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Old Guangwu Fortress 广武城Guǎngwǔ Chéng
National heritage site · Shuozhou, Shanxi
- Time needed
- About 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shuozhou
- Region
- Shanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Old Guangwu Fortress
A Ming frontier fortress town in Old Guangwu village, a few kilometres from Yanmen Pass, whose rectangular earth walls, faced with brick in the Ming rebuilding, still enclose the village. There are gate towers on the east, south and west sides, and a lived-in village of courtyard houses inside the walls. It lies about 2 km west-north-west of the Moon Gate on the Guangwu Great Wall, so the two are easily combined.
How to get to Old Guangwu Fortress
About 35 km south of Shanyin, in Old Guangwu village, which is lived in, so visits are to the walls and gates.
Nearby
- Yanmen Pass 雁门关 under 10 km
A Ming fortress gate on the Inner Great Wall, its ramparts running up the mountain ridges - Yingxian Wooden Pagoda 应县木塔 50 km
A Liao-dynasty timber pagoda of 1056, five storeys outside and nine within
Also within 20 km: Guangwu Han Tombs 广武汉墓群 (under 10 km), Guangwu Great Wall 广武长城 (under 10 km).
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