Shwebo Palace

{{Short description|Royal palace in Shwebo, Myanmar}}

File:Shwebo Palace.jpg

Shwebon Yadana Mingala Palace ({{langx|my|ရွှေဘုံရတနာ မင်္ဂလာနန်းတော်}}) is a royal palace in Shwebo, Myanmar. The palace was originally built in 1753 AD by King Alaungphaya U Aung Zeya, who was the first founder of the Konbaung dynasty{{Cite web |url=http://www.archaeologymm.com/php/arch_city_site.php |title=Untitled Document |access-date=2018-02-12 |archive-date=2018-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222104901/http://www.archaeologymm.com/php/arch_city_site.php |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Tainturier |first=François |date=2014 |title=Of Golden Palaces and Celebrated Rulers: Inventing Traditions in Pre-colonial and Contemporary Myanmar |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/43/article/562871 |journal=Journal of Burma Studies |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=223–258 |doi=10.1353/jbs.2014.0015 |issn=2010-314X}} Having two walls, the outer wall forms a 3.5 km square closure, surrounded by a moat. With the tomb of King Alaungpaya located to the southeast of the palace building.{{Cite journal |last=Yamada |first=Koji |date=2021 |title=A Research on the Applicability of the Mandalay Model to Other Historical Capital Cities of the Burmese Kingdom |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/journalofjsce/9/1/9_184/_article |journal=Journal of JSCE |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=184–197 |doi=10.2208/journalofjsce.9.1_184|doi-access=free }} It was reconstructed in 1999{{cite web |url=http://culturemyanmar.org/pages/doa_royal_palace.html |title=Ministry of Culture |accessdate=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803074057/http://culturemyanmar.org/pages/doa_royal_palace.html |archivedate=2012-08-03 }} 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 200m long city walls.