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Wenlan Pavilion 文澜阁Wénlán Gé
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 Wenlan Pavilion
One of the seven imperial libraries built to hold the Qianlong Emperor's great manuscript collection, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1783 and the only one of the three southern libraries still standing. Rebuilt in 1880 after the Taiping war, it is a small walled garden with a rockery, a pond with a tall standing stone and the two-storey library hall, now part of the Gushan branch of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum.
How to get to Wenlan Pavilion
On the south side of Gushan (Solitary Hill) on the north shore of West Lake, a short walk from the Bai Causeway.
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: Historic Buildings of the Zhejiang Library 浙江图书馆旧址 (under 10 km), Xiling Seal Engravers' Society 西泠印社 (under 10 km), 1954 Constitution Drafting Site 五四宪法历史资料陈列馆 (under 10 km), West Lake Expo Museum 西湖博览会博物馆 (under 10 km), Yue Fei Temple and Tomb 岳王庙 (under 10 km), Baochu Pagoda 保俶塔 (under 10 km).
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