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District guide · Bangkok
393 places catalogued in เขตพระนคร so far.
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The Grand Palace is the walled royal compound on the east bank of the Chao Phraya that Rama I began on 6 May 1782, an act that also founded Bangkok.
Wat Phra Kaew is the royal chapel standing inside the Grand Palace wall, and it is the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand, by function rather than by consensus of guidebooks.
Wat Pho, in full Wat Phra Chetuphon, is the temple immediately south of the Grand Palace, and it is the only monument in Bangkok carrying an international documentary-heritage inscription.
Wat Suthat Thepwararam is one of only ten first-class royal temples in Bangkok, and the one written into the city's original plan rather than added beside it.
Wat Mahathat Yuwaratrangsarit is a first-class royal temple of the highest grade — one of only six ratchaworamahawihan temples in Thailand — with an Ayutthaya-period foundation and a position that is itself a statement: it stands on Maha Rat Road…
Wat Ratchabophit Sathit Maha Simaram is Rama V's own foundation of 1869 and the most formally peculiar of Bangkok's royal temples, which is exactly why it is worth seeing after the canonical ones rather than before them.
Wat Ratchanatdaram Worawihan stands where Ratchadamnoen Klang meets Maha Chai Road in Phra Nakhon, and it is on itineraries for one building inside it: Loha Prasat, the metal-spired monastery.
The Democracy Monument stands on a traffic circle where Ratchadamnoen Avenue crosses Dinso Road, in Phra Nakhon district, roughly halfway between Sanam Luang and the Golden Mount.
Khao San Road is a 410-metre street in Phra Nakhon, a few minutes' walk from the Chao Phraya, whose name means milled rice and whose reputation has nothing to do with rice.
The Giant Swing, Sao Chingcha in Thai, is a 21.15-metre red teak frame standing on an open island in front of Wat Suthat in Phra Nakhon, and it is the last physical trace of a Brahmin ceremony that Bangkok stopped…
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