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Quzhou Ancient City & City Walls 衢州古城Qúzhōu Gǔchéng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Quzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Quzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Quzhou Ancient City & City Walls
The historic core of Quzhou, a 3.2 km² cultural tourism zone opened in 2016 around Shuiting Gate, where the Ming–Qing city wall stands beside the Qu River, and the 'three streets and seven alleys' of old lanes lined with restored buildings, craft workshops and food stalls. Six old gates survive along with stretches of the wall that earned the city the name 'Iron Quzhou' in past sieges, and a gate tower over Shuiting Gate and a bell tower on its Ming stone base have been rebuilt. Near the gate on Xiaying Street stands the Zhou Xuanling Wang Temple, a shrine to a filial son first built in the Southern Song and rebuilt in the Ming.
How to get to Quzhou Ancient City & City Walls
In central Quzhou on the east bank of the Qu River; the Temple of Southern Confucianism is about 1 km east of Shuiting Gate.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Temple of Southern Confucianism 孔氏南宗家庙 (under 10 km), Xianyan Cave Inscriptions 仙岩洞摩崖题记 (10 km), Wu Ancestral Hall, Chetang 车塘吴氏宗祠 (10 km), Lan Clan Ancestral Hall, Beier 北二蓝氏宗祠 (10 km).
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