Beside the Shuǐguān Great Wall off the Badaling Hwy, the Commune was heralded as an architectural marvel when it opened in the early noughties. These days the dozen modernist villas, each designed by a different architect, are showing their age, and service standards have slipped since Kempinski hotel group parted ways with the project.
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Historically a strategic portal between the fertile lands of the capital and the more arid plains beyond, Badaling has been called the ‘Key to Northern…
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This sizeable museum blusters through a history of the Wall, from its origins as an earthen embankment in the far-off Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) to the Ming…
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The tomb of the Zhengde Emperor, who reigned from 1506–21. It's not open for visitors.
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