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Khiêm Cung, Thôn Thuong Ba, Hue, Vietnam
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2024
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Mausoleum, also known as Khiêm Lang, housing a granite stele with an engraved inscription paying tribute to the reign of the deceased.

This mausoleum is also known as Khiêm Lang. It is entered via a tree-lined driveway. After passing lily-covered ponds and small buildings on stilts, you reach a traffic circle where three superimposed terraces lead to a pavilion flanked by two columns. The building contains a dark granite stele, whose engraved inscription pays homage to the reign of the deceased, listing his qualities. Next comes the pavilion housing his funerary stele, less austere than the rest of his mortuary palace. A protective wall, known as the "precious wall", surrounds a mound where the dead man's body would have been laid, bearing the following epitaph: "Tu Duc was born on September 22, 1829, reigned from 1838 to 1883, son of Thiêu Tri, his real name before he came to the throne was Hong Nham. It was during his reign that the French occupied Tourane, Saigon (1859) and Hanoi (1873-1883)." The whole is particularly interesting, if only because of the personality of this emperor (1841-1883), the fourth in the Nguyên line. Tu Duc, who is estimated to have stood at around 1.40 m tall, nevertheless had a taste for grandeur, with 100 wives (and no descendants). His megalomaniac madness was not without refinement. It is said that he only drank tea infused with dew water, and that it was on the shores of the little lake, under the old frangipani trees, that he composed most of the 1,500 poems that make up his work. As for his tomb, it took 3,000 workers to build...

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Visited in march 2024
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Le site comporte notamment un beau plan d'eau qui donne l'occasion de flâner tranquillement.
pbelin
Visited in march 2019
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Moins spectaculaire que celui de Minh Mang mais cependant très intéressant. La perspective des bâtiments autour du lac est de toute beauté. Le théâtre est assez surprenant dans un tel lieu.
enzo612
Visited in april 2018
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Officially the tomb of Tu Duc, but in reality the remains were not there, because at the time the king was buried with many treasures. So that the tomb is not stripped, it is buried elsewhere. But the tomb remains a beautiful place to visit.
flos06
Visited in august 2017
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Le site est magnifique et donne une impression de sérénité avec le lac en son centre. Il y a également un temple permettant de vénérer les nombreuses concubines.
myaby
Visited in april 2017
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Magnifique site qui vaut le détour Paris les monuments de Hué. Des maisons sur pilotis entourés de frangipaniers et surplombant un lac avec des lotus. Le chemin est bordé de statues d'éléphants lions et mandarins. Très spectaculaire, malgré le fait qu'il ne fait pas parti des plus anciens bâtiments de Hué

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