Forbidden, now Palace of the people
By Yu Fei | China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-11 07:58
The Palace Museum was home to 24 emperors but now houses many of the country's greatest treasures
Wang Ge got lost on his first day working in Beijing's Forbidden City, a 500-year-old palace of some 9,000 rooms, huge walls and labyrinthine passageways.
The Forbidden City, also known as Palace Museum, is in the heart of the capital and covers 720,000 square meters.
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