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To celebrate the golden anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on 1 October 1949, Tiananmen Square was recently renovated, with granite replacing the old paving blocks.
Stand on either of the circular paving stones set between the square’s twin 17th-century fountains and the red granite Egyptian obelisk to appreciate the harmony of the quadruple rows of Doric columns, so perfectly aligned that they seem like a single row.
One of the city’s more bizarre monuments is the Mole Antonelliana, with its swordfish-like 167-m- (547-ft-) high granite spire, named after its engineer designer Alessandro Antonelli.
Enteringthemaincourtyard of the temple, you will findaperistylehall(with onerowofsupporting columns)decoratedwith flutedcolumns that werecommissioned by the Queen Hatshepsut,andseveralimpressivestatuesofRamses II in black and red granite.Perhapsthemostfascinating element of the hall is the Mosque of Abu El Haggag which was built within the temple complex to protect the tomb of a 12th-century descendent of Mohammed’s brother-in-law.
On the vast three-sided Confederation Square — popularly known for its traffic congestion as “Confusion Square” — notice the great granite arch of the National War Memorial, with its statues of 22 World War I soldiers and a horse-drawn cannon.