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First impressions of Beijing are of an almost inhuman vastness, conveyed by the
sprawl of identical apartment buildings in which most of the city's population of twelve
million are housed, and the eight-lane freeways that slice it up. It's an impression
that's reinforced on closer acquaintance, from the magnificent Forbidden City ,
with its stunning wealth of treasures, the concrete desert of Tian'anmen Square
and the gargantuan buildings of the modern executive around it, to the rank after rank
of office complexes that line its mammoth roads. Outside the centre, the scale becomes
more manageable, with parks, narrow alleyways and ancient sites such as the Yonghe
Gong , Observatory and, most magnificent of all, the Temple of Heaven
, offering respite from the city's oppressive orderliness. In the suburbs beyond, the
two Summer Palaces and the Western Hills have been favoured retreats since
imperial times.