Shwebon Yadana Mingala Palace () is a royal

palace A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome whi ...

Shwebo Shwebo ( ) is a city in Sagaing Region, Burma, 110 km north-west of Mandalay between the Irrawaddy and the Mu rivers. The city was the origin of the Konbaung Dynasty, established by King Alaungpaya in 1752, that was the dominant politic ...

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

. The palace was originally built in 1753 AD by King Alaungphaya U Aung Zeya, who was the founder of the

Konbaung dynasty The Konbaung dynasty (), also known as the Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်), was the last dynasty that ruled Burma from 1752 to 1885. It created the second-largest empire in history of Mya ...

and was capital city until 1760 when the capital was moved to nearby Sagain. Different to other Royal palaces in Myanmar it was centered on a large, graduated pavilion. Having two walls, the outer wall forms a square closure, surrounded by a moat. With the tomb of King Alaungpaya located to the southeast of the palace building. It was reconstructed in 1999 based on a mid 19th-century manuscript on a November 1853 expedition to collect the remaining timber posts of the palace, carve them out, and turn them into sacred images. It has long city walls. The palace is home to the Shwebonyadana Palace Museum, built in 1994 and opened in 1999. The museum replaced an earlier museum that was first established in 1904.

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