The capital before this one
Portuguese, Japanese and Persian streets in one river bend, and the year it burned.
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3 guides. Everything on the site is in the archive.
- Portuguese, Japanese and Persian streets in one bend of the riverSeventeenth-century Ayutthaya housed foreign communities in distinct quarters downstream of the palace, each with its own religious buildings.
- The capital burned and the court moved downriverAyutthaya fell in 1767 and the Siamese capital relocated south, first to Thonburi and then across the river to Bangkok.
- A tree grew around a sandstone head and kept itThe bodhi roots at Wat Mahathat closed around a fallen Buddha head. It is the most photographed object in the city and nobody records when it fell.