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Xingguo Temple Pagoda 兴国寺塔Xīngguó Sì Tǎ
National heritage site · Wuxi, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- Under an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Wuxi
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Xingguo Temple Pagoda
An octagonal brick pagoda in Xingguo Park in the south-west of Jiangyin's old town, first built in the Taiping Xingguo era of the Northern Song (976–984) and raised from seven to nine storeys during a Ming repair. A fire in 1817 burned away its wooden eaves and finial, leaving the brush-shaped brick shaft that locals call the Wenbi ('writing brush') Pagoda, and in 1925 a shell fired from the Huangshan forts during a warlord war damaged its top storeys; it was strengthened in 1985 and 2005.
How to get to Xingguo Temple Pagoda
In Xingguo Park in central Jiangyin, which is about 40 km north of Wuxi by road or the riverside high-speed railway.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Shiyuan Garden, Jiangyin 适园 (under 10 km), Jiangsu Education Commissioner's Office, Jiangyin 江苏学政衙署 (under 10 km), Former Jiangyin Fortress Headquarters 江阴要塞司令部旧址 (under 10 km), Jiangyin Riverside Fortress Scenic Area 江阴滨江要塞 (under 10 km), Xiangshan Scenic Area, Zhangjiagang 香山 (10 km).
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