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Southern Song Capital Lin'an & Deshou Palace Museum 临安城遗址Lín'ān Chéng Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hangzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Southern Song Capital Lin'an & Deshou Palace Museum
Remains of Lin'an, capital of the Southern Song from 1138 to 1276, lie buried beneath central Hangzhou, the palace area on Phoenix Hill more than 3 m down, with an imperial street that ran north through the city. The main place to see them is the Deshou Palace Site Museum, opened in 2022 over the excavated palace where the emperors Gaozong and Xiaozong lived after abdicating, with a reconstructed hall and digital displays over the foundations. Nearby, the Imperial Ancestral Temple site is a public park with column bases on show, and site displays along Zhongshan Road show excavated sections of the Imperial Street.
How to get to Southern Song Capital Lin'an & Deshou Palace Museum
In central Hangzhou east of Wu Hill: the Deshou Palace museum is on Wangjiang Road, and the Imperial Ancestral Temple park is under 1 km to the south.
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: Qinghefang Historic District 清河坊 (under 10 km), Hu Qing Yu Tang & Hu Xueyan's Former Residence 胡庆余堂 (under 10 km), Mahakala Carving at Baocheng Temple 宝成寺麻曷葛剌造像 (under 10 km), Phoenix Mosque 凤凰寺 (under 10 km), Former Zhejiang Xingye Bank Building 浙江兴业银行旧址 (under 10 km), Hangzhou Confucian Temple & Forest of Steles 杭州孔庙碑林 (under 10 km).
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