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Shangdu (Xanadu) - Summer Palace of Kublai Khan

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Shangdu

Shangdu (Chinese: ; pinyin: Shàngdū, Mandarin pronunciation: [ʂɑ̂ŋ tú]), also known as Xanadu (pron.: /ˈzæn.ə.d/; Mongolian: Šandu), was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (Chinese: ), which he renamed Dàdū, present-day Beijing. Xanadu was visited by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo in about 1275, and in 1797 inspired a famous poem, Kubla Khan, by one of the leading English poets of the Romanticism movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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