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Qibao Old Town 七宝古镇Qībǎo Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Qibao Old Town
An old market town on the Puhuitang River in western Minhang, which had taken shape by the Northern Song and is usually said to be named after its Qibao Temple. Its old streets on both sides of the river are now a busy shopping and snack street, with small attractions such as the memorial hall of the painter Zhang Chongren, Hergé's friend and the model for Chang in The Adventures of Tintin, and a house devoted to Qibao's fighting crickets.
How to get to Qibao Old Town
In Qibao, Minhang District, about 550 m from Qibao station (Line 9).
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 10 km
Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East - Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 20 km
A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple - The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 20 km
1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other - Lujiazui 陆家嘴 20 km
Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
Also within 20 km: Minhang Cultural Park 闵行文化公园 (under 10 km), Shanghai Zoo 上海动物园 (under 10 km), Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum 宋庆龄陵园 (under 10 km), Shanghai Botanical Garden 上海植物园 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km).
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