西安是中国乃至世界范围内的文化及旅游名城，其历史及人文积淀极为深厚，在海内外知名度较高。其是中国历史上第一个被称为京的城市，拥有着3,100多年的建城史以及1,070余年的建都史。历史上曾有包括周、西汉、隋、唐等在内的多个繁荣朝代在此建都，从而令西安见证了中国历史上开放、外向、尚武、繁荣的顶峰时期图景，并留下巨量遗存。西安目前有两项六处世界文化遗产，也是陆上丝绸之路起点城市。西安主城区至今仍保留有完整的明代城墙及城门、护城河及桥、角楼、瓮城、箭楼等设施，在市内及周边散布着秦始皇陵、汉阳陵、汉长安城遗址、唐大明宫遗址等大量古代文化遗存，具有极高的考古研究价值。
Xi'an is a famous cultural and tourist city in China and even in the world. It has a very profound historical and cultural heritage and is well-known at home and abroad. It is the first city in Chinese history to be called Beijing. It has a history of more than 3,100 years of city construction and more than 1,070 years of capital construction. In history, many prosperous dynasties including Zhou, Western Han, Sui, and Tang built their capitals here, which made Xi'an witness the peak period of openness, extroversion, martial arts, and prosperity in Chinese history, and left a huge amount of relics. Xi'an currently has two of the six world cultural heritage sites and is also the starting point of the Silk Road. The main urban area of ​​Xi'an still retains complete Ming Dynasty city walls and gates, moats and bridges, corner towers, urn cities, arrow towers and other facilities. In and around the city, there are a large number of ancient cultural relics such as the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the Han Yang Mausoleum, the ruins of the Han Chang'an City, and the ruins of the Tang Daming Palace, which have extremely high archaeological research value.