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#15 Potala Palace, Tibet
Finally, skip a big one and see the winter residence of the Dalai Lama, which is 3700 meters high. According to the rumors, the palace was built by the gods during the night. According to historical sources, the construction started in the 7th century, then the 5th Dalai Lama rebuilt it in the 17th century. Its floor area is 360 thousand square meters, its glittering gilded top is visible from afar. The walls of the palace were carved from granite and the buildings were tied with cast iron to withstand the earthquake. The palace group consists of four parts, consisting of about seven thousand rooms, whose walls are covered with frescos. The building complex also contains eight independent pagodas, one of which is the Dalai Lama’s tomb pagoda, with almost four tons of gold and decorated with 15,000 gemstones.