45EOpnwLbBz go.huanqiu.comarticleYuanmingyuan Ruins Park opens for free yesterday/e3pmh1tuv/ed6gjo5k9Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park, or the Old Summer Palace, opened to the public for free on Monday to commemorate its 161st anniversary of destruction. On Oct. 18, 1860, Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing and burned down the Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War. The Park, once reputed as the "Garden of Gardens" was razed to the ground and countless cultural relics were looted.1634610710511责编:赵幸ecns.cn163461071051111[]//img.huanqiucdn.cn/dp/api/files/imageDir/aebf219a12eb3f29a1301374d2d05eb8.jpg
Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park, or the Old Summer Palace, opened to the public for free on Monday to commemorate its 161st anniversary of destruction. On Oct. 18, 1860, Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing and burned down the Old Summer Palace during the Second Opium War. The Park, once reputed as the "Garden of Gardens" was razed to the ground and countless cultural relics were looted.