Located on a hilltop on Trieu Viet Vuong Street, about 3 km from the center of Da Lat City ( Lam Dong ), Palace 3 is considered by many to be the most beautiful building among King Bao Dai's palaces.
Sketch by Architect Tran Xuan Hong
Sketch by Architect Linh Hoang
The project was designed by two French architects, Paul Veysseyre and Arthur Kruze, and completed around 1937 (*). When King Bao Dai was in Hue , this was a summer villa and a resort. Around 1950, this was the workplace and resort of former King Bao Dai - who had a private fleet of planes piloted by French pilots. After 1955, this was the resort of the president of the Republic of Vietnam.
Sketch by Architect Linh Hoang
Sketch by 10th grade student Le Tran Mai Han
Sketch by Architect Bui Hoang Bao
Sketch by Architect Tran Thai Nguyen
Sketch by designer Le Quang Khanh
Reception hall - sketch by architect Tran Thai Nguyen
In addition to the large flower bed in front of the palace, the Royal Garden, the lake, the palace grounds have many miniature landscapes like those in French palaces, so there is green space everywhere. Palace 3 has two floors with 25 large and small rooms, a cellar containing rare wines and many Hue royal antiques such as seals, jade seals, ivory... This is also the place with the most complete and valuable jade collection of Vietnamese feudal dynasties that still exists today (this treasure is still being protected, not yet on display).
King Bao Dai was a good marksman and often organized hunting trips. In the past, Palace 3 was decorated with 3 tiger skins and a pair of buffalo horns that King Bao Dai shot.
In particular, according to the Lao Dong Newspaper, Palace 3 also preserves a map of Vietnam made of silver. In high mountainous areas, the silver is plated thicker. In the delta plains where rice is grown, there are symbols of people and buffalo plowing. In the coconut growing areas such as Ben Tre , Binh Dinh..., there are silver inlays of coconut trees. At sea, there are silver inlays of fishing boats...
(*): There is an opinion that Palace 3 was designed by French architect Paul Veysseyre and architect Huynh Tan Phat, completed in 1938. However, this is still controversial because during the period 1933 - 1938, architect Huynh Tan Phat was a student at the Indochina College of Fine Arts.
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