Coal Hill Park

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Directly opposite the North Gate of the Imperial Palace, Coal Hill Park (Jingshan) offers a number of the simplest views in Peking, notably over Beihai Park Lake and therefore the prohibited Palace. Taking its name from the coal that was once hold on here for the Ming dynasty Emperors, this mostly semisynthetic hill - one in all simply one or two in Peking - was started around 1416 throughout the development of the Imperial Palace once the marketing of scrap from the recent town wall and enormous quantities of soil from excavation of the trench close the palace resulted within the once-low natural mound soaring tall. A highlight of a visit, additionally to the numerous splendid gardens and walkways, is AN recent tree tree from that the last Ming dynasty emperor was imagined to have adorned himself in 1644.

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