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Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park) 金陵兵工厂旧址Jīnlíng Bīnggōngchǎng Jiùzhǐ
National heritage site · Nanjing, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Nanjing
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park)
Founded by Li Hongzhang in 1865 as the Jinling Machinery Bureau, at the time China's largest arsenal, it made guns and ammunition for his Huai Army, was renamed the Jinling Arsenal in 1929 and moved its production to Chongqing in 1937. Its brick workshops from the late Qing and Republican years survive, among them the original machine hall of 1865, and since 2007 they have been reused as the Chenguang 1865 science and technology creative park.
How to get to Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park)
On Yingtian Avenue in Qinhuai District, about 1.3 km east of Zhonghuamen station on Metro Line 1.
Nearby
- City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 under 10 km
The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate - Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 under 10 km
Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai - Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 under 10 km
A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb
Also within 20 km: Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park 大报恩寺遗址公园 (under 10 km), Yuhuatai (Rain Flower Terrace) 雨花台 (under 10 km), Zhan Garden 瞻园 (under 10 km), Former Residence of Gan Xi 甘熙故居 (under 10 km), Nanjing Science and Technology Museum 南京科技馆 (under 10 km), Chaotian Palace 朝天宫 (under 10 km).
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