Shangdu

Shangdu , also known as Xanadu (; Mongolian: ), was the capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China, before he decided to move his throne to the Jin dynasty capital of Zhongdu , which he renamed Khanbaliq, present-day Beijing. Shangdu then became his summer capital. Shangdu (Xanadu) was visited by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo in about 1275, and was destroyed in 1369 by the Ming army under Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1797 historical accounts of the city inspired the famous poem Kubla Khan by the English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Xanadu may refer to:

• Xanadu, China or Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan empire
• "Kubla Khan", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which popularised the name Xanadu for Shangdu