Hanoi

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Hanoi 157.jpg (39775 bytes) Formerly the French Ministry of Information this elegant  colonial building now houses the Museum Of Fine Arts .  The collection is mostly contemporary folk art, engravings, sculpture, and lacquer ware.
Here on the second floor are exhibited traditional crafts. Hanoi 355.jpg (39059 bytes)
Hanoi 397.jpg (39638 bytes) Temple of Literature

Statue of Confucius to whom the temple was dedicated. In 1070. 

Seven years later the School of The Elite of the Nation, Vietnam's first university was established, to educate the sons of Mandarins.
Eighty two surviving stelae sitting on the backs of stone tortoise, record the names, place of birth and scholastic record of it's doctoral students from 1442-1779 Hanoi 398.jpg (39104 bytes)
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