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Grand Palace is a complex of buildings located in central Bangkok in Thailand. The construction of the building began in 1782, during the reign of King Rama I, when he moved the capital from Thonburi to Bangkok. Over the years the building was expanded several times, with the construction of new buildings, and changed with the demolition or renovation of obsolete buildings. The inner courtyard is located to the north, where there are buildings where access was allowed only to women and to the sovereign. In addition to the wives, concubines and daughters of the monarch lived there all female staff of the various buildings of the palace and even the guards were women.

Inside the courtyard, in the south, whose buildings had housed the offices of the ministries, the Royal Guard and the Treasury. The central courtyard, where you can find the most interesting buildings, among which we should mention the Chakri Mahaprasad Hall, where the king met and gave the court hearings, was built by Rama V in a mixed style of the Italian Renaissance and the classical Thai , which houses the Throne Room. The complex of Wat Phra Kaew (which means temple of the Emerald Buddha), a collection of religious buildings of different styles and eras that serves as a royal chapel. All ‘inside of his main temple has preserved the Emerald Buddha.