National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine
Hilltop shrine styled on an imperial palace, honoring hundreds of thousands of war dead.
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This guide to Taipei's National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine follows the hill beneath the motionless honor guards through two changes of allegiance: a Japanese Shinto shrine built for Tokyo's own war dead, replaced after the war by a hall echoing the Forbidden City's Hall of Supreme Harmony. You'll hear who commissioned the new hall, and about the day a former president's body lay here in state before its journey to a mausoleum outside the city. Time it for the top of the hour, when the guard changes.
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