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Yanzhou Mountain Fortress 燕州城山城Yānzhōuchéng Shānchéng
National heritage site · Liaoyang, Liaoning
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Liaoyang
- Region
- Liaoning
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yanzhou Mountain Fortress
Yanzhou, once called Baiyan City, is a Goguryeo mountain fortress begun in 403 on Shicheng Hill above the Taizi River, which the Tang army took in 645. Walls of dressed blue-grey stone, with nine bastions on the north and west sides and a cliff on the south, enclose a site roughly 480 m by 440 m with a gate site, a reservoir, a well and a stone lookout platform at the highest point. Archaeologists worked here from 2009 to 2017, and the provincial heritage department calls it a representative late Goguryeo fortress in Liaoning.
How to get to Yanzhou Mountain Fortress
On Shicheng Hill south-east of Guantun village in Xidayao town, Dengta, about 27 km east of Liaoyang railway station in a straight line; there are no documented visitor facilities, so check locally before going.
Nearby
- Mukden Palace 沈阳故宫 60 km
The Manchu palace where the Qing dynasty was proclaimed, years before it took Beijing
Also within 20 km: Ginseng Valley Forest Park 人参谷森林公园 (10 km), Liaoyang Lei Feng Memorial Hall 辽阳雷锋纪念馆 (20 km).
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