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Anping Bridge 安平桥Ānpíng Qiáo
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Quanzhou, Fujian
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Quanzhou
- Region
- Fujian
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Anping Bridge
A granite beam bridge more than 2 km long across a tidal inlet between Anhai and Shuitou, completed in 1151 after 13 years' work and regarded as the longest ancient stone bridge surviving in China; its length gave it its other name, the Five-Li Bridge. Paved with stone slabs up to 11 m long laid on hundreds of stone piers, it has rest pavilions with Song guardian statues, small pagodas and a white hexagonal pagoda at its eastern end, and its surroundings have been laid out as a park. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site.
How to get to Anping Bridge
Between Anhai town (Jinjiang) and Shuitou town (Nan'an), about 35 km south-west of central Quanzhou by road; local buses serve the Anhai end.
Nearby
- Gulangyu Island 鼓浪屿 50 km
A car-free island of old villas, banyan trees and drifting piano music
Also within 20 km: Longshan Temple, Anhai 安海龙山寺 (under 10 km), Tomb of Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) 郑成功墓 (under 10 km), Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum 英良石材自然历史博物馆 (under 10 km), Nantian Temple Stone Buddhas 南天寺 (under 10 km), Zhongxiandi Mansion, Shijing 中宪第 (under 10 km), Cao'an 草庵 (10 km).
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