Forbidden City

WHS-cities that have been closed to outsiders / visitors for a certain period in history.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Forbidden City':

  • Harar "Harar was a fiercely religious city and was a forbidden city (closed to visitors), until 1887"
  • Hué "Inside the citadel was a forbidden city where only the concubines, emperors, and those close enough to them were granted access, the punishment for trespassing being death." (wiki)
  • Imperial Palace "Forbidden" (in Beijing's Forbidden City or Imperial Palace), referred to the fact that no-one could enter or leave the palace without the emperor's permission.
  • Potala Palace Lhasa is known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
  • Timbuktu Closed to non-islamic visitors for centuries