The largest square in the world.

mary25 (2)in #travel • 8 years ago

The largest square in the world is China's capital city square, Tiananmen square in Beijing is Heavenly Peace Square. Its length is 880 m, width 500 m, the total area of 440 thousand square meters.

For example: the area of one football field is 7 thousand 140 m. (105×68 m.), it turns out that Tiananmen square is equal to sixty football fields in size. It can accommodate approximately one million people at a time and is rightly the largest urban area in the world.

Such majestic size Tiananmen square acquired relatively recently (before the largest area in the world was now the largest square in Europe — the Cathedral square of the city of Samara) — 50 years ago: the ancient rulers of China though suffered from gigantomania (remember the army of terracotta warriors, the Great wall of China), still the main square of China, in the form that it now has, created at Mao Zedong. Tiananmen became the largest square in the world in 1958, when the government of the people's Republic of China was preparing to celebrate the decade of the revolution, this preparation also touched the main square of the country.

Tiananmen square is not only a favorite place for photographing and walking for tourists, the Chinese themselves are very fond of being photographed against the background of national symbols, run on the area of kites or just walk with kids.

From the South the border of Tiananmen is marked with a line, the front gate-Qianmen (Solar Gate) - now it is only two towers, and in 15-18 centuries they were really gates and separated the residence of the Emperor (Forbidden city) from the "Chinese city".

The Western border of the square is marked by the house of people's Assembly (the building of the Chinese Parliament — the highest legislative body of the PRC), and the East side is framed by the Museum of Revolution and Historical Museum. These buildings were built in 1958, during a large-scale reconstruction of the square.

The North side of Tiananmen is the wall of the Forbidden city with the Gates of Heavenly Peace.

In addition to all this greatness, the middle of the square, which until 1958 was empty, is now decorated with a flagpole (raising and lowering the flag of China can be seen twice a day).

To the South rises the Monument to the people's Heroes (the obelisk with a height of 36 m.). Behind the monument is the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, built in 1977.