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Yongtong Bridge 永通桥Yǒngtōng Qiáo
National heritage site · Shijiazhuang, Hebei
- Time needed
- 30–60 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shijiazhuang
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yongtong Bridge
A single-span stone arch bridge on the west side of Zhao County town, known locally as the Small Stone Bridge and built on the same open-spandrel plan as the Anji Bridge a few kilometres to the south. It is admired for the relief carvings on its parapets, arch faces and piers, and a local saying credits the big bridge with engineering and the small one with ornament. Its date is debated: stones found beneath it in 1986 point to about 765 in the Tang, while older accounts give the Jin dynasty, and a small park has been laid out around it.
How to get to Yongtong Bridge
On the west edge of Zhao County town, about 4 km north of the Anji Bridge and about 39 km south-east of central Shijiazhuang.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Zhaozhou Dharani Pillar 赵州陀罗尼经幢 (under 10 km), Daguan Stele (Emperor Huizong's School Rules) 大观圣作之碑 (under 10 km), Pagoda of Bailin Temple 柏林寺塔 (under 10 km), Anji Bridge (Zhaozhou Bridge) 赵州桥 (under 10 km).
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