The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines “Xanadu” as an idyllic, beautiful place (after Xanadu, a place in “Kublai Khan,” a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge). This place is Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, the capital of the Yuan dynasty. Poet Coleridge’s poem was inspired by the depiction of Xanadu in The Travels of Marco Polo. Due to this poem, Xanadu became the prototype of the image of “a dreamlike Oriental place,” and became a cultural symbol spread in the fields of literature, music, architecture and other forms of art in the world.