Final+Project++The+Forbidden+City

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Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty.  It is located in Beijing, China, but nowadays it used with Museum. The city served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government. The city is a complex of de buildings, that consists of 980 buildings with 8,707 rooms. It has 720,000 seven m2 of areas. These buildings are exemplifies traditional architecture and culture Chinese, that influenced many aspect of Asia continent.The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987. It has largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.Also it has an extensive collection of artwork and artifacts that were built during Ming and Qing dynasties. The Forbidden City is a rectangle that measured 961 meters (3,153 ft) from north to south and 753 meters (2,470 ft) from east to west.The main characteristic of Forbidden City is that surrounded by ramparts. These walls served as both defensive walls and retaining walls for the palace. These ramparts were built using three layers of baked bricks, and use the mortar. Each side of rampart (north, south, east and west) has a door of entry, and each door has five arches, that allow access to the Forbidden City. The centre arch is Imperial Way, this Way is of stone and extends from the North door to the south door, and Only the Emperor may walk or ride on the Imperial Way For construction of Forbidden City was used stone, that it was quarried CORRIDT from Fangshan, a suburb of Beijing, also was used Huge amounts of timber and other materials, that were freighted from faraway provinces.  The stone is use for decorate floor, build stairs and create artwork. The columns that hold roofs of yellow roof tiles are wood, painted of red color

Nowadays the Imperial Palace became in a museum, due all extensive collection of artwork and artifacts And this is open to tourists from home and abroad. The Forbidden City has been accessed for 122.000 tourists, but its maximum capacity is 60.000. It is why it is a limited entry of tourists during the last years. This is because that has been eroding the soil and weakening the color of the wooden columns.