume River. Boats are readily available for hire, either for an exploratory trip in the vicinity of Hue, or for a longer journey upstream to the tombs of Minh Mang and Gia Long.
Perfume River
It's hard
to explain the uncanny beauty of the river, though doubtless
the iridescent, aquamarine waters, together with the profusion of
colourful craft and boat women sporting non la--the ubiquitous
cream-coloured conical hat of Vietnam--all contribute to the effect. On a
clear, sunny day the Perfume River can indeed be magical.
It is recommended that visitors coming to Hue joining a day tour around the city to make sure they fully enjoy visiting all the attractions this lovely city has to offer while understanding more about a colorful period in Vietnamese history. Aside from the classic Hue city tours that cover the tombstones and mausoleum, the Huong river and other popular attractions in the city, tourists can also choose some other less typical tours such as food tours, day tours to handicraft villages or Tam Giang Lagoon. There are day tours to DMZ area in Quang Tri starting from Hue city as well. Those who want to check out the detailed itineraries for these day tours can take a look at these tours provided by Visavietnam.net.vn
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