The Great Wall of China was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Today, it stretches for thousands of miles along China's historic northern border. To this day, the Great Wall remains world's longest man-made structure, stretching a formidable 3,948 miles!
"There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with
the
indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley."
W. Somerset Maugham
Taking over 2000 years to build, it is not a wall but a series of fortifications. The Great Wall is not a single-structured wall, it includes beacon towers, barriers, barracks, garrison stations, and fortresses along the walls, together forming an integrated defense system... To learn more follow the Dragon... π