Hue, the capital of the Nguyen emperors
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Hue is one of the jewels of Vietnam and many ancient, vietnames style buildings would still remain intact if war would have never happened. It was first the French, later the American, who bombed and destroyed one of the marvels of the country: Hue’s citadel. The complex is located within 3 concentric stone walls of around two meters thick, each of them keeping the security and the privacy of the one inside. The first wall and also the longer one runs along the Perfume River bed and was the entrance to the city itself. The second one, the imperial enclosure housing the emperor’s residence and the main buildings of state, separated citizens to the emperor’s court, and nowadays keeps vehicles outside its limits, which makes the visit much more quieter and nicer. And the third one gave access to the Forbidden City, inhabitated by the Emperor and his concubines.
