Sixty-Year-Old Gate
Sixty-Year-Old Gate is a building in Beijing, North China. Sixty-Year-Old Gate is situated nearby to the ruins Seventy-Year-Old Gate, as well as near the garden Chinese Rose Guarden.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and National Natural History Museum of China.
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Photo: ijsendoorn, CC BY 2.0.
The Temple of Heaven is a complex of imperial religious Confucian buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and then later restored by the Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for a good harvest and other seasonal rites. Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is situated 180 metres northeast of Sixty-Year-Old Gate.
National Natural History Museum of China
Museum
Photo: 钉钉, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Natural History Museum of China, previously the Beijing Museum of Natural History, is a municipal public natural history museum in Dongcheng, Beijing, China. National Natural History Museum of China is situated 1 km west of Sixty-Year-Old Gate.
Yongdingmen
Photo: Kallgan, Public domain.
Yongdingmen was the former front gate of the outer city of Beijing's old city wall. Originally built in 1553 during Ming Dynasty, it was torn down in the 1950s to make way for the new road system in Beijing. Yongdingmen is situated 1½ km southwest of Sixty-Year-Old Gate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiyuguanlu and Chongwen.
Tiyuguanlu
Suburb
Tiyuguanlu Subdistrict is a southeastern subdistrict of the Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. In 2020 the population here is 31,977. This subdistrict got its name from the Tiyuguan Road within the subdistrict, which in turn was named after the Beijing Gymnasium.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Tianqiao
Suburb
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tianqiao Subdistrict is a subdistrict on the southeastern portion of Xicheng District, Beijing, China. As of 2020, it has a total population of 34,427.
Sixty-Year-Old Gate
- Opening hours:
April—October: 8:00 AM—6:00 PM
November—March: 8:00 AM—5:00 PM - Type: Building
- Category: historic site
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.88095° or 39° 52′ 51″ northLongitude
116.40538° or 116° 24′ 19″ eastOpen location code
8PFRVCJ4+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 558652058OpenStreetMap feature
building=gateOpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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In Other Languages
“Sixty-Year-Old Gate” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “花甲门”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Seventy-Year-Old Gate and Chinese Rose Guarden.
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