Listed sites in Beijing 北京

Beijing 129 sites

• Grand Canal Scenic Area, Tongzhou 通州大运河 5A scenic area · National heritage site
  Tongzhou marks the northern end of the Grand Canal, and this scenic area follows about 12 km of the North Canal from the confluence of five rivers south to Gantang Bridge, with parks along both banks.
• Badachu 八大处 4A scenic area
  Badachu, the 'Eight Great Sites', is a hillside park in the Western Hills linking eight Buddhist temples and nunneries founded between the Sui and Qing dynasties on three hills.
• Baili Shanshui Gallery 百里山水画廊 4A scenic area · on the map
  A 371-square-kilometre scenic area covering the whole of Qianjiadian town in the hills of north-eastern Yanqing, matching the Qianjiadian area of the Yanqing Geopark and strung along a riverside road loop of about 56 km.
• Baqi Cave 八奇洞 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large limestone cave in the hills near Tanzhe Temple, hollowed out by an underground river, with a visitor route of about 1.35 km through big chambers and narrow passages.
• Beigong National Forest Park 北宫国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forest park in the low hills of western Fengtai, established in 2002 and approved as a national forest park in 2005.
• Beijing Aquarium 北京海洋馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large indoor aquarium opened in 1999 in the northern part of Beijing Zoo, run as a commercial attraction separate from the zoo.
• Beijing Auto Museum 北京汽车博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  A museum of the motor car opened in 2011 on the South 4th Ring Road, with some 80 vehicles across 13 exhibition areas covering the history, technology and future of the car.
• Beijing Garden Expo Park 北京园博园 4A scenic area
  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.
• Beijing Horticultural Expo Park 北京世园公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  The 503-hectare site of the 2019 International Horticultural Exposition at Yanqing, kept open and renamed Beijing Horticultural Expo Park in 2020.
• Beijing International Flower Port 北京国际鲜花港 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large flower park in Yangzhen, Shunyi District, best known as the venue of the Beijing Tulip Festival each April and early May.
• Beijing Planetarium 北京天文馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  China's first large planetarium, opened in 1957 opposite Beijing Zoo, with a domed star theatre in the original building and a glass-walled second building added in 2004.
• Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park 石景山游乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Opened in 1986 as one of Beijing's first amusement parks, this district-owned park mixes Chinese garden scenery with a fairy-tale castle.
• Beijing Wildlife Park 北京野生动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large forested safari park near Yufa in southern Daxing, opened in 2001, with a self-drive route through the big-animal and predator areas and walk-through zones for smaller species.
• Beijing World Park 北京世界公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A theme park opened in 1993 in south-western Fengtai District, laid out by continent with more than 100 scale models of famous buildings and monuments, most of them at one-tenth size.
• Beijing Zoo 北京动物园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Regarded as China's oldest public zoo, it grew out of the Qing government's agricultural experimental farm founded in 1906 and first opened to visitors in 1908.
• Capital Museum 首都博物馆 4A scenic area
  Beijing's municipal museum, founded in 1981 in the Confucius Temple and moved in 2006 to a large modern building on Chang'an Avenue designed by Cui Kai with Jean-Marie Duthilleul.
• Central Radio & TV Tower 中央广播电视塔 4A scenic area · on the map
  A 405-metre broadcasting and observation tower on Beijing's West Third Ring Road, completed in 1992 and opened to sightseers in 1994; it was the city's tallest structure until 2018.
• Chaoyang Park 朝阳公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Regarded as the largest park inside Beijing's 4th Ring Road, Chaoyang Park was developed from 1984 on the east side of the city.
• Chateau Changyu AFIP 张裕爱斐堡酒庄 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wine estate of the Changyu wine company in Jugezhuang town, built around a European-style castle with vineyards, a large underground cellar, a European-style village of shops and restaurants and a museum of Changyu's history since its founding in 1892.
• China National Botanical Garden 国家植物园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Formed in 2022 by joining the Beijing Botanical Garden with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' garden, the China National Botanical Garden has a planned area of nearly 600 hectares at the foot of the Western Hills, between Fragrant Hills and Jade Spring Hill.
• China Red Sandalwood Museum 中国紫檀博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  A private museum opened in 1999 by the entrepreneur Chen Lihua and devoted to zitan, a dense dark-red hardwood long used for fine Chinese furniture.
• Fenghuangling 凤凰岭 4A scenic area
  A scenic area of about 9.7 km² of rocky hills in north-west Haidian, named after a huge 'Fenghuangling' inscription carved on a cliff and nicknamed the 'Little Huangshan of western Beijing'.
• Gushan Village 谷山村 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain village in Miaofengshan town turned into a farming-culture park, with displays of old farm tools and machinery, a small farm, children's play areas and hands-on craft workshops.
• Han Meilin Art Museum 韩美林艺术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
  A museum devoted to Han Meilin, the artist best known for designing the Fuwa mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, opened in 2008 in Liyuan, Tongzhou.
• Happy Valley Beijing 北京欢乐谷 4A scenic area
  An amusement park opened in 2006 by the OCT group on the south-eastern side of the city, with dozens of rides, from big roller coasters and drop towers to gentle children's rides, spread over themed zones such as a Mayan jungle, an Aegean harbour and a Shangri-La area.
• Heilongtan (Black Dragon Pool), Miyun 黑龙潭 4A scenic area · on the map
  A narrow gorge about 4 km long north of Lupiguan in Shicheng town, where a stream drops through a chain of named pools and several waterfalls.
• Hongluo Temple 红螺寺 4A scenic area
  A large Buddhist temple at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain, by tradition founded in 338 and rebuilt many times, which became a leading centre of Pure Land Buddhism in northern China under the Qing masters Jixing and Yinguang.
• Huanghuacheng Lakeside Great Wall 黄花城水长城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A section of the Ming Great Wall at Xishuiyu in Jiuduhe town, where the wall runs down the hillsides into a reservoir so that parts of it lie under water, hence the name 'Lakeside' or 'Water' Great Wall.
• Jietai Temple 戒台寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A large Buddhist temple on the slopes of Ma'an Mountain in the Western Hills, known for its ordination altar, counted among the three great ordination platforms of Chinese Buddhism.
• Jingdong Grand Canyon 京东大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A narrow, steep-walled canyon near Yuzishan village in northern Pinggu, with a waterfall, a chain of pools and walkways fixed to the cliffs, ending at a small lake where boats can be hired.
• Jingshan Park 景山公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The former imperial garden directly north of the Forbidden City, centred on an artificial hill piled up in the early Ming from earth dug out for the palace moat and canals.
• Jinhai Lake 金海湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large reservoir in the hills of eastern Pinggu, formed by the Haizi dam built in 1959–1960 and enlarged until 1983, with hills on three sides.
• Juyong Pass 居庸关 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A Ming fortress pass in the Guangou valley north-west of Beijing, one of the 'three inner passes' that guarded the capital, where a walled garrison town with gated barbicans at both ends closes the valley and the Great Wall climbs steeply up the slopes on either side.
• Leduogang Holiday Plaza 乐多港假日广场 4A scenic area · on the map
  A modern leisure complex on the south-west edge of Changping town, combining a shopping and dining centre (now Leduogang Wanda Plaza), a Marriott resort hotel with a large hot-spring complex, and Karle Planet, a space-themed amusement park opened in 2022 on the site of an earlier theme park.
• Longtan Park 龙潭公园 4A scenic area
  A city park laid out around the eastern of the three Longtan lakes, dug in 1952 to drain marshy ground in south-east Beijing, and opened as Longtan Park in 1984.
• Ming City Wall Relics Park 明城墙遗址公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The longest surviving stretch of Beijing's Ming-dynasty inner city wall, about 1.5 km of rampart running east from Chongwenmen, ends at the Southeast Corner Tower, completed in 1439 and described as the largest and oldest city-wall corner tower surviving in China.
• Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture 中国园林博物馆 4A scenic area
  China's first national museum devoted to gardens, opened in 2013 at the foot of Yingshan hill beside the Garden Expo Park, with galleries on the history, techniques and culture of Chinese garden-making.
• Nangong Scenic Area 南宫旅游景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A resort area in Wangzuo town, south-western Fengtai, built around the geothermal water of Nangong village.
• Purple Bamboo Park 紫竹院公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Laid out from 1953 and named after the small Fuyin Zizhu Yuan temple inside it, Purple Bamboo Park covers about 47 hectares, a third of it water, with the Changhe River flowing through.
• Qinglong Gorge 青龙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded gorge north of Huairou town, dammed to form the Dashuiyu Reservoir, with Ming Great Wall watchtowers on the ridges above.
• Shenglian Mountain 圣莲山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A steep limestone mountain in the upper Dashi River valley, part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark, with karst peaks, arches, caves and springs.
• Shidu 十渡 4A scenic area
  A long valley where the Juma River has cut through the northern end of the Taihang Mountains, leaving limestone peaks and cliffs above the water; it is one of the largest karst landscapes in northern China and part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark.
• Shihua Cave 石花洞 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large limestone show cave on the Dashi River, the core of the Shihuadong National Geopark and part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark.
• Shilin Gorge 京东石林峡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A gorge in the hills of north-eastern Pinggu, named after the groups of rock pinnacles that rise from its slopes, with clear pools, huge boulders and a waterfall that drops in several tiers.
• Shuiguan Great Wall (Badaling) 水关长城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A Ming-dynasty section on the eastern part of the Badaling wall, which climbs in a steep V up both sides of the Guangou valley where it was cut by the Beijing–Zhangjiakou railway.
• Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park 顺义奥林匹克水上公园 4A scenic area
  Built beside the Chaobai River for the rowing, canoeing and marathon swimming events of the 2008 Olympics, this venue is now a water-sports and leisure park.
• Taoranting Park 陶然亭公园 4A scenic area
  A large lake park laid out in 1952 on old kiln land in the south of the city, named after the Taoran Pavilion, a hall built in 1695 by the kiln supervisor Jiang Zao inside the older Cibei Nunnery and a favourite gathering place of Qing scholars.
• Temple of Earth 地坛 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Built in 1530, the Temple of Earth is where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the earth at the summer solstice, the northern counterpart of the Temple of Heaven.
• World Flower Garden 世界花卉大观园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A flower park and botanical garden just north of the South 4th Ring Road, with tropical and ornamental plants in large greenhouses and a series of themed outdoor gardens and plazas, some laid out in foreign styles such as a formal garden modelled on Versailles.
• Xianju Valley 仙居谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded valley by the Andamu River in Taishitun town, entered past a small mountain lake, with streams, pools and waterfalls along two trails: a gentler one past three linked falls and a steeper, rougher route to caves, a rock gate and a cherry-blossom valley.
• Xiaotangshan Agricultural Science Park 小汤山现代农业科技示范园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large modern-agriculture demonstration park in the Xiaotangshan area of Changping, showing greenhouse growing, seedling breeding and flower and fruit production, and run partly as a family day out.
• Yaji Mountain 丫髻山 4A scenic area
  A hill in Liujiadian town named after its two rocky summits, which resemble a girl's twin hair buns, and long a Taoist pilgrimage site whose temple fairs drew crowds from the capital and visits from Qing emperors.
• Yanqi Lake 雁栖湖 4A scenic area
  A reservoir in the hills north of Huairou town, built in 1959–1962, whose shores were developed into the conference area that hosted the 2014 APEC leaders' meeting and the first two Belt and Road Forums.
• Yeya Lake National Wetland Park 野鸭湖国家湿地公园 4A scenic area
  A national wetland park of reservoir shallows, rivers, reed beds and marsh on the south-western edge of Yanqing, the largest wetland in the Beijing area and part of a municipal nature reserve.
• Yinshan Pagoda Forest 银山塔林 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A group of eighteen Buddhist pagodas in the hills of Yanshou town, the tomb pagodas of monks from temples that flourished below the dark cliffs of 'Iron Wall, Silver Mountain' from the Jin dynasty onwards.
• Yunju Temple 云居寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A Buddhist temple at the foot of Shijing Shan ('Stone Sutra Mountain'), famous for the Buddhist scriptures that monks carved on thousands of stone slabs from the Sui dynasty to the Ming, begun by the monk Jingwan to protect the texts from destruction.
• Yuyuantan Park 玉渊潭公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  The largest park inside Beijing's Third Ring Road, covering about 137 hectares, 61 of them water, between the ring road and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
• Zhongshan Park 中山公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Just west of Tian'anmen, Zhongshan Park grew out of the Altar of Land and Grain (Shejitan), where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the gods of soil and harvest; its square marble altar is still spread with earth in five colours for the five directions.
• Anhui Guild Hall 安徽会馆 National heritage site · on the map
  Regarded as the largest of Beijing's old provincial guild halls, it was built in 1871 with money from Li Hongzhang and other officers of the Huai Army.
• Asbury Church (Chongwenmen Church) 亚斯立堂 National heritage site
  Founded in 1870 by American Methodist Episcopal missionaries, Asbury Church is usually described as the oldest Protestant church in Beijing; the present grey-brick building in an eclectic style was rebuilt in 1902–04 after the earlier church was burnt in 1900.
• Bailin Temple 柏林寺 National heritage site
  Founded in 1347 and rebuilt in the Ming, Bailin Temple was given a major overhaul in 1713 by Prince Yinzhen, the future Yongzheng Emperor, for his father the Kangxi Emperor's 60th birthday, and was counted among the eight great temples inside the old city.
• Baoguo Temple 报国寺 National heritage site
  A large temple of the southern city, rebuilt in 1466 as Ciren Temple and renamed in 1754, where the scholar Gu Yanwu lodged in 1668 and a shrine to him was added in the 1840s; it was the city's best-known book market in the late Ming and early Qing.
• Beijing Ancient Observatory 古观象台 National heritage site
  Built in 1442 on a stretch of the old city wall, the Ancient Observatory was the imperial observatory of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
• Beijing Dongyue Temple 东岳庙 National heritage site
  A Taoist temple of the Zhengyi school founded in 1319 outside the old Chaoyang Gate and dedicated to the god of Mount Tai, the Great Deity of the Eastern Peak, then rebuilt and enlarged under the Ming and Qing.
• Beijing Lu Xun Museum 北京鲁迅博物馆 National heritage site
  The small courtyard house that the writer Lu Xun remodelled and lived in from 1924 to 1926, where he wrote Wild Grass and other works, kept with its furnishings including the tiny room he lived and wrote in, known as the 'tiger's tail'.
• Beijing railway station 北京站 National heritage site
  Opened in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings marking the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic, Beijing railway station was then the largest station in the country.
• Big Bell Temple 大钟寺 National heritage site
  Built in 1733 as the imperial Juesheng Temple, this Qing monastery took its popular name after the Yongle Bell, a huge bronze bell cast under the Ming Yongle Emperor, was moved here in 1743.
• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Nantang) 宣武门天主堂 National heritage site · on the map
  Beijing's oldest Catholic church site, begun in 1605 as a chapel at the residence of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and rebuilt as a church under Adam Schall von Bell in 1650.
• Changchun Temple 长椿寺 National heritage site · on the map
  A Buddhist temple founded in 1592 by order of the Wanli Emperor's mother and once among the most prosperous in the capital, later used as housing before its restoration in the early 2000s.
• Changxindian February 7th Strike Sites 长辛店二七大罢工旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  A group of sites in the old railway town of Changxindian linked to the strike of 7 February 1923 on the Beijing–Hankou railway, a workers' movement led by the early Chinese Communist Party.
• Cheng'en Temple 承恩寺 National heritage site
  Built in 1510–1513 for the Ming eunuch Wen Xiang on Moshikou's old caravan road, Cheng'en Temple keeps Ming halls, bell and drum towers flanking the Hall of Heavenly Kings with its murals, and four stone watchtowers at the corners of the compound.
• Church of the Saviour (Beitang) 西什库教堂 National heritage site
  Beijing's Catholic cathedral, founded in 1703 on land given by the Kangxi Emperor near the palace and moved here in 1887 when the Guangxu court wanted the old site, with its grey-stone Gothic façade completed in 1890.
• Cross Temple 十字寺遗址 National heritage site
  The ruins of a hillside temple that was Buddhist for most of its history but was used by Christians of the Church of the East during the Yuan dynasty, one of very few such places of worship known in China.
• Dagaoxuan Hall 大高玄殿 National heritage site · on the map
  A Ming and Qing imperial Taoist temple just north-west of the Forbidden City, where emperors worshipped the Three Pure Ones and the Jade Emperor.
• Dajue Temple 大觉寺 National heritage site
  A temple at the foot of Yangtai Mountain in the Western Hills, founded in 1068 under the Liao as Qingshui Yuan and given its present name when it was rebuilt in 1428.
• Deshengmen Arrow Tower 德胜门箭楼 National heritage site
  The archery tower of Deshengmen, the western of the two northern gates of the Ming inner city, added in 1436–39, its tall front pierced by rows of arrow slits.
• Early Buildings of Tsinghua University 清华大学早期建筑 National heritage site · on the map
  Twenty buildings from before 1935 survive in the western part of Tsinghua University's campus, alongside the Qing-era Tsinghua Garden whose Gongzi Ting hall predates the university.
• Fahai Temple 法海寺 National heritage site
  Built between 1439 and 1443 with funds raised by a Ming court eunuch, Fahai Temple is known for the murals in its main hall, painted in the 1440s by court and local artists and among the oldest and best-preserved wall paintings in Beijing.
• Fayuan Temple 法源寺 National heritage site
  Regarded as the oldest surviving Buddhist temple in Beijing's old city, it was founded in the Tang dynasty in memory of soldiers killed in the Korean campaigns of the 640s and rebuilt many times since.
• Former National Library of Peiping 北平图书馆旧址 National heritage site
  The library building opened in 1931 for the National Library of Peiping, paid for with returned Boxer Indemnity funds and designed by V. Leth-Moller, with a Chinese palace-style exterior over an interior fitted with the most modern equipment of its day.
• Former National Mongolian and Tibetan School 国立蒙藏学校旧址 National heritage site
  A Qing nobleman's mansion near Xidan that became a school for Mongolian and Tibetan students in 1913, where Li Dazhao and others carried out political work in the 1920s and, in 1924, Mongolian students including Ulanhu formed the Communist Party's first branch among an ethnic minority.
• Former Residence of Li Dazhao 李大钊故居 National heritage site
  The small courtyard house where Li Dazhao, a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, lived with his family from 1920 to 1924, the years in which he set up a Marxist study society and the early Communist group in Beijing.
• Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling 宋庆龄故居 National heritage site
  The Beijing home from 1963 until her death in 1981 of Soong Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat-sen and later Honorary President of the PRC, set in the former garden of Prince Chun's Mansion, the estate where the last emperor Puyi was born.
• Guangji Temple 广济寺 National heritage site
  A working Buddhist temple and headquarters of the Buddhist Association of China since 1953, rebuilt in the 1450s on a Jin-dynasty site and named Hongci Guangji Temple in 1466.
• Guo Moruo Residence 郭沫若故居 National heritage site
  The courtyard home where the writer, historian and senior cultural official Guo Moruo lived from 1963 until his death in 1978, on a site that once belonged to Prince Gong's Mansion and later served as the Mongolian embassy and as a residence of Soong Ching-ling.
• Guyaju Caves 古崖居 National heritage site
  A group of 117 cave dwellings with some 350 rooms cut into the cliffs of a side valley west of Yanqing, found in 1984 and still of uncertain age and origin; the most common view links them to the Xi people of the Tang to Five Dynasties period.
• Haotian Pagoda 昊天塔 National heritage site
  A five-storey octagonal brick pagoda in pavilion style on a low hill on the east side of Liangxiang, the only pagoda of this type in Beijing.
• Holy Saviour's Cathedral 中华圣公会救主堂 National heritage site · on the map
  The former Anglican cathedral of North China, built in 1907 on a cross-shaped plan that mixes a European church layout with grey brick walls, Chinese tiled roofs and pavilion-like towers.
• Huguang Guild Hall 湖广会馆 National heritage site
  A guild hall for officials from Hunan and Hubei, built in 1807 and given its galleried opera theatre in 1830, where Sun Yat-sen spoke at the founding meeting of the Kuomintang in August 1912.
• Imperial Ancestral Temple 太庙 National heritage site
  Built in 1420 together with the Forbidden City, the Imperial Ancestral Temple is where Ming and Qing emperors honoured their ancestors, in three great halls set one behind the other within triple walls.
• Imperial Historical Archives (Huangshicheng) 皇史宬 National heritage site
  Built in 1534–36, the Huangshicheng was the imperial archive of the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the court kept its official chronicles, imperial instructions and the genealogies of the imperial clan.
• Jiaozhuanghu Tunnel Warfare Site 焦庄户地道战遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  During the Second Sino-Japanese War the villagers of Jiaozhuanghu dug tunnels linking houses and neighbouring villages into a network some 23 li (about 11.5 km) long, with traps, firing holes hidden in millstones and pigsties, and secret entrances in kitchen stoves and wells.
• Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs 金陵 National heritage site
  The burial ground of the Jin dynasty emperors, laid out below Jiulong Mountain after the Jurchen court moved its capital to Zhongdu (Beijing) in the 1150s, and the earliest imperial cemetery in the Beijing area.
• Jin Zhongdu Water Gate Site 金中都水关遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  The excavated foundations of a water gate that let a river pass under the southern wall of Zhongdu, the Jin dynasty capital that stood in what is now south-western Beijing.
• Lingyue Temple 灵岳寺 National heritage site · on the map
  A remote Buddhist temple on Baitie Mountain above Zhaitang, first built in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt on a large scale under the Yuan; its main hall keeps a Yuan-period roof frame and bracket sets, rare in the Beijing area.
• Liulihe Bridge 琉璃河大桥 National heritage site
  A Ming stone arch bridge over the Liuli River on the old main road south from Beijing, ordered by the Yongle Emperor in 1418 and rebuilt in 1539–1546.
• Liulihe Yan Capital Site 琉璃河遗址 National heritage site
  The site of the capital of Yan, a vassal state of the Western Zhou dynasty, founded about 3,000 years ago and the earliest known city in the Beijing area.
• Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Park 辛亥滦州起义纪念园 National heritage site
  A memorial built in 1936–37 by the general Feng Yuxiang for those killed in the Luanzhou Uprising of January 1912, a failed revolt against the Qing in which he took part.
• Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum 梅兰芳纪念馆 National heritage site
  The courtyard house where Mei Lanfang, the Peking opera star often credited with first taking the art abroad, with tours to Japan and in 1930 to North America, spent his last decade from 1951 to 1961.
• Niujie Mosque 牛街礼拜寺 National heritage site
  Regarded as Beijing's oldest and largest mosque, it is the centre of the Muslim neighbourhood along Niujie (Ox Street); it is said to have been founded in 996 under the Liao, was rebuilt in 1443 and enlarged in 1696.
• Pagoda of Cishou Temple 慈寿寺塔 National heritage site
  A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 50 m tall, built in 1576 by the Wanli Emperor for his mother, Empress Dowager Cisheng; the temple around it burned down in the late Qing, leaving the pagoda standing alone.
• Pagoda of Monk Wansong 万松老人塔 National heritage site
  A slender nine-tier brick pagoda at the mouth of Zhuanta Hutong, first built as the Yuan-era tomb pagoda of the Chan master Wansong Xingxiu (1166–1246) and raised from seven to nine tiers in 1753.
• Pagoda of Tianning Temple 天宁寺塔 National heritage site
  A solid octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers from the Liao dynasty, dated to 1119 by a stele found in its top during repairs in 1992, which confirmed the earlier dating by the architectural historians Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin.
• Peking Legation Quarter (Dongjiaominxiang) 东交民巷 National heritage site
  From 1861 foreign legations clustered along this lane east of Tiananmen Square, and after the siege of 1900 it became a walled, foreign-run Legation Quarter with its own banks, barracks and churches.
• Pudu Temple 普度寺 National heritage site
  Raised on a high brick terrace in the lanes east of the Forbidden City, Pudu Temple stands on the site of the mansion of Dorgon, the Manchu prince-regent of the early Qing, which was turned into a temple to the Tibetan Buddhist protector deity Mahakala in 1694.
• Qinglongqiao Station, Jingzhang Railway 京张铁路青龙桥站 National heritage site
  The historic station at the heart of the protected Nankou–Badaling section of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou (Jingzhang) railway, the first major line designed and built by Chinese engineers (1905–1909), under Zhan Tianyou.
• Red Building of Peking University 北京大学红楼 National heritage site
  Completed in 1918 as the main building of Peking University, this red-brick block was a centre of the New Culture and May Fourth movements: Li Dazhao ran the university library here, and the young Mao Zedong worked in it as a library assistant in 1918–19.
• Ritan Park (Altar of the Sun) 日坛 National heritage site
  The altar where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the sun at the spring equinox, built in 1530 when the Jiajing Emperor gave the sun and moon separate altars.
• Shangzhai Culture Museum 上宅文化陈列馆 National heritage site · on the map
  A site museum for the Shangzhai culture, a Neolithic culture of about 7,500 to 6,000 years ago excavated at Shangzhai village in 1985–1987 and the earliest Neolithic culture found in the Beijing area with signs of early farming.
• St. Joseph's Church, Beijing 王府井天主堂 National heritage site
  Known as the East Church (Dongtang), this Catholic parish was founded in 1653 by the Jesuit missionaries Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães on land granted by the Shunzhi Emperor, and the present Romanesque Revival building dates from 1904.
• Temple of Agriculture 先农坛 National heritage site
  The altar complex where Ming and Qing emperors worshipped the god of agriculture and ploughed a ceremonial field each spring, founded in 1420 opposite the Temple of Heaven on the city's southern axis.
• Temple of Ancient Monarchs 历代帝王庙 National heritage site
  The temple where Ming and Qing emperors offered sacrifices to China's legendary sage-kings and earlier rulers, built in 1530–31 under the Jiajing Emperor and later enlarged by the Qing until 188 rulers were honoured.
• Temple of the Moon 月坛 National heritage site
  The altar where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the moon at the autumn equinox, built in 1530 as the western counterpart of the Temple of the Sun.
• Tuancheng Fortress 团城演武厅 National heritage site
  Built in the late 1740s for the Qianlong Emperor's Jianrui Brigade, an elite unit trained to storm stone watchtowers like those it met in the Jinchuan campaigns, this is the only Qing military review ground left in Beijing.
• Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave 万佛堂、孔水洞 National heritage site
  A Buddhist site above a karst spring cave, founded as a temple in the Tang dynasty: a Ming-rebuilt brick hall stands on a platform over the mouth of the Kongshui Cave, and inside it is a long Tang marble relief of Manjushri and Samantabhadra with a host of bodhisattvas.
• Wanshou Temple 万寿寺 National heritage site
  Founded in 1577 under the Wanli Emperor to store Buddhist scriptures, Wanshou Temple became an imperial temple and was enlarged under the Qing into a complex of temple halls, a travelling palace and gardens.
• Wen Tianxiang Temple 文天祥祠 National heritage site
  A small shrine to Wen Tianxiang, the Southern Song chief minister who was captured by the Yuan, held in Dadu (today's Beijing) and executed in 1283 after refusing to serve the new dynasty.
• White Cloud Temple 白云观 National heritage site
  The leading monastery of the Quanzhen school of Taoism, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt around the tomb of the Quanzhen patriarch Qiu Chuji, who travelled to meet Genghis Khan in 1222.
• White Dagoba of Miaoying Temple 妙应寺白塔 National heritage site
  A huge whitewashed Tibetan-style stupa built between 1271 and 1279 for Kublai Khan under the Nepalese craftsman Araniko, regarded as the oldest and largest of its kind in China.
• Xihuang Temple 西黄寺 National heritage site
  A Tibetan Buddhist temple built in the early 1650s to house the Fifth Dalai Lama on his visit to the Qing court, and since 1987 the seat of the High-Level Tibetan Buddhist College of China.
• Xijiaominxiang Historic Bank Buildings 西交民巷近代银行建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
  A row of late Qing and Republican-era bank buildings on the lane west of Tiananmen Square, once Beijing's banking street, including the former Hubu (Da Qing) Bank, the classical-columned Baoshang Bank and the domed clock tower of the Continental Bank of 1924.
• Yanyuan Campus of Peking University 北京大学燕园 National heritage site · on the map
  Built in the 1920s for Yenching University on former Qing princely gardens, to a plan by the American architect Henry Murphy, this has been Peking University's main campus since 1952.
• Yao Guangxiao's Tomb Pagoda 姚广孝墓塔 National heritage site
  The tomb pagoda of Yao Guangxiao (1335–1418), the Buddhist monk who advised the future Yongle Emperor during his seizure of the throne and later helped compile the Yongle Encyclopedia.
• Yuan Dadu City Wall Ruins Park 元大都城垣遗址公园 National heritage site
  A narrow park about 9 km long that follows the surviving earth ramparts of the western and northern walls of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital built between 1267 and 1276, known locally as Tucheng ('earth wall').
• Zhalan Cemetery (Tomb of Matteo Ricci) 利玛窦和外国传教士墓地 National heritage site
  Regarded as the oldest Christian cemetery in China, it was granted by the Wanli Emperor in 1610–11 for the burial of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, and later Jesuit scholars of the imperial court were also laid to rest here.
• Zhengang Pagoda 镇岗塔 National heritage site
  A solid brick 'flower pagoda' about 18 metres tall on a hillock east of Yungang village, thought from its style to date from the Jin dynasty.
• Zhenjue Temple 真觉寺 National heritage site
  Better known as the Five Pagoda Temple, Zhenjue Temple keeps one of China's earliest surviving 'diamond throne' stupas, completed in 1473 and inspired by the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya: a 7.7-metre stone platform carved with rows of Buddhas, with a chamber and stairs inside and five small pagodas on top.
• Zhihua Temple 智化寺 National heritage site
  Founded in 1443 by the powerful eunuch Wang Zhen, Zhihua Temple keeps one of the most complete groups of Ming-dynasty wooden buildings in central Beijing, roofed in unusual black glazed tiles.
• Zhizhu Temple 智珠寺 National heritage site
  A Tibetan Buddhist temple of the Qianlong era, Zhizhu Temple stands beside the larger Songzhu Temple in the lanes east of Jingshan Park.