Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan or Yuanmingyuan Park, originally called the Imperial Gardens, and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, , .
  • Park
  • …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (150 feet)
  • Opening hours: 7:00 AM–7:30 PM
  • Description: razed Qing-era complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing which were made up of three gardens
  • Address: 清华西路 28, 海淀区, 北京市 100084
  • Email: ymyyzxx@163.com
  • Also known as
    “Imperial Gardens”
    “Old Summer Palace Park”
    “Ruins of Yuanmingyuan”
    “Site of the Old Summer Palace”
    “Yuan Ming Yuan”
    “Yuanmingyuan Palace”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yuanmingyuan Park and University of International Relations.
station is a station on Line 4 of the Beijing Subway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yanyuan and Haidian.
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Haidian…
Town, sometimes referred to as Wanliu Area…
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Haidian…
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Latitude
40.00508° or 40° 0′ 18″ north
Longitude
116.29715° or 116° 17′ 50″ east
Open location code
8PGR274W+2V
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Old Summer Palace” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حديقة يوانمينغيوان”
  • Bulgarian: “Юанмингюан”
  • Catalan: “Antic Palau d’Estiu”
  • Catalan: “Jardins de la Perfecta Lluentor”
  • Catalan: “Jardins Imperials”
  • Cebuano: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Chinese: “Yuánmíngyuán”
  • Chinese: “北京圓明園”
  • Chinese: “圆明园”
  • Chinese: “圆明园遗址”
  • Chinese: “圆明园遗址公园”
  • Chinese: “圓明園”
  • Czech: “Starý letní palác”
  • Danish: “Det gamle kejserlige sommerpalads”
  • Dutch: “Old Summer Palace”
  • Dutch: “Oud Zomerpaleis”
  • Dutch: “Oude Zomerpaleis”
  • Esperanto: “Yuan Ming Yuan-Imperia Ĝardeno”
  • Esperanto: “Yuanming Palaco”
  • French: “Ancien Palais d’Été”
  • French: “Jardin Yuanming”
  • French: “L’ancien palais d’été”
  • French: “Vieux palais d’été”
  • French: “Yuanming yuan”
  • German: “Alter Sommerpalast”
  • German: “Yù Yuán”
  • German: “Yuanming Yuan”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון הקיץ הישן”
  • Indonesian: “Istana Musim Panas Lama”
  • Indonesian: “Yuan Ming Yuan”
  • Italian: “Antico Palazzo d’Estate”
  • Italian: “Old Summer Palace”
  • Italian: “Vecchio Palazzo d’Estate”
  • Italian: “Vecchio Palazzo Estivo”
  • Italian: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Japanese: “円明園”
  • Korean: “원명원”
  • Literary Chinese: “圓明園”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings gamle keiserlige sommerpalass”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalass i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalasset i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalasset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuang ming yuan”
  • Norwegian: “Beijings gamle keiserlige sommerpalass”
  • Persian: “کاخ تابستانی قدیمی”
  • Polish: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Portuguese: “Antigo Palácio de Verão”
  • Portuguese: “Yuánmíng Yuán”
  • Russian: “Парк Юаньминъюань”
  • Russian: “Старый летний дворец”
  • Russian: “Юаньминъюань”
  • Russian: “Юаньминюань”
  • Slovenian: “Ju Juan”
  • Slovenian: “Stara poletna palača, Peking”
  • Slovenian: “Stara poletna palača”
  • Slovenian: “Yu Yuan”
  • Spanish: “Antiguo Palacio de Verano”
  • Swedish: “Gamla sommarpalatset”
  • Swedish: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Tamil: “பழைய கோடைகால அரண்மனை”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังฤดูร้อนเดิม”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังฤดูร้อนแห่งเดิม”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังหยวนหมิงหยวน”
  • Thai: “หยวนหมิงหยวน”
  • Turkish: “Eski Yazlık Saray”
  • Ukrainian: “Старий Літній палац”
  • Urdu: “قدیم گرما محل”
  • Urdu: “قدیم گرمائی محل”
  • Vietnamese: “Viên Minh Viên”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Viên Minh”
  • Wu Chinese: “圆明园”
  • Yue Chinese: “圓明園”

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