Pratu Chai

Nakhon Ratchasima Province


This south gate is the most intact and noteworthy of Phimai's three surviving 13th-century city gates (the east gate is in ruins), built by King Jayavarman VII, because it served the road to Angkor. The city wall was atop the mounded dirt ridge beside it.


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