HERITAGE RECORD · 880

Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing

北京皇家园林-颐和园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 – is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ4132 ↗

Area297 ha

Administrative areaQ393454

WikipediaSummer Palace ↗

Chinese Wikipedia颐和园 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

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