Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Former Site of Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing
The former site of the Academia Sinica's Institute of Astronomy, which moved in on 1 September 1934; a fourth-batch national site since 1996.
Mural guide
Ming Palace Site
A tall old brick wall opens in several arches beside a flagstone path, with whitewashed tree trunks and green planted beds along it and evergreen branches reaching in at right.
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