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Shou County Old Town and City Wall 寿县古城Shòuxiàn Gǔchéng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Huainan, Anhui
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Huainan
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Shou County Old Town and City Wall
Shou County's old town, the Shouchun of history and the last capital of the state of Chu, is still ringed by its city wall, rebuilt in the Southern Song with bricks stamped 'Jiankang' that can still be seen. All four gates, Binyang (east), Tongfei (south), Dinghu (west) and Jinghuai (north), keep their barbican enclosures, and the wall held back the Huai River floods of 1991 while the town sheltered refugees. Inside are the Confucius Temple, a Ming–Qing mosque and Bao'en Temple, and the low Bagong hills rise just north of the town.
How to get to Shou County Old Town and City Wall
In Shouchun town, Shou County, about 25 km west of central Huainan by road; Shou County station on the Shangqiu–Hefei–Hangzhou high-speed railway is about 3 km north-east of the old town.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Shou County Mosque 寿县清真寺 (under 10 km), Shou County Confucius Temple 寿县孔庙 (under 10 km), Anhui Chu Culture Museum (Shou County Museum) 安徽楚文化博物馆 (under 10 km), Bagong Mountain Scenic Area 八公山 (under 10 km), Jiaogang Lake National Wetland Park 焦岗湖 (10 km), Jiaogang Lake Film and Television Base 焦岗湖影视城 (20 km).
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