Historical landmark
Thai Binh Pavilion
Two-story royal reading pavilion roofed in porcelain-shard mosaics and glazed imperial yellow tile.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Thai Binh Pavilion in the Hue Imperial City opens with a dating puzzle: some records place its origins under Emperor Thieu Tri in the eighteen forties, others credit an entirely new building ordered by Khai Dinh around nineteen twenty. From there it turns to how the small reading room was actually built, from its porcelain-and-glass mosaic roofline to the glazed tile reserved for imperial use, and what that construction meant when war reached the walled quarter around it decades later.
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