Does anyone here know what the Summer Palace in Beijing China is? Let’s just say if it were not for the even more gigantic and unfathomably humungeous Great Wall, the Summer Palace would be much more known worldwide. In a couple sentences: The Summer Palace covers 2.9 sq kilometers, which is huge. (75%+ is a lake. Although it is important to note that the lake is man-made, and the earth dug-up to make the whole that the lake now fills, was used to make a mountain.) The rest is, or was, a spectacular array of gardens, pagodas, palaces and such.
So what is the big deal? The French and British destroyed most all of the Summer Palace nearly 150 years ago, and the Chinese are now undertaking the task of rebuilding it. I bet they will skip the lake this time around. Now they are not rebuilding the original, they are rebuilding a replica (as exact as they can) in a different location. I can’t tell which is more spectacular. Check out the following two articles for more. Thought this little piece of news was kinda fun.
http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=6047
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/19/content_7630722.htm
Below is a link to a Wikipedia article on the Summer Palace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Palace
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