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Temples, Pagodas in Vietnam
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| Folk paintings are a combination of traditional cultural values with ancient artistic methods that have been created through the labour of past generations. There are two types of Vietnamese folk paintings, Tet (Lunar New Year Festival) paintings and worshiping paintings.
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| Perfume pagoda |
| Huong Son Tourist Area covers an area of a thousand hectares and includes a complex of mountains, rivers and streams, villages, pagodas, and grottoes surrounded by the Huong Tich Mountain Range, north of the Truong Son Range. |
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| Duc Ba Cathedral |
| The resplendent Governor’s Palace, completed in 1875, symbolized the regime’s political power in Asia. And five years later, the Duc Ba (Our Lady’s) Cathedral was inaugurated, and became the spiritual and cultural crucible of the French presence in the Orient |
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| Ly Quoc Su Pagoda |
| Ly Quoc Su Pagoda worships a Buddhist Monk of the Ly Dynasty (the 10th - 12th centuries). This Monk, whose full name was Nguyen Chi Thanh, was born on 1066 in Dien Xa Village, Gia Vien District in Ninh Binh Province in the reign of King Ly Thanh Tong |
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| Tran Quoc Pagoda |
| It is said that, the pagoda was built under the reign of King Ly Nam De (544-548) under its original name of Khai Quoc (National Founder). It was originally built on the bank of the West Lake and the Red River |
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| Quan Su Pagoda |
| Formerly,it was a small Buddhist Pagoda, which had been constructed during the Le Dynasty in the 15th century to receive foreign envoys and ambassadors.
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| Tomb of Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan |
| Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan - President Ho Chi Minh’s mother - was born in 1868 in Hoang Tru village, Kim Lien Commune, Nam Dan District, Nghe An Province. She died in 1901 in royal capital city of Hue. Firstly she was buried in Ba Tang Mountain of Ngu Binh Range, near Huong River.
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| Tomb of Minh Mang |
| Minh Mang's tomb is a standard architectural complex consisting of 40 constructions (palaces, temples, pavilions, etc.) designed on an symmetric axis running from Dai Hong gate to the foot of La Thanh (Surrounding Wall) behind the Emperor's tomb. |
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| Tomb of Khai Dinh |
| In comparison with those of the preceding emperors, Khai Dinh’s tomb is much smaller in surface (117m x 48.5m) but it is very elaborate. It is the result of the interminglement of many architectural trends: European and Asian, as well as ancient and modern |
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