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Feiying Pagoda and the Gucheng Scenic Area 飞英塔Fēiyīng Tǎ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Huzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Huzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Feiying Pagoda and the Gucheng Scenic Area
Huzhou's 'pagoda within a pagoda': a stone relic pagoda of 884–894 enclosed from the Northern Song in an outer brick-and-timber pagoda, rebuilt after a lightning fire in the Southern Song and restored in the 1980s. It stands in Feiying Park in the old city, one of five sights of the Gucheng scenic area with Lotus Villa, the garden of the Yuan painter Zhao Mengfu rebuilt in 1986, the China Huzhou Writing Brush Museum and the former home of the revolutionary Chen Qimei.
How to get to Feiying Pagoda and the Gucheng Scenic Area
In Huzhou's old city, about 8 km (20 minutes by taxi) from Huzhou station; Lotus Villa and the brush museum are 1.7 km to the south.
Nearby
- Wuzhen Water Town 乌镇 40 km
Stone bridges and lantern-lit canals in a water town that's best after dark
Also within 20 km: Pangong Bridge 潘公桥 (under 10 km), Chaoyin Bridge 潮音桥 (under 10 km), Tomb of Chen Qimei (Chen Yingshi) 陈英士墓 (under 10 km), Daochang Hill Prayer Inscription 道场山祈年题记 (under 10 km), Huzhou Silk Town (Xishanyang) 湖州丝绸小镇 (under 10 km), Qianshanyang Site 钱山漾遗址 (under 10 km).
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