Poetry Tower in Hue

The Poetry Pavilion was built by King Minh Mang in 1825 in the middle of Hoc Hai Lake, inside the citadel. More than 1,000 soldiers and workers were mobilized to dig the lake, build the island and construct the structure.

With a structure built entirely of bricks, stones, and mortar, Tang Tho Tower is a very different building compared to hundreds of wooden architectural works at that time.

The building has 2 floors, the lower floor has 11 rooms, the upper floor has 7 rooms and 2 wings, all rooms are used to store important documents of the Nguyen Dynasty, most of which are paper documents and woodblocks.

This is a rare "monk's library" from the monarchy period that is still preserved quite intact in Hue, a special architectural work in the complex of architectural relics that are commonly made of wood of the Nguyen Dynasty capital.

According to the book “Tang Tho Lau Ba Tich” (1907), the documents stored here are important diplomatic documents between Vietnam and France, between Vietnam and the Chinese court, documents of the Six Ministries (Personnel, Finance, Rites, Military, Justice, Public Works), woodblocks for printing books of the court... in which the number of land registers is very large.

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