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Xinglong Pagoda 兴隆塔Xīnglóng Tǎ
National heritage site · Jining, Shandong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jining
- Region
- Shandong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Xinglong Pagoda
A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda 54 m high in the north-east of Yanzhou's old town, standing in the grounds of the Yanzhou Museum. The tower is built in two stages, a thick lower body of seven storeys with internal galleries and steps and six much narrower storeys above, which gives it a pagoda-on-a-pagoda profile; first built in 602 under the Sui, the present tower dates from the Song and was repaired after a 17th-century earthquake. Excavation of its underground chamber in 2008 produced a stone casket, a gilded silver coffin and a gold relic bottle, and the museum shows local archaeology including Neolithic pottery from nearby sites.
How to get to Xinglong Pagoda
In the north-east of the old town of Yanzhou, about 27 km north-east of Jining city centre; the pagoda stands in the grounds of Yanzhou Museum, which is closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Qufu, Hometown of Confucius 曲阜三孔 20 km
The temple, mansion and forest cemetery of Confucius and his descendants
Also within 20 km: Yanzhou Catholic Church 兖州天主教堂 (under 10 km), Jinkou Dam 金口坝 (under 10 km), Former Qufu Normal School 曲阜师范学校旧址 (10 km), Confucius Six Arts City 孔子六艺城 (10 km), Temple of Yan Hui 颜庙 (20 km), Cemetery of Mencius' Mother 孟母林 (20 km).
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