Beijing World Park, Miniature park in Huaxiang, Beijing, China
Beijing World Park is an urban park spanning roughly 47 hectares that displays more than 100 detailed replicas of famous landmarks from around the globe. The miniature structures are organized by continent with artificial waterways in between representing the world's oceans.
The park's foundation stone was laid on 5 April 1992 in Huaxiang, Fengtai District, and it opened to trial visitors on 29 September 1993 before its formal opening on 25 October 1993. It covers 46.7 hectares and was listed among Beijing's ten finest parks and as a national 4A-rated scenic area. During the 2008 Summer Olympics it was designated one of three protest zones in the city.
The park's cultural programme includes daily opening ceremonies with a parade of large-scale floats, and folklore dances staged indoors or in open-air arenas. Performers are either the park's own dancers or troupes representing their home cultures. In 2005 a Thai elephant performed four times a day from May to October.
The park covers 46.7 hectares in Fengtai District, about 17 km from Tiananmen. Visitors get around the four modelled oceans and five continents by speedboat tour, by monorail circling the continents, or by battery-operated car. Dabaotai station serves the park, and the Dabaotai Western Han tomb museum lies 0.5 km southeast of the south entrance.
The Great Pyramids replica was built from 200,000 white marble bricks, each about the size of a bar of soap. Red Square uses over five million red bricks smaller than mahjong tiles. Most of the park's roughly 109 landmarks are scaled at about 1:10, and materials were chosen to match the originals.
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