Summer Palace of Bao Dai

Palace III is the name of summer palace of the last emperor of the Nguyen dynasty and also of Vietnamese feudal dynasties - Bao Dai.

Palace III is an elegant mansion, set amid the poetic scenery of a pine hill on Trieu Viet Vuong Street, about 2km from the center of Dalat city in the southwest. The palace was built in 1933, and in 1950 when France returned to Vietnam and put Bao Dai as the puppet chief, he used Palace III as a place to work as well as a place for his whole family.

Palace has European architecture, including 2 floors with 25 luxurious rooms. The campus outside the palace has a small flower garden in the style of the French palaces. The ground floor of the mansion was used by the former emperor as a workplace, meeting, reception, banquet, and dining room. In particular, the rooms are mounted in harmony with each other through glass doors and glass-framed windows.

The living room is a place for guests to wait for the king's opinion. There are artifacts in the room: the piano that the queen and the princess often play; a lacquer painting depicting Angkor's power from a Cambodian friend in 1951 on the occasion of King Bao Dai's birthday; oil painting painted landscape of Thai Mieu in Hue. The second floor is dedicated for the royal family members.