Potala Palace Square is the highest city square in the world, where many important events in Lhasa are held. Standing in the square looking up at the Potala Palace, you can better appreciate its majestic and sacred side.
If the daytime square gives you a shock, the night view here lets you see its slightly softer side. Lights of the Palace of the special flavor, the square of the musical fountain is also quite moody, there are many people with the music dance together.
The Potala Palace Square is located directly across from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, and is the highest city square in the world. This square is also an important part of the Potala Palace, a world cultural heritage site, an important activity place for the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the city of Lhasa, and one of the tourist attractions where Chinese and foreign tourists focus their sightseeing, a modern square integrating leisure, culture, assembly and other multi-functions. Next to the Medicine King Mountain Observation Deck can shoot the Bugong in the 50 yuan RMB.
Potala Palace information
Potala Palace, located in the capital of China's *** Autonomous Region *** City, northwest of the Maburi Hill, is the world's highest altitude, set the palace, the castle and the monastery in one of the magnificent buildings, but also *** the most massive, the most complete ancient palace fortress complex. Potala Palace mountain base, overlapping buildings, halls, majestic, is an outstanding representative of Tibetan-style ancient architecture, the essence of the Chinese nation's ancient architecture. Palace is more than 200 meters high, the appearance of 13 layers, 9 layers. Potala Palace initially for the tubo dynasty zanpu songtsen gampo for the marriage of ruler zun princess and princess wencheng and construction. 1645 years after the qing dynasty vassal state and shuo te khan state period of the protection of the king of the solid khans and gelu regent sonam group pei reconstruction of the potala palace, become the successive generations of * * * lama winter palace residence, as well as the major religious and political ceremonies held in the place, but also for the past generations of * * * lama spirit tower place. In March 1961, the state council listed it as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units; in December 1994, UNESCO listed it as the world cultural heritage; in January 2013, the national tourism administration and listed it as the national 5A level tourist attractions. Potala Palace was built in the 7th century AD Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo period has been 1300 years of history.
Where is the Potala Palace?
The Potala Palace is located on Marburi Hill, northwest of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
The whole palace is in Tibetan style, more than 200 meters high, with an appearance of 13 floors, but actually only 9 floors. Because it was built on the mountainside, a large area of the stone wall and stand as a cut wall, so that the building seems to be integrated with the hillock, majestic.
The Potala Palace was built in the 7th century A.D. and has a history of 1,300 years.
Geography:
The east and west sides of the main building of the Potala Palace extend downward respectively to meet the tall palace wall.
The palace wall is 6 meters high, 4.4 meters wide at the base and 2.8 meters wide at the top, built with rammed earth masonry and outsourced with masonry. The east, south and west sides of the wall each have a three-story gate tower, and there is also a corner tower in the southeast and northwest corners. Palace wall surrounded by the scope of all belong to the Potala Palace. Palace wall in front of the mountain part called "snow city".
Lhasa Tourist Attractions Ranking Top Ten
Lhasa Tourist Attractions Ranking Top Ten is introduced as follows:
1, Potala Palace
Potala Palace was built in the 8th century during the period of Songtsen Gampo, is a landmark building in Tibet, and is the world's highest elevation of the palace in the hearts of the local people have a very important position.
2, Dazhao Temple
Dazhao Temple, a Tibetan Buddhist temple, in the hearts of Tibetans its status is no less than the Potala Palace, the daily temple incense.
3, Namucuo
Namucuo is the world's highest altitude of large lakes, is also one of the three sacred lakes in Tibet.
4, Drepung Monastery
Drepung Monastery, Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa one of the three major temples, but also the world's largest temple, the entire monastery is magnificent, lined with white buildings spread all over the hillside, looking like a huge pile of rice, so the name Drepung.
5, small Zhaosi
Small Zhaosi, its fame and scale compared with the big Zhaosi much lower, but also quite suitable for playing. In the Princess of Wencheng laid the foundation stone built, the architectural style of the integration of Chinese and Tibetan architectural features, so it is also a symbol of the unity of the Chinese and Tibetan peoples.
6, Barkhor Street
Barkhor Street, also known as Barkhor Street, has a history of more than 1,300 years, is Lhasa's famous transits and commercial centers, and still retains the traditional appearance of the old city of Lhasa and the way of living.
7, Potala Palace Plaza
Potala Palace Plaza is located in the Potala Palace across the street, which is comparable to Tiananmen Square, the square and the Palace is directly across from the monument, the monument in front of the monument in summer there will be a fountain show, the evening is the city of Lhasa to spend the summer heat of a good place to go.
8, Luobulinka
Luobulinka Tibetan for "baby park", known as Lhasa's Summer Palace, is the largest man-made gardens in Tibet, the most monuments, the most distinctive gardens.
9, Gandan Temple
Also known as the Kadam Temple, located at an altitude of 3800 meters of the Wang Bozhi mountain, Wang Bozhi mountain is like a crouching elephant, carrying a full depression, the scale of the huge complex. The temple stands alongside the mountain, overlapping buildings, majestic, is the yellow religion of the six temples in the most special status of a temple.
10, Lalu wetland
is the world's highest, the largest area of urban inland natural wetlands, known as the "lungs of Lhasa", is also one of the most beautiful urban wetland park. Lalu wetland total area of more than 12 square kilometers, more than 90% of the area is covered by swamp meadow vegetation, shallow water in the wetlands, reeds, clumps, swaying in the wind. Tibet is the world's largest black-necked crane wintering and breeding place, and in the Lhalu Wetland, you can see a large flock of black-necked cranes in the Lhalu Wetland and other river valleys to feed.