Tomb of Minh Mang

The Tomb is 12 km from Hue, on the west bank of the Perfume River. It was built as the plan drawn out by the Emperor Minh Mang himself and on the place chosen by the Emperor too in the middle of the pine forest. It took ten thousand soldiers and artisans to complete the project from 1840 to 1843. The tomb is a standard architectural complex consisting of 40 constructions (palaces, temples, pavilions, etc.), all lie within an oval shaped wall with a circumference of2,000m. A walk of about700min length bisects the interior of the complex into two equal halves. Along it are theSalutation Court, Stele House, Sung An Temple, Minh Lau Pavilion, and the tomb itself being at the very back of the complex.