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Badaling Great Wall (Badaling Station)
Updated: Dec 24, 2019
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Badaling Great Wall
八达岭长城
Badaling Station
Location: Yanqing district, Beijing
Website: www.badaling.cn
The Badaling Great Wall is located in the northwest of Beijing and serves as a pass for Jundu Mountain. It is the best preserved and the most typical section of China's Great Wall dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Located at the north end of the Guangou valley, where two peaks come face to face, Badaling became a strategic post in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). Adding garrison cities and short walls with more functions, the Badaling Great Wall was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. No longer a simple high wall, it then became a rigorous and complex defensive system. Areas of Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei provinces are all in the Great Wall’s path.
Since the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Badaling Great Wall has become more deserted and destroyed. It went through several restorations after the founding of new China, and now some of its pieces have been repaired and restored to their original state.
The Badaling Great Wall resounds across the entire world, and it is the first part of the Great Wall that was open to the public, welcoming tourists from all over the globe.
