From liuxuepaper.com.
the summer palace (yiheyuan) in the northwestern suburb of beijing was built in 1750. by far the best-preserved imperial garden in china, it was endorsed by the unesco in 1998 as a world cultural heritage site. as a paragon of chinese gardens, this huge garden includes longevity hill, whose beauty is set off by a multitude of halls, kiosks and trees, and kunming lake, a huge body of liquid silver. major tourist attractions are tower of buddhist incense, 17-span bridge, long gallery, cloud dispelling hall, marble boat, beamless hall, garden of harmonious delights, the theatre in the garden of moral harmony, and suzhou street. the entire place is a de facto museum of china's classical architecture. housed in these buildings are an immense collection of treasures and cultural artifacts．