Presidential Palace - Hanoi - Vietnam

Presidential PalaceOriginally, here stood the palace of the French governor of Cochin China, built in 1868. Later the building was the official residence of the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. The palace was bombed in February 1962 by two South Vietnamese fighter planes in an attempt to assassinate Diem. The president and his family hid in the cellar and remained unscathed. The original building was then replaced by a new one, which now is the Hall of Reunification. Inside the new building everything was left the way it was found on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces took Saigon.

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Asia: Vietnam: Hanoi