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The three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.
The commune is about 35 km (22 mi) by car to the south west from the center of the capital Hà Nội. It borders Chương Mỹ district to the north, the communes xã Phúc Lâm and Vĩnh Xương to the east, Hòa Bình Province to the west, and commune Thượng Lâm to the south.
West Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Tây) is the biggest freshwater lake of Hanoi, Vietnam, located northwest of the city center.With a shore length of 17 kilometres (11 mi) and 500 hectares (5.0 km 2) in area, this is the largest lake of the capital and a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, hotels and villas.
The district covers an area of 142 km 2.The district capital lies at Vĩnh Tường. [1] It borders Yên Lạc district (east), Lập Thạch district and Vĩnh Yên city (north), Việt Trì city of Phú Thọ Province (west), Ba Vì district of Hà Nội (west, separated by the Red River), Phúc Thọ district & Sơn Tây city of Hà Nội (south, separated by the Red River).
A local police station in a French Colonial building on Lê Thái Tổ street. The district has a distinctive north–south division among its wards. Its northern-half houses the Old Quarter with small street blocks and alleys, and a traditional Vietnamese atmosphere.
Its name Hà Tây was grafted from "Hà Đông" and "Sơn Tây", two old provinces in the Gulf of Tonkin. The province was dissolved and both Hà Tây and Hòa Bình reverted into separate provinces on August 12, 1991. On May 29, 2008 the decision was made to subsume Hà Tây into the city of Hanoi. The merger took place on August 1, 2008. [1]
Đông Hồ painting is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut paintings originating from Đông Hồ village (làng Đông Hồ). Luy Lâu was the ancient capital of Vietnam after it became a Han Dynasty Chinese province called Jiaozhou, or Jiaozhi under the Chinese Commander-in-chief Shi Xie. Dâu Pagoda was built between AD 187 and 226.
Map of Lang Son province in 1909. The history of the province is the history of Lạng Sơn town. Ancient history is traced to the Bronze Age. This period is marked by the trade route that existed between China and India that passed from the Red River Delta through Nanning to Guangzhou.