Marco Polo Bridge
Submitted by SummerL on June 15, 2011
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Marco Polo Bridge
Marco Polo Bridge
Marco Polo Bridge is located in southwest of Beijing. It is one of the most famous bridges and the oldest joint stone arch bridge in China. Because it is across Lugou Rival, Marco Polo Bridge also named Lugou Bridge. Since Marco Polo had ever mentioned this bridge in his travel notes, when spread to the Europe, people just used “Marco Polo” as this bridge’s name. Marco Polo Bridge is not only the treasure of architecture, also a witness to a period of history. In 1973, Chinese anti-Japanese army fired the first shot with Japan in the Marco Polo. It is famous Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
Marco Polo is built in 1189 that is 266.5-meter...
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