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Zhoucun Ancient Commercial City 周村古商城Zhōucūn Gǔ Shāngchéng
5A scenic area · Zibo, Shandong
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Zibo
- Region
- Shandong
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area
About Zhoucun Ancient Commercial City
A preserved merchant quarter in Zhoucun District, built around Dajie (Main Street) and the silk-market and silver-market streets, with more than 50,000 sq m of Ming and Qing buildings in a 60-hectare area. Zhoucun grew into an inland trading hub and was opened as a commercial port in 1904. Today the quarter has shops, old workshops and small museums on silk, printing, tobacco and early banking, plus temple compounds and the local shaobing flatbread.
How to get to Zhoucun Ancient Commercial City
In Zhoucun District, about 19 km west of central Zibo.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Zibo Ceramics and Glass Museum 淄博陶瓷琉璃博物馆 (10 km), Wang Yuyang's Hometown, Huantai 王渔洋故里 (20 km).
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