{"id":2304,"date":"2015-04-05T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2015-04-05T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T09:02:25","slug":"grand-palace-bangkok-listed-worlds-3rd-visited-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2304-grand-palace-bangkok-listed-worlds-3rd-visited-palace","title":{"rendered":"Grand Palace in Bangkok listed as world\u2019s 3rd most visited palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Palace is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/cities\/to-see-to-visit-in-bangkok\">place you have to visit in Bangkok<\/a>. It has recently been identified as the 3rd most visited palace in the world. With 8 million annual tourists, it ranks behind the palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing (15 million visitors) and the Louvre Palace in Paris (9.5 million).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/bangkok\/grand-palais-bangkok.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Palace Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grand Palace in Bangkok is the 3rd most visited palace in the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Travel + Leisure<\/em> magazine listed the top 10 most visited palaces in the world. The\u00a0list was recently featured on the CNN website in an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/slideshows\/worlds-most-visited-castles\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;most visited castles in the world&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Palace in Bangkok was the official residence of Thai kings from 1782 to 1925 and has many buildings, halls and pavilions set around lawns and manicured gardens. His neighbor, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/see-visit-thailand\/wat-phra-kaew-bangkok-4\">Temple of the Emerald Buddha <\/a>(Wat Phra Kaew) is considered as one of the holiest places\u00a0in Thailand. Its\u00a0Buddha was carved from a single block of jade and its of pure gold clothes are changed during a royal ceremony, three times a year, to reflect the Thai seasons.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/bangkok\/wat-phra-kaew-grand-palais.jpg\" alt=\"Temple of the Emerald Buddha Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok (Wat Phra Kaew)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is more thanks to Wat Phra Kaew than Grand Palace itself that the place\u00a0ranked so good in the list\u00a0as the visit of the two monuments is coupled and it is impossible for the public to enter the palace. Only a visit from the outside is\u00a0possible. Visitors come more\u00a0for\u00a0the temple which is the most luxurious temple in \u00a0Thailand than for the Grand Palace.<\/p>\n<p>If King of Thailand does not live in the Grand Palace any more, royal offices are still used and state visits and royal ceremonies like\u00a0King Bhumibol Adulyadej&#8217;s Birthday are organized every year in the palace.<\/p>\n<p>Follow in the ranking, the Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, the Winter Palace (Hermitage Museum) in St. Petersburg, the Tower of London, the Sch\u00f6nbrunn Palace in Vienna, the Alhambra Generalife in Granada and Shuri Castle in Okinawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Palace is a place you have to visit in Bangkok. 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