• The Forbidden City is called the Purple Forbidden City 紫禁城 (zǐjìnchéng) in Chinese. It is the home of the Palace Museum 故宫博物院 (gùgōng bówùyuàn).
  • The main gate of the Forbidden City is the 125-foot-tall Meridian Gate, a superstructure composed of five buildings, where the emperor issued imperial edicts.
  • Lying at the heart of the city, the Forbidden City – or, more accurately, the Imperial Palace – is Beijing’s finest monument.
  • The Forbidden City is an ancient palatial complex in Beijing, the capital of China, a city with over three thousand years of history.
  • The Forbidden City (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjìnchéng) is the imperial palace complex in the center of the Imperial City in Beijing, China.
  • Since 2012, the Forbidden City has seen an average of 15 million visitors annually, and received more than 16 million visitors in 2016 and 2017.
  • Welcome to The Forbidden City web site. The Forbidden City in Beijing was the Chinese imperial palace during the mid-Ming and the Qing Dynasties.
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  • The Forbidden City took 14 years to build (from 1406 to 1420) and was built by over 1,000,000 workers, including more than 100,000 craftsmen.