Monument to the People’s Heroes
The Monument to the People's Heroes is a ten-story obelisk that was erected as a national monument of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monument
- Description: monument in Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Renmin Yingxiong Jinianbei”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and Zhengyangmen.
Forbidden City
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century. It today houses the Palace Museum, one of China's largest national museums, with an extensive collection based on the former imperial collection.
Zhengyangmen
City gate
Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.
Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall. The gate is situated to the south of Tiananmen Square and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City. Zhengyangmen is situated 440 metres south of Monument to the People’s Heroes.
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Theater building
The National Centre for the Performing Arts, colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, Beijing, China. National Centre for the Performing Arts is situated 680 metres west of Monument to the People’s Heroes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chongwen and Xicheng.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.
Central Dongcheng
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Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.
Monument to the People’s Heroes
- Categories: national monument and obelisk
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Monument to the People’s Heroes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نصب أبطال الشعب التذكاري”
- Basque: “Herriaren Heroien Aldeko Monumentua”
- Chinese: “人民英雄紀念碑”
- Chinese: “人民英雄纪念碑”
- Czech: “Památník Lidových hrdinů”
- Dutch: “Monument to the People’s Heroes”
- French: “monument aux Héros du Peuple”
- French: “Monument aux Héros du peuple”
- German: “Denkmal für die Helden des Volkes”
- Hebrew: “המונומנט לזכר גיבורי העם”
- Indonesian: “Monumen Pahlawan Rakyat”
- Italian: “Monumento agli eroi del popolo”
- Japanese: “人民英雄紀念碑”
- Korean: “인민영웅기념비”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monumentet for folkets helter”
- Norwegian: “Monumentet for folkets helter”
- Polish: “Pomnik Bohaterów Ludu”
- Portuguese: “Monumento aos Heróis do Povo”
- Romanian: “Monumentul eroilor poporului chinez”
- Russian: “Памятник народным героям”
- Serbian: “Споменик народним херојима (Пекинг)”
- Serbian: “Споменик народним херојима”
- Slovenian: “Spomenik ljudskim junakom, Peking”
- Spanish: “Monumento a los Heroes del Pueblo”
- Spanish: “Monumento a los Héroes del Pueblo”
- Swedish: “Monument över folkets hjältar”
- Thai: “อนุสาวรีย์วีรชน”
- Turkish: “Halk Kahramanları Anıtı”
- Urdu: “عوامی ہیروز کی یادگار”
- Welsh: “Cofeb i Arwyr y Bobl”
- Welsh: “y Gofeb i Arwyr y Bobl”
- Wu Chinese: “人民英雄紀念碑”
- Yue Chinese: “人民英雄紀念碑”
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