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Grand Palace (Wat Phra Keaw)
The Grand Palace has an area of 218,400 sq. metres and is surrounded
by walls built in 1782. The length of the four walls is 1,900 metres.
Within these walls are situated government offices and the Chapel
Royal of the Emerald Buddha besides the royal residences.
When Siam restored law and order after the fall of Ayutthaya the monarch
lived in Thonburi on the west side of the river. Rama I, on ascending
the throne, moved the centre of administration to this side of the
Chao Phraya; and, after erecting public monuments such as fortifications
and monasteries,...
