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Notre Dame Cathedral
in Bac Giang), one of the birthplaces cultures and water puppet houses
of the Three Divines Zen school. that appeal to large numbers of
Inspired by the ancient northern foreign tourists.
pagoda, yet constructed using
modern materials. This is a typical Reunification Palace
structure of 20th century Vietnamese
Buddhism and also the largest Reunification Palace: on its
Mahayana pagoda in the city. foundation once lay a structure
called Norodom Palace that was
War Remnants Museum built in 1873.
War Remnants Museum: located at In 1975, the President of the
No.28, Vo Van Tan Str., Dist. 3, the Puppet Government, Ngo Dinh
War Remnants Museumwas founded Diem chose the building as the
in September 1975 and previously Presidential Palace. In late 1962
known as the Exhibition Hall of the palace was reconstructed
the US and Allies’War Crimes. The and renamed the Independence
museum offers some war artifacts Palace. It comprises 5 stories
such as aircrafts, cannon, tanks, with 100 rooms, each of which
guillotines and two jail cells in the is characterized by distinctive
actual proportion of those in Con decorative styles. The floor area is
Dao prison. There are exclusive 4,500km2 on a total land area of
halls focusing on the Southwestern 120,000km2.
Frontier War, Northern Border
Protection War, Spratly Islands Issues. On April 30, 1975, tanks of the
Liberation Army penetrated the
The outside of the museum features Independence Palace to mark the end
pavilions of Vietnam’s ethnic of the Saigon Puppet Government.
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