Tiananmen Square (Beijing) | 17th century construction, tourist attraction

China / Beijing / Peking / Beijing
 square, 17th century construction, tourist attraction
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the centre of Beijing, People's Republic of China. It is named after the Tiananmen gate, which is located to the north and separates the square from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the world's largest city square with a total area of 440,000 square metres (108.7 acres), measuring 880 metres north-south and 500 metres east-west. It has great cultural significance since it has been the site of several important events in Chinese history, such as the May Fourth Movement in 1919, the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, annual mass military displays on all subsequent National Days until 1959, the 1984 military parade for the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, the 50th Anniversary in 1999, and the 60th Anniversary in 2009, the Tiananmen incident in 1976, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The flatness of Tiananmen Square is contrasted by the Monument ot the People's Heroes and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.

Tiananmen Square was designed and built in 1651. The Great Ming Gate, later renamed Great Qing Gate and the Gate of China, stood near the centre of Tiananmen Square until the 1950s when it and a marketplace named Chessgrid Streets, located to the south of the gate, were demolished for the enlargement of the square. From November 1958 to August 1959, Tiananmen square underwent a major expansion to accommodate 500,000 persons. The Monument to the People's Heroes was erected on the square's souther edge. In 1977, the Mausoleum of Mao zedong was built near the former site of the Gate of China on the north-south axis of the square. In connection with the project, Tiananmen Square was expanded to its current size to accommodate 600,000 persons.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square
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Coordinates:   39°54'8"N   116°23'29"E

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