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Tong Pass 潼关古城Tóngguān Gǔchéng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Weinan, Shaanxi
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Weinan
- Region
- Shaanxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Tong Pass
Tongguan, the fortified pass first built in 196 AD where the Wei River flows into the Yellow River, guarded the eastern approach to the Guanzhong plain and its capitals. Its walled town was demolished for the Sanmenxia Dam reservoir around 1960, but remains of the Han and Ming walled towns, the Ming Lower South Gate and the old Shuipo Lane survive. Since 2011 a tourism development on the hill to the east has added squares, old-style shopping streets and a rebuilt Shanhe Yilan gate tower, which since 2018 has housed the Tongguan County Museum.
How to get to Tong Pass
Beside the Gangkou exit of the G30 expressway north of Tongguan county town, about 25 minutes by road east of Huashan North station, from which buses run to Gangkou.
Nearby
- Mount Hua 华山 20 km
Sheer granite peaks, stairways cut into cliffs and a notorious plank walk - Yongle Palace 永乐宫 40 km
Yuan-dynasty Taoist murals in a temple moved piece by piece to make way for a reservoir
Also within 20 km: Xihoudu 西侯度遗址 (10 km), Xiyue Temple 西岳庙 (20 km).
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