The Summer Palace…

…of China’s indefatigable Empress Dowager Cixi

Prominently perched on a Longevity Hill, it is indisputably China’s
foremost Imperial Garden, and one of the world’s great regal
palaces. The Summer Palace is essentially a testimony to the
luxurious style of the feudal emperor, but decidedly represents an
apex in the development of Chinese landscape gardening in terms
of scale, layout, craftsmanship and artistic elegance.