Who'd expect to see the world's favorite three-letter word plastered across the old imperial city of Hue?
The imperial city has been a prominent tourist destination since the early Middle Ages, with striking ruins, catacombs and holy sites.
With Rome's extensive history, religious celebrations and rich culture, spending the holiday in the ancient imperial city is an almost unrivalled experience.
When the Ottoman troops laid siege on Vienna, he volunteered to sneak through the enemy camp and persuade the Polish army to rescue the imperial city.
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Visits to the former imperial city of Hue, a vegetarian Buddhist monastery and the herb farms around Hoi An follow (participants pick lemongrass, basil and cilantro and use them to make fresh spring rolls).
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At the northern end of the Forbidden City is the Imperial Garden, a classical Chinese garden with 7, 000 sq metres of fine landscaping, including rockeries, walkways, pavilions and ancient - carbuncular and deformed - cypresses.
Tourists flock to these landmarks to get a glimpse of the city's ancient imperial past.
Dusk is falling over the Forbidden City, the former imperial residence, and the last crowds of the day are filtering out through the gateways.
But even in the city's commercial and Imperial heyday during the 19th century, it never had such a lead in relative attractiveness as it does today.
There is the Forbidden City, which is the ancient imperial palace where dozens of Chinese emperors ruled the country for 500 years.
The stately building is home to one of the world's top collections of Chinese art, including most of the imperial treasures once housed in Beijing's Forbidden City.
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And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.
There is also the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in the 18th century that is on the outskirts of the city.
In November last year archaeologists located a grotto deep beneath Augustus's imperial palace that may have been the shrine where ancient Romans worshipped Romulus, the founder of the city according to legend.
It's a city whose brilliance is strangely provincial, and whose fussy introspection is set in a landscape of matchless imperial openness and grandeur.
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