but what I had not heard of was it's secret garden,
because, well it was a secret, but after years of restoration it will in the future be open again,
built in the 15th Century, the Forbidden City was a center
of power for hundreds of years, a vast and sprawling complex of residential,
cultural and political spaces, the Secret Garden within its walls was shut off from view after
the last emperor was deposed,
current conservation
efforts are underway, aimed at making the space historically accurate down to
the last detail, the Secret Garden has been largely
untouched for hundreds of years, closed off and left theoretically intact but
also subject to decay, the first stage of the project was completed in 2008,
and the final phases are scheduled to finish by 2020, at which time visitors
will be able to enter once more, who would have thought that the garden was there and lay untouched for so long?
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