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Shangli Ancient Town 上里古镇Shànglǐ Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · Ya'an, Sichuan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Ya'an
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Shangli Ancient Town
A historic market town in the hills north of Ya'an, with lanes of old timber-framed houses beside its streams, now run as a tourist village. Its sights include carved stone memorial archways and the Han family mansion, built in 1824 and protected as a Sichuan provincial heritage site, and Wujia village within the town was among the first places named Chinese Traditional Villages in 2012.
How to get to Shangli Ancient Town
About 25 km north of central Ya'an, roughly 40 minutes by road.
Nearby
- Mount Mengding 蒙顶山 10 km
Misty tea terraces and an imperial tea garden where tea growing is said to have begun
Also within 20 km: Longmen Ancient Town & Qinglong Temple 龙门古镇 (under 10 km), Mingshan Confucian Temple 名山文庙 (10 km), Bifengxia Gorge & Panda Base 碧峰峡 (10 km), Pingxiang Tower & Hanjiang Old Town 汉姜古城 (10 km), Stone Pagoda Temple 石塔寺 (10 km), Fan Min Que 樊敏阙 (20 km).
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