In Vung Tau, White Palace is an ideal recreation area that still preserve many historical values through ancient architecture and relics as well, attracting a lot of tourists coming here to admire such an amazing architecture associated with Vietnamese heroic pasts against French colonial. The beautiful Vung Tau City is not only famous for its beautiful beaches with clear blue water, and fine white sand, located on the side of the big mountain of Vung Tau City at 4 Tran Phu Street, Ward 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
White palace was built from 1898 to 1902, used to be the resort for General Governor of Indochina, Emperor Bao Dai and the presidents of Vietnam. This was also the place where the French colonial government housed King Thanh Thai from September 12, 1907 to 1916.
Currently, Bach Dinh is used as a museum to display a collection of rare ceramics from the Qing Dynasty from the ancient ships in the area. The front of White palace faces the sea, and its back leans on the mountain, White Palace wears the magnificent beauty with 19m in height, and 25m in length, covering by a white romantic beauty. When visiting the white palace, tourists can see the French architecture from the shape to the very artistic decoration. The basement of the villa is for cooking, the ground floor is used for reception. The ground floor also decorates the ancient artifacts used to decorate the interior such as the bouquet, the royal book of the year 1921, and Phuc – Loc – Tho statuses. The bold French architecture also performs in the window architecture. Each window has a different view, overlooking the scenic surroundings.
Materials for decorating White Palace is mainly porcelain enamel. When walking around tourists will see on each wall, the face of beautiful European women, and bird wings spreading out the sparkling silver dots as the dragon. Especially tourists are not surprised with 8 bustiers of porcelain enamel, the style of ancient Greek art surrounds the three walls of the mansion. At dawn or sunset, the sun is shining on the statue creating the sparkling, and magnificent appearance.
Bach Dinh not only attract tourists by sophisticated and elegant architecture but also the romantic scene here. Coming to the White Palace, tourists are lost in the ancient castle between the mysterious forests. In the rainy season, the forest surrounding the palace are covered by thousands of leaves y. In the fall flowers on the road to White Palace are blooming with red, white, rosy flowers.
