The Palace Museum

The Palace Museum is better known by the name of “Forbidden City”. This imperial palace was built on 72 hectares in the heart of Beijing in the 15th Century, protected by a wall. A city within a city, the Forbidden City is home to, according to legend, 9,999 rooms, arranged around an inner court and an outer court. Even just its gilding and its architecture listed by UNESCO merit a detour. Now a museum, this place also contains magnificent collections of bronzes, musical instruments, lacquerware, paintings and ceramics. The impressive Dragon Throne is one of its imperial treasures, testimony to China’s former civilization.