Beijing

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Beijing

5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Beijing.

UNESCO sites in Beijing

• Beijing Central Axis: A Building Ensemble Exhibiting the Ideal Order of the Chinese CapitalCultural · 2024 · 0 km

  Running north to south through the heart of historical Beijing, the Central Axis consists of former imperial palaces and gardens, sacrificial structures, and ceremonial and public buildings. Together they bear testimony …

• Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and ShenyangCultural · 1987 · 1 km

  Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings (whose nearly 10,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art), constitutes a price…

• Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in BeijingCultural · 1998 · 3 km

  The Temple of Heaven, founded in the first half of the 15th century, is a dignified complex of fine cult buildings set in gardens and surrounded by historic pine woods. In its overall layout and that of its individual bu…

• The Grand CanalCultural · 2014 · 4 km

  The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China, running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. Constructed in sections from the 5th century BC onw…

• Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in BeijingCultural · 1998 · 15 km

  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 lan…