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The city have also experienced extremely hot weather on 4 June 2017 due to La Niña, with the temperature reached up to 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) in a week. Hanoi can sometimes experience snow in winter. The most recent snow happened on Ba Vì mountain range, and the temperature fell to 0 °C (32 °F) on 24 January 2016. [75]
Đại La (Chinese: 大羅城; pinyin: Dàluóchéng), means the Citadel of the Great Dike, or La Thành (羅城, means the Citadel of the Dike) was an ancient fortified city in present-day Hanoi during the third Chinese domination of the 7th and 8th centuries, [1] and again in the 11th-century under Lý dynasty.
The district has an extensive bus system provided by the Hanoi's government but only has one metro line in operation, Hanoi Metro Line 3, which partially opened in August 2024. [94] Hanoi's first dedicated shared-use path is at the border of Cầu Giấy, near Tô Lịch River, but it remains unpopular among residents due to pollution. [95]
Dau Go is a single large tunnel descending along a major set of fractures to a massive choke. The second group of caves is the old karstic foot caves which include Trinh Lu, Bo Nau, Tien Ong and Trong caves. Foot caves are a ubiquitous feature of karst landscapes which have reached a stage of widespread lateral undercutting at base level.
The outermost sector is the primary defensive fortification of the citadel (called La thành or Kinh thành), the middle sector is the Imperial City (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành), between these two layers is a residential area, the innermost sector is the Forbidden City (or "Purple Forbidden City", from the Vietnamese Tử cấm thành; a term ...
Map showing the official extent of the Old Quarter. The official extent of the Hanoi Old Quarter has been fixed by a 1995 decision from the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction: [1] in the north it is limited by Hàng Đậu street, in the west by Phùng Hưng street, in the south by Hàng Bông street, Hàng Gai street, Cầu Gỗ street, and Hàng Thùng street, and in the east by Trần ...
Painting depicts emperor Lê Hy Tông (r. 1675–1705) giving an audience (c. 1685). Steles inscribed with names of graduate scholars in Quốc Tử Giám, Hanoi. From Lê Thánh Tông's 1463 reforms onward, the Vietnamese state's structure was modeled after the Ming dynasty of China. Lê established six ministries and six courts, centralizing ...
Hanoi: 1991 960; (mixed) The site is an important ecological zone and cultural zone, with archaeological sites dating back 10,000 years and geological formations dating back 200 million years. The Perfume Pagoda Festival is held annually, with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. The Hương Sơn Complex comprises three groups ...