Angkor est l’un des principaux sites archéologiques de l’Asie du Sud-Est. S’étendant sur quelque 400 km2 couverts en partie par la forêt, le parc archéologique d’Angkor recèle les admirables vestiges des différentes capitales de...
Le temple de Preah Vihear, dédié à Shiva, se trouve au bord d’un plateau qui domine la plaine du Cambodge. Composé d'une série de sanctuaires reliés par un système de chaussées et d'escaliers s'étendant sur un axe de...
Angkor Thom est la grande cité capitale de Jayavarman VII (1181-1218), 9 km2, comprenant les ruines du Palais Royal, les Tours Suor Prasat et un certain nombre de temples, Preah Palilay, Preah Pithu, mais surtout le Temple-Montagne Baphuon et l'envoûtant temple Bayon. A la vue de...
Le Bayon (ou Bayuan) est le temple central de l'ancienne ville d'Angkor Thom, capitale des souverains khmers au début du xiiie siècle. Il est situé à l'intersection des routes Nord-Sud et Est-Ouest.C'est le dernier des...
Consecrated in 967 A.D, Banteay Srei was speculated to have been known earlier as Banteay Serai, which literally means the Citadel of Victory. This was the only major temple at Angkor not built by a monarch; its construction is credited to a courtier named Yajnavaraha, who was a scholar and...
Phnom Bakheng was constructed more than two centuries before the Angkor Wat. It is a Hindu temple originally built in the form of a temple mountain dedicated to Shiva. Historians believe that Phnom Bakheng was in its heyday, the principal temple of the Angkor region. It was the...
Ta Prohm, a Bayon style temple, is believed to be built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. It was founded by King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was...
The Royal Palace of Cambodia is a complex of buildings, even though it is generally understood to be the royal abode of the King of Cambodia. The compound was the citadel of King Ponhea Yat (1393-1463) and rebuilt to its present state in 1886, when King Norodom (1834-1904) relocated the royal...
The Silver Pagoda, also known as the Preah Vihear Preah Keo Morokat (the Emerald Pagoda) to Cambodians, lies within the grounds of the Royal Palace, which is situated near the banks of the Mighty Mekong.Originally a wooden structure, the palace was initially constructed in 1892 during the reign...
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