Zhengyangmen Gate (Beijing)
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This gate complex is also known as Qianmen ("Front Gate").
The Zhengyangmen is a gate in Beijing which stands at the south end of the Tiananmen Square precinct. It is formerly the front gate of the Imperial City. It was first built in 1419. It consists of a gatehouse and an archery tower. At 42 metres high, the gatehouse is the tallest among all of the gates in Beijing. After the communist victory in 1949, the gate complex was occupied by the Beijing garrison of the People's Liberation army, who vacated the gate in 1980.
The Zhengyangmen is a gate in Beijing which stands at the south end of the Tiananmen Square precinct. It is formerly the front gate of the Imperial City. It was first built in 1419. It consists of a gatehouse and an archery tower. At 42 metres high, the gatehouse is the tallest among all of the gates in Beijing. After the communist victory in 1949, the gate complex was occupied by the Beijing garrison of the People's Liberation army, who vacated the gate in 1980.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengyangmen
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Coordinates: 39°53'56"N 116°23'29"E
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- Entrance to the Dongjiang Bonded Customs Area 154 km
- Great wall Gateway 275 km
- Gateway 302 km
- South Gate 329 km
- East Gate 424 km
- Smart Gate 480 km
- Terminales gate 482 km
- Terminales gate 483 km
- East Gate of Olympic Stadium 903 km
- Tiananmen Square 0.4 km
- Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) Park 1.2 km
- Nanhai (Southern sea) 1.5 km
- Beijing Friendship Hospital 1.8 km
- Zhongnanhai 1.9 km
- Xidan Shopping District 2.3 km
- Tiantan Park (Temple of Heaven) 2.4 km
- Site of the temple of Agriculture (Xiannongtan) 2.6 km
- Beijing Tiantan Hospital 2.7 km
- Taoranting Park 3.2 km