The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre has opened a
new culture centre for tourists at a historic site that had been an
office during the Hue royal dynasty.
Visitors to the former imperial palace in Hue City
can now walk through the same halls once frequented by queens during the
Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945).
Authorities in Quang Tri Province are proceeding with work to preserve
historic wells, estimated to be thousands of years old, that have been
in a state of disrepair for decades.
The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre has just bought a rickshaw used by
Queen Mother Tu Minh, mother of King Thanh Thai (1879-1954), at an
auction held in Paris.
Heritage sites across Hue province will charge
visitors new entrance fees, ones that reflect the monuments'' value and
are blind to nationality, said an official of the Hue Monuments
Conservation Centre on Wednesday.
Hue Monuments Conservation Centre re-enacted the Tet pole erecting ceremony that was once held in the former Royal Palace during the Nguyen Dynasty reign (1802-1945).
Phan Thanh Hai, director of Hue Monuments Conservation Centre said
nearly 3,500 international tourists were the first visitors in Hue on
the first day of 2014.
Five invaluable royal items have been stolen from Khiem Lang Mausoleum
in Thua Thien-Hue Province, the resting place of a Nguyen Dynasty
(1802-1945) king
The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre has installed an automatic
lighting system on one of the gates of the royal palace in a bid to make
the site look more attractive to tourists in the evenings.
