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Forbidden City Music HallvsTiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
Forbidden City Music Hall and Tiananmen Square are both endorsed by expert reviewers. Overall, Forbidden City Music Hall scores slightly better than Tiananmen Square. Forbidden City Music Hall has a TripExpert Score of 89 with accolades from 5 reviews such as Afar Magazine, Travel + Leisure and Lonely Planet.
Forbidden City Music Hall
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Michelin Guide
Afar Magazine
Inside Zhongshan Garden, West Changan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing
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Concierge "Built during the Ming dynasty by 200,000 laborers and completed in 1422, this grandiose palace sits at the heart of the modern-day capital city."
Travel + Leisure "It doesn’t have a street address—which is only fitting for a place that was once considered the center of the universe." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"This extraordinary urban complex of 800 palaces, temples and pavilions containing some 9 000 rooms presents a huge challenge for the millions of tourists."
Afar Magazine "The Forbidden City has nearly 1,000 buildings spread across 72 hectares (178 acres), making it the world's largest palace complex." Full review
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
Fodor's Concierge Travel + Leisure Michelin Guide Afar Magazine
U.S. News & World Report
West Changan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100006
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Fodor's "The world's largest public square, and the very heart of modern China, Tiananmen Square owes little to grand imperial designs and everything to Mao Zedong." Full review
Concierge "This vast concrete expanse (it covers more than a hundred acres) is dominated by an unsmiling portrait of Chairman Mao."
Travel + Leisure "Capable of holding a million people, the 100-acre Tiananmen is the world’s largest public square." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"The affirmation of absolute power is embodied in this 20ha esplanade, a megalomaniac creation of Mao, whose portrait still features as a backdrop."
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Today, soldiers still parade every morning and evening.
Afar Magazine "The world's seventh-largest public square is best known in the West for the 1989 student protests, but this is also where, on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong founded the People's Republic of China." Full review
U.S. News & World Report6.0
"Up there with Times Square, Red Square and St&*& Peter's Square, Tiananmen Square is among the world's most famous public spaces. Almost anyone can recognize the Gate of Heavenly Peace..." Full review
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The square is the geographic, political and tourist center of the city, which makes it unavoidable.
