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3 unusual facts about Summer Palace


Beigongmen Station

The station provides close access to the North Gate of the Summer Palace.

Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao

The allegation that he had acquired a vast fortune by the plunder of the Peking Summer Palace seems to have been without foundation.

Willsmere

In fact, they are much nearer the length of Beijing's Summer Palace which contains the longest corridor in Chinese garden architecture (780 metres).


Cai Wenji

Her return was the subject of the painting Cai Wenji Returns to Her Homeland (文姬歸漢圖) by Zhang Yu, which is now stored in the Long Corridor in the Summer Palace in Beijing.

Hao Lei

Hao first gained international prominence as Yu Hong, the heroine in Lou Ye's 2006 film about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Summer Palace.


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Agustín Fernando Muñoz, 1st Duke of Riánsares

When on 13 August 1836 the soldiers on duty at the summer palace La Granja mutinied and forced the regent to grant a constitution, it was generally, though wrongly, believed that they overcame her reluctance by seizing Muñoz, whom they called her guapo, or fancy man, and threatening to shoot him.

Barberini Faun

A gilded copy is included among many other replicas of classical sculptures that adorn the grand cascade that descends from the back of Peter the Great's summer palace, Peterhof, outside of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan

When Shidebala stayed at Nanpo on his way from the summer palace Shangdu to the capital Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty, Shidibala and Bayiju were assassinated by Tegshi, who attacked Shidibala's Ordo with Asud guards and other soldiers under him.

Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein

Johann created two memorials to himself, a palace in Bankgasse in Vienna and a summer palace in Rossau.

Maria Luisa of Spain

Maria Louisa was born in Portici, in Campania, the site of the summer palace (Reggia di Portici) of her parents, King Charles, King of Naples and Sicily and Maria Amalia of Saxony.

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

En el Generalife (In the Generalife): The first gardens are in the Generalife, the jasmine-scented gardens surrounding the summer palace of the king’s harem at the Alhambra.

Petrópolis

On a visit to the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, Pedro II was impressed by Alexander Graham Bell's new invention, the telephone, and had a line connecting his Summer Palace to his farm headquarters.

Sabbioneta

The church and the summer palace contain frescoes by artists of the Campi family of Cremona.

Saints Constantine and Helena, Bulgaria

Constantine and Helena, the Euxinograd royal summer palace, park and winery, and the Sofia University Botanical Garden, also known as Ecopark Varna.

Summer Palace Dialogue

In 2010 Lou Jiwei, the chairman of the China Investment Corporation and an economist at the Summer Palace Dialogue, said that China should sell its U.S. dollars and diversify its foreign currency holdings if the United States continues its loose monetary policy.

Tatoi Palace

Tatoi, located 5 km north of Athens's suburbs, and 27 km from the Athenian Acropolis was the summer palace and 10,000 acre estate of the former Greek Royal Family, and the birthplace of George II of the Hellenes.