Ming Tombs & the Sacred Way — Beijing's Imperial Necropolis
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Ming Tombs & the Sacred Way — Beijing's Imperial Necropolis

The Ming Tombs (明十三陵 — Míng Shísān Líng — 'Ming Thirteen Mausoleums', in the Changping district 50 km north of Beijing — the burial site of 13 of the 16 Ming dynasty emperors (1368-1644), UNESCO World Heritage since 2003 as part of the 'Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties'): the Ming Tombs complex (covering approximately 120 km² in a horseshoe-shaped valley enclosed by mountains on three sides — the ideal fengshui (风水 — Chinese geomancy) landscape for an imperial necropolis) contains the most extensive surviving collection of Ming dynasty funerary architecture in China.

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