Sun-Yat-sen-Mausoleum

The Sun Yat- sen Mausoleum (Chinese中山陵Zhongshanling ) is the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China.

It is located at the foot of Purple Mountain, in the Chinese city of Nanjing and was built in 1926 to 1929.

After the role of Sun Yat-sen is increasingly recognized in the founding of the Republic of China's communist government, coupled with an approach to Taiwan, the mausoleum is now set as historically significant memorial in scene. Daily moves a variety of coaches, some with foreign tourists, mostly with Chinese people to the site.

Situated on a hill, the climb is done on foot via a series of gardens, accompanied by information boards about the life of the founder. The path then leads through a monumental staircase of 392 steps, 480 meters long and 50 meters wide, to the mausoleum, a temple-like building 30 meters long, 25 meters wide and 29 meters high.

In the entrance hall there is a statue of the seated Sun Yat-sen, a ceiling mosaic flag of the Kuomintang, a white star on a blue background. In the back room is the actual coffin, the lid of a marble sculpture of the honorees lying, laid out shows.

In April 2005, the Taiwanese, former Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan visited the mausoleum a visit - the first visit by a Kuomintang member since the revolution of 1949 in November 2006 visited Sun's granddaughter, Sun Huiying, the mausoleum at the age of 80 years..