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Qiantang River Bridge 钱塘江大桥Qiántáng Jiāng Dàqiáo
National heritage site · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Qiantang River Bridge
A double-deck road and rail bridge across the Qiantang River, designed by the engineer Mao Yisheng and built between 1934 and 1937 as the first such bridge designed and built in China. Less than three months after it opened it was blown up by the Chinese side to slow the Japanese advance, and it was fully repaired only in 1953; it still carries trains on the lower deck and road traffic above, and a memorial hall near its northern approach tells its story.
How to get to Qiantang River Bridge
Beside Liuhe Pagoda on the north bank of the Qiantang River, about 5 km south of West Lake.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 under 10 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 under 10 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Liuhe Pagoda 六和塔 (under 10 km), Zhakou White Pagoda 闸口白塔 (under 10 km), Former Hangchow University (Zhijiang Campus) 之江大学旧址 (under 10 km), Yuhuangshan South Fund Town 玉皇山南基金小镇 (under 10 km), Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum 南宋官窑博物馆 (under 10 km), Southern Hills Carvings (Ciyunling, Yanxia Cave, Tianlong Temple) 西湖南山造像 (under 10 km).
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