Potala Palace
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Thirteen stories of buildings 鈥� containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues 鈥� soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of Marpo Ri, the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about 1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor.
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