Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang 太仓石拱桥Tàicāng Shígǒng Qiáo

About Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang

Five stone arch bridges built under the Yuan dynasty between 1329 and 1334, close in date and style and listed together. Three of them — Gao Bridge (1334), Zhou Bridge (1329) and Zhoujing Bridge (1330) — still cross the Zhihe canal through Taicang's old town beside Xinhua Road; the three-arched Zhou and Zhoujing bridges are the largest, Gao Bridge a single arch. The other two, Jingting and Jinji bridges, stand in Xinfeng village on the southern outskirts.

How to get to Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang

In and around the old town of Taicang, about 50 km east of central Suzhou by road or high-speed train; Gao Bridge is near the Zhang Pu residence on Ximen Street.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 40 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 40 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 40 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 40 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 40 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple

Also within 20 km: Zhang Pu Residence 张溥宅第 (under 10 km), Taicang Modern Agricultural Park (Rose Manor) 太仓现代农业园 (10 km), Shaxi Ancient Town 沙溪古镇 (10 km), Jiading Old Town (Zhouqiao) 嘉定州桥 (10 km), Shanghai International Circuit 上海国际赛车场 (20 km), Tianfei Palace, Liuhe 浏河天妃宫 (20 km).

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