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The beautiful Potala Palace in Tibet...!


Built on a hill Marpo Ri one hundred thirty feet above the valley ofLhasa the Potala Palace rises  even 170 feet and is the largestmonument at Ol the Tibet. In 637 Emperor Songtsen Gampo decided to build this palace on a hill and the structure stood until the seventeenthcentury , and included in  older buildings that survive today . The construction of the palace began in 1645 during the reign of the fifthDalai Lama and the added between 1690 and 1694 . For theconstruction took over 7000 interpreted cats and 1500 artists andcraftsmen The Potala Palace was small disasters during the uprisingin Tibet against the invading Chinese in 1959 .



  Fortunately, and other religious structures did not accept major disasters between 1960 and 1970 As a result all the churches andart are very well preserved .

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