Historical landmark
Mausoleum of Emperor Tu Duc
Walled royal retreat of lakes and pavilions built by an emperor for a body never laid to rest inside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mausoleum of Emperor Tu Duc in Hue follows the ruler who commissioned his own tomb complex at only thirty-five, filling it with lakes, pavilions, and poetry retreats built for the living rather than the dead. Childhood smallpox left him without an heir despite more than one hundred wives, and in eighteen sixty-six the very laborers building his tomb rose up against him, forcing him to rename it. Listen at Luu Khiem Lake, by the pavilion where Tu Duc once wrote poetry.
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