Historic site · Phường Bến Thành (former District 1), Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City
Independence Palace
Dinh Độc Lập
The Independence Palace (Dinh Độc Lập), also called the Reunification Palace, is the former presidential palace of South Vietnam at 135 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa in central Ho Chi Minh City, kept as a special national historic site.
Why go
The Independence Palace stands on the site of the Norodom Palace, which the site's own history says was begun in 1868 as the residence of the French Governor of Cochinchina; the present palace is the former presidential palace of South Vietnam. Its operator's site says the palace was recognised as a national historical and cultural site in 1976 and classified in 2009 among the first ten special national historical sites, and that it is managed by the Reunification Hall (Hội trường Thống Nhất), a public non-business unit under the Government Office. The site lists two addresses, 135 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa and 106 Nguyễn Du, in Bến Thành ward, and says tickets can be booked online. Its tour pages describe free exploration with panels and room nameplates, which it says replaced the former group-tour format, plus an audio guide in ten languages and a guided tour booked at the information counter or by phone, both for a fee set by the site.
Near Independence Palace
Museum
War Remnants Museum
The War Remnants Museum (Bảo tàng Chứng tích Chiến tranh) is a war museum in the former District 3 of central Ho Chi Minh City, with galleries of artefacts and photographs and military hardware shown in its courtyard.
0 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Church
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon
The Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon is the twin-spired Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City at the head of Đồng Khởi Street in central Ho Chi Minh City.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Market
Bến Thành Market
Bến Thành Market is the covered market completed in 1914 facing Quách Thị Trang Square in central Ho Chi Minh City, run by a public market management board.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Historic site
Saigon Central Post Office
The Saigon Central Post Office is a working post office opposite the Notre-Dame cathedral in central Ho Chi Minh City, in a building Wikidata dates to 1891.
1 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ