Once celebrated as the "Garden of Gardens", the Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace) was the grandest imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Covering 350 hectares in Beijing's Haidian district, just next to the Summer Palace, this extraordinary royal retreat combined magnificent palaces, tranquil lakes, elegant pavilions, and beautifully landscaped gardens into one of the world's greatest masterpieces of landscape design.
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