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Xanadu: Kublai Khans Fabled Capital - World History Encyclopedia Xanadu (aka Shangdu, Shang-tu, and Kaiping) located in Inner Mongolia, northern China, was first the capital (1263-73) and then the summer capital (1274-1364) of the Mongol Empire It came to prominence during the reign of Kublai Khan (r 1260-1294) and was famous for its palaces, gardens and waterways
Xanadu (film) - Wikipedia Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald The film stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly in his final film role
Xanadu | Fabled City, Kubla Khan, Poem | Britannica Xanadu, place in the opium-induced vision that English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge recorded in the poetic fragment “Kubla Khan” (1798) Coleridge’s fantasyland was based on Shangdu (“Upper Capital”), near present-day Duolun in Inner Mongolia, to which the real Kublai Khan moved the seat of Mongol
Xanadu (1980) - IMDb Xanadu: Directed by Robert Greenwald With Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness
Kubla Khan | The Poetry Foundation In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea And…
Site of Xanadu - UNESCO World Heritage Centre North of the Great Wall, the Site of Xanadu encompasses the remains of Kublai Khan’s legendary capital city, designed by the Mongol ruler’s Chinese advisor Liu Bingzhdong in 1256 Over a surface area of 25,000 ha, the site was a unique attempt to assimilate the nomadic Mongolian and Han Chinese cultures
The Site of Xanadu — Yuan Dynasty Summer Capital The Yuan Dynasty capital site of Xanadu (Shangdu) exhibits nomadic Mongolian and Han Chinese cultures and Kublai Khan’s history Find travel info here
What is Xanadu? (with pictures) - Language Humanities Xanadu, also known as Zanadu or Shengdu, is a mythical place that is rooted in an actual area of Inner Mongolia Xanadu became popular as the legendary place mentioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem as the place where Kublai Khan built a giant dome to indulge his every fantasy