The Marco Polo Bridge is a ten-span medieval bridge across the Yongding River on the southwestern outskirts of the urban area of ​​modern Beijing, 15 km from the historic city center. It is believed that this is the same building that captured the imagination of the Venetian traveler Marco Polo in the 13th century.

The bridge over the river, which at that time was called Lugou, was built from solid granite in 1189-1192. It was repeatedly updated, in particular in 1698. The bridge is 266.5 meters long and 9.3 meters wide. The main decoration of the bridge are ancient statues of lions, and on the head, paws and other parts of the body of each statue you can see miniature lion cubs. When the bridge was opened, there were 627 lion images on it, at present there are 482 of them (according to other estimates - 496).