PRC Travel Jiangsu - Nanjing Presidential Palace 南京总统府 (2012 1219)
Location No.292 Changjiang Road Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Coordinates 32°2′43″N 118°47′32″E
How to get to Nanjing Presidential Palace
1. Take Metro line 2 or Metro line 3 and get off at Daxinggong Station.
2. Take bus 9, 29, 44, 65, 95, 304 or G5 to Zongtongfu (Nanjing Presidential Palace).
3. Take bus 2, 3, 31, 68, 80, or 313 to Daxinggong Bei.
From early Ming Dynasty, this palace was home to royal princes. Then in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), it became the office of the General Governor of Liangjiang Area, embracing today’s Jiangsu, Shanghai, Anhui, and Jiangxi. In 1853, Nanjing fell to the Taiping Rebellion and the palace housed the Heavenly King. In 1911, Sun Yat-sen took his inauguration oath of office there as the provisional president of the Republic of China. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, Nanjing Presidential Palace continued to host official functions till the late 1990s, when it was transformed into the China Modern History Museum.
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