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Hua'ao Barracks Site 花岙兵营遗址Huā'ào Bīngyíng Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Ningbo, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Ningbo
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Hua'ao Barracks Site
Dry-stone army camps built from 1646 on remote Hua'ao Island by the Ming loyalist commanders Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen during their resistance to the Qing, the best preserved of their island bases. The two main camps at Gaotu'ao and Zhijishan keep walls, gates, rows of barrack rooms and tunnels, and a memorial hall to Zhang Huangyan opened at Gaotu'ao in 2007. The island also has a stone forest of columnar volcanic rock and traditional salt pans.
How to get to Hua'ao Barracks Site
On Hua'ao Island off the southern tip of Xiangshan County: drive about 2 hours from Ningbo to Jingaoyi Wharf, take the car ferry across, and use the island shuttle buses between sights.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Wushan Grottoes, Ninghai 伍山石窟 (20 km), Shipu Fishing Port Ancient Town 石浦渔港古城 (20 km).
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