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Real Name: Joaquin
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Things To Do: The Citadel
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  • Written by SirRichard on Oct 17, 2003
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    • Hue - Walls and giant flag in The Citadel
  • Walls and giant flag in The Citadel
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    • The Citadel is the huge (10 km. perimeter) area located at the north of the Perfume River.
    You will access to it by one of the 2 bridges over the Perfume. If you pass by the southern one (Phu Xuan) you will be right in front of the "Forbidden Purple City", former Imperial Palace.
    Around this complex of buildings, pagodas and palaces there are many tree lined streets with many official buildings and museums. Is not a residential area.

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    Things To Do: Ngo Mon Gate
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    • Hue - The Entrance gate
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    • This is the main entrance to the Imperial Enclosure.
    Here is the ticket office and the only entrance to the palaces. From here the Emperor watched the Military Parades and talked to the people...

    Once you go through the tunnel, at your left you will find stairs to climb to the 1st floor. There you can see the huge gong, some nice pictures and the halls, which are correctly restored.

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    Things To Do: The Forbidden Purple City
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    • Hue - Imperial gowns
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    • Inside the Enclosure there are several highlights:

    - Thai Hoa Palace. The first pavillion U find after crossing the inner bridge. Well preserved, it was a reception hall.

    - Forbidden Purple City. The Palace itself. Almost totally destroyed during the Tet Offensive. Not much left to see...

    - The To Mieu Temple.

    - 9 Dynastic Urns. Huge copper urns.

    - Halls of the Mandarins, where they prepared for Court Ceremonies. There are temporary exhibitions now (see pic).

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    Things To Do: Halls of the Mandarins
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    • In this small pavillions at one side of the central courtyard you can see exhibitions with Imperial Court stuff, costumes, objects, photographs...
    The last Emperor of the Nguyen Dinasty (Bao Dai) addicated in 1945 to a delegation sent by the Provisional Revolutionary Government.
    Here you can see how was life in the Court in the 19 and 20 th centuries...

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    Things To Do: The nine dysnastic urns
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    • Hue - The huge urns
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    • These 9 2 meters high metal urns (about 2000 kgs each) were cast in 1835 to symbolise the Nguyen dinasty sovereigns.
    They depict nature designs (clouds, sun, moon...) upon ancient (2.000 BC) chinese designs.

    They can be found near the The To Mieu Temple, inside the Imperial Enclosure.

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    Things To Do: The Fine Arts Museum
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    • This beautiful building is located at the right of the Imperial Enclosure, inside the Citadel.
    It is not a real must in the city visit, but it is nice and interesting if you have some spare time. The building and the garden around it are outstanding. Inside there are many precious items, though the main part was lost during the War.

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    Address: 3 Le Truc
    Directions: As you go out of the Palace, turn left, then left again and the second right, after a shop in the corner that sells bird cages.
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    Comments for SirRichard about Hue
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    el_ruso Mon Dec 11, 2006 01:22 UTC
     Great info on this distant land. Hope to see it someday too :)    		roamer61 Tue Aug 10, 2004 00:45 UTC
     Great pages on Hue Joaguin. Looks like a fascinatingplace to see.
    acemj Mon Oct 27, 2003 14:32 UTC
     The Imperial Enclosure has some really interesting things to see. Well done.    		herzog63 Sat Oct 18, 2003 08:09 UTC
     Wow!! Everytime I see another of your new pages my mind just races!! You are a Real traveler!!! Fantastic page again Joaquin!!
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