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Lingxiao Pagoda 凌霄塔Língxiāo Tǎ
National heritage site · Shijiazhuang, Hebei
- Time needed
- About an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shijiazhuang
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Lingxiao Pagoda
A nine-storey, eight-sided pagoda about 41 m high, the main surviving building of the former Tianning Temple in the old town of Zhengding. The lower storeys are brick and the upper ones timber, with a timber central pillar running up the inside, a structure that is uncommon among China's surviving pagodas. A crypt found beneath it in 1982 showed that it was begun in the Tang dynasty between 756 and 779, and it was rebuilt in 1045 and again in 1141.
How to get to Lingxiao Pagoda
In the old town of Zhengding, about 12 km north-north-east of central Shijiazhuang.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Zhengding Prefectural Confucian Temple 正定府文庙 (under 10 km), Stele of the Prince of Qinghe (Li Baochen Stele) 大唐清河郡王纪功载政之颂碑 (under 10 km), Kaiyuan Temple, Zhengding 开元寺 (under 10 km), Liang Ancestral Hall, Zhengding 正定梁氏宗祠 (under 10 km), Longxing Temple 隆兴寺 (under 10 km), Rongguo Mansion, Zhengding 荣国府 (under 10 km).
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