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Tuancheng Fortress 团城演武厅Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng
National heritage site · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Tuancheng Fortress
Built in the late 1740s for the Qianlong Emperor's Jianrui Brigade, an elite unit trained to storm stone watchtowers like those it met in the Jinchuan campaigns, this is the only Qing military review ground left in Beijing. It comprises the oval walled Tuancheng with gate towers, the review hall where the emperor watched drills, a tall gate used for scaling-ladder practice and a stele pavilion, and it holds an exhibition on the brigade's history.
How to get to Tuancheng Fortress
About 1 km south-east of Fragrant Hills Park in Haidian District, roughly 18 km north-west of Tiananmen. Closed on Mondays (except public holidays).
Nearby
- Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 under 10 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn - Summer Palace 颐和园 under 10 km
An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 under 10 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus - Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 20 km
An 800-year-old stone bridge lined with hundreds of carved lions, by a walled Ming fort - Bird's Nest and Olympic Green 奥林匹克公园 20 km
The Bird's Nest and Water Cube, venues of the 2008 and 2022 Olympics, lit up after dark
Also within 20 km: China National Botanical Garden 国家植物园 (under 10 km), Badachu 八大处 (under 10 km), Fahai Temple 法海寺 (under 10 km), Cheng'en Temple 承恩寺 (under 10 km), Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park 石景山游乐园 (under 10 km), Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Park 辛亥滦州起义纪念园 (under 10 km).
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