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Beijing Garden Expo Park 北京园博园Běijīng Yuánbóyuán
4A scenic area · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Beijing Garden Expo Park
The site of the 2013 China International Garden Expo on the west bank of the Yongding River, built over a former construction-waste landfill and kept as a public park. It holds 69 exhibition gardens in regional, modern and international styles, a sunken flower valley made from an old waste pit, and the 69.7-metre Yongding Tower, a new pagoda in Liao–Jin style with views over the river.
How to get to Beijing Garden Expo Park
In Fengtai District, about 18 km west of Tiananmen; Garden Expo Park station on subway Line 14 is close to its southern gates.
Nearby
- Marco Polo Bridge 卢沟桥 under 10 km
An 800-year-old stone bridge lined with hundreds of carved lions, by a walled Ming fort - Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 10 km
Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn - Tanzhe Temple 潭柘寺 10 km
Terraced temple courtyards in the western hills, shaded by ancient ginkgos and cypresses - Summer Palace 颐和园 20 km
An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 20 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus
Also within 20 km: Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture 中国园林博物馆 (under 10 km), Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park 石景山游乐园 (under 10 km), Changxindian February 7th Strike Sites 长辛店二七大罢工旧址 (under 10 km), Beigong National Forest Park 北宫国家森林公园 (under 10 km), Zhengang Pagoda 镇岗塔 (under 10 km), Cheng'en Temple 承恩寺 (under 10 km).
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