Guangning City, Beizhen (Drum Tower and Li Chengliang Arch) 广宁城（鼓楼与李成梁石坊）Guǎngníng Chéng (Gǔlóu Yǔ Lǐ Chéngliáng Shífāng)

About Guangning City, Beizhen (Drum Tower and Li Chengliang Arch)

Guangning was the Ming-dynasty garrison city of Beizhen, and two of its landmarks stand on the main north–south street: the Drum Tower of 1563, a two-storey tower on a brick-and-stone base pierced by a gateway, and the stone memorial arch of 1580 to the Ming frontier commander Li Chengliang, about 9 m high. A stair of 39 steps leads up to the platform of the Drum Tower, which the provincial heritage department describes as one of Beizhen's tourist sights. Most of the 7 km city wall was pulled down in the 1960s and 1970s and a ring road follows its line, but a 378 m stretch of brick wall and a 1,250 m stretch of rammed-earth wall are preserved.

How to get to Guangning City, Beizhen (Drum Tower and Li Chengliang Arch)

In the middle of Beizhen town, about 78 km north-east of central Jinzhou, with the Chongxing Temple twin pagodas about 1 km to the north-north-east.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Twin Pagodas of Chongxing Temple 崇兴寺双塔 (under 10 km), Beizhen Temple 北镇庙 (under 10 km), Yiwulü Mountain 医巫闾山 (under 10 km), Dachaoyang Hot Spring Resort, Beizhen 大朝阳温泉山城 (under 10 km), Daluhua, Yiwulü Mountain 医巫闾山大芦花 (20 km).

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