Xian, City Wall, its main sights

Xian has been the capital of 13 dynasties. Xian is renowned for being the eastern terminus of the Silk Road and for the location of the Terracotta Army from Qin Dynasty. The City is surrounded by a City Wall, which was reconstructed in the Ming Dynasty and based in inner imperial palace of Tang Dynasty. The City Wall of Xian has 4 main gates. Main sights: Terracotta Army inside Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, 3rd century BC., the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda are both spectacular towers and both are well over 1,000 years old, the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower, located at the city centre, the Shaanxi History Museum has a large collection of articrafts both modern and ancient.

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[mohe1118]

Very Nice. Really serene and beautiful.

[Marimylonopoulou]

China is a beatiful country with fantastic landscape and very polite and nice people.

[Marimylonopoulou]

We were very much impressed by the beautiful scenery and the interesting sights of Xi'an.

[Seres1091]

@abooomar1 Muslims didn't exist when this city was built

[abooomar1]

muslim city

[ssk1950ut]

Ihad seen This city so much beautiful Thank chinese woman who have hard worker

[MyLalinea]

i have read that xian is the city were a chinese woman is buried that invented wing chun kung fu the style of bruce lee does anyone knows if this is right ?

[teddythefrency]

Xian is twinned with my city of Pau, in Bearn, South West of France.

I love thesubtitles in Greek, two languages I love: Chinese language,and Greel too, xie xie and efkharisto!

[ruby851026]

thanks Miriam~ It's so good to see my hometown in your vedio!! we are so pleasure you like my city and you are always welcomed!!!

[myzen0626]

The background music is the Qin opera ,very popular In Shaanxi,and Gansu province northwest of China.

[myzen0626]

The background music is the Qin opera ,very popular In Shaanxi,and Gansu province northwest of China.