King An Duong Vuong - Loa Viet Nam

Loa

Loa associated with interesting legends of ethnic Vietnamese , King An Duong Vuong of the city , built up ; On Golden crossbow firing a god down hundreds of enemies ; On the tragic love affair and feel of My Chau - Trong Thuy ... From centuries , this ancient castle along with the historic character of legend has come into the minds of the people of Vietnam .



This is the ancient buildings in Vietnam is the most Thuc An Duong Vuong King built in the 3rd century BC to the capital of the Au Lac ( Vietnam country name at the time ) , now in Dong Anh district , suburban Cabinet .

The style round buildings built ( so called Loa ) Legend of up to 9 rounds , under the moat outside the boat submerged walk. Today in Loa ancient land remaining 3 rounds : List Apart ( 8km ) , The Between ( polygon perimeter of 6.5 km ) and The In ( rectangular perimeter of 1.6 km ) . Body of today there are an average height of 4 - 5m , with room left to 12m high , 20 - foot width of 30m . The door of the 3 rounds also imparted very cleverly arranged ; does not lie on the same diagonal axis deviation straight away that a lot. Therefore, a two-door ramp in the same direction are a winding road , there are two sides defense emplacements should cause many obstacles for the enemy to strike when .

Loa Temple Festival
Over the period of history , there are many names Loa : Loa ( the building ) , the Kunlun , the Tu Long , the Mekong , Vietnam Thanh Vuong , the ability Flood , the Loa . By the tenth century , the period of Ngo Quyen king , Loa became the second capital .
From the city center , 18 km to go Loa Commune , Dong Anh district , you will find traces of the remaining three rounds of the ancient earth and where archaeologists found thousands of arrows , plows , iron ax , animal bones ...

Through the village entrance , as well as to home port in the City Loa Village . According to legend , it is the expression of the old court , where she summoned the past, so the family was broken horizontal " royal dynasty cell regulation ." Competition is Am Ba Chua family ie Princess My Chau shrine , nestled under the grand old banyan tree . Temple baby as am short life of the poor princess ' heart to make the top " . In am a headless humanoid rocks . Who said it is also subject Americas.

Through am American continent to the upper temple , which temple An Duong Vuong , the Legend is up on the day before the contents . So far as the early twentieth century , there are two stone dragons at the temple stairs door or Le Tran dynasty artifacts profile . In An Duong Vuong temple bronze statue cast on the same occasion as the new temple . Before the Ngoc Son Temple , where Trong Thuy Legend suicide because of remorse . This well water that washed the shining pearl pearl multiplies !

1962 , ranked Loa historical - cultural state . It is full of this kind of ruins houses, temples , pagodas , am and shrines . In which contained many cultural values ​​for generations Vietnam .

In the Citadel area preserved many historical - architectural : the upper temple area churches An Duong Vuong Dynasty royal family travel destinations rules , am worship My Chau and Bao Son Pagoda with hundreds of statues ...

Loa Temple
The archaeologists also exhibited here are many precious artifacts of the ancient Vietnamese excavated underground Loa : The drum Loa , currency , copper ax , thousands of arrows , plows , objects made ​​of ceramic , terracotta , ...
Every year , the festival Loa commemorate King An Duong Vuong was held in the spring , dated 6th January. There are 8 villages in Co Loa Commune organized processions converge on the traditional family courtyard Loa , offertory , expressed sincere heart for the king had great merit in building and defending the country , just behind the king Hung .

Towards 1000 years of Thang Long - Ha Noi ( 2010 ) , Loa is gradually being restored , embellished worthy historical, cultural capital , Hanoi has established the project " Conservation Planning , restore and promote the work of Loa relic site " .
Co Loa relic under the new plan will include : Co Loa relic , An Duong Vuong memorial and historical sites and other cultural , with a total area of ​​830 ha located in Co Loa commune , Vietnamese Hung , Tu Duc , Uy . Northwest delimited by linking urban planning 34 (expected ) to British East Industrial Park , north-east is delimited by Loa - Yen Vien , south and southwest region delimited by inter- East of England districts .
Planning Co Loa relic will be made in 2020 with the primary planning area :

The monument area : loops including accrued and proud to be protected against infringement , the inner ring is embellished with the entire length of over 1,700 m . The exchange and the secondary will embellish some sections had deteriorated to serve the mining relics , the restoration period mainly focused on 8 doors .