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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.
The Bangkok National Museum occupies the Wang Na, the front palace of the Second King, on Na Phra That Road beside Sanam Luang, and it is the head institution of Thailand's national museum service under the Fine Arts Department.
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.
Museum Siam is a museum about being Thai, in a building that was designed by an Italian.
Wat Bowonniwet Vihara is the headquarters temple of the Thammayut order, and that single fact governs everything a visitor sees in the compound.
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.
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