Listed sites in Anhui 安徽

311 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 52 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.

Listed sites: 311
Rated 5A: 10
Rated 4A: 210
National heritage: 131
Region: Anhui

The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.

5A scenic areas in Anhui

Bali River Scenic Area 八里河 5A scenic area · on the map
Bali River is a lakeside park in Balihe town, Yingshang County, built by local farmers from 1992 on a flood-prone marsh near where the Ying River meets the Huai, and opened in 1996 as a 'farmers' park'.
Caishi Rock 采石矶 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Caishi Rock is the cliff-bound foot of Cuiluo Hill where it juts into the Yangtze on the south-western edge of Ma'anshan, counted first of the river's three famous rocks and long a strategic crossing, where Song forces led by Yu Yunwen defeated an invading Jin army in 1161.
Fantawild Resort, Wuhu 芜湖方特 5A scenic area · on the map
A cluster of Fantawild theme parks in Jiujiang District on Wuhu's north-eastern side, run by the Huaqiang Fantawild group.
Huizhou Ancient City (Shexian) 徽州古城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The old town of Shexian (Huicheng), seat of Huizhou prefecture from the Song to the Qing, and the core of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone, whose other parts are Tangyue, Tangmo, Chengkan and the Qiankou Ming houses.
Longchuan Village 龙川 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Longchuan is a Hu-clan village on the Dengyuan River 11 km east of Jixi county town, where the Ming general and official Hu Zongxian was born in 1512.
Mount Langya 琅琊山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A range of wooded hills on the south-western edge of Chuzhou, rising to 321 m, made famous by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, who governed Chuzhou in the 1040s and wrote 'The Old Toper's Pavilion' about the Zuiweng Pavilion in its valley (the present pavilion is Qing).
Mount Tianzhu 天柱山 5A scenic area
A granite mountain in Qianshan whose main summit, Tianzhu Peak (1,489 m), stands like a pillar above more than 50 lesser peaks; its old name, Wan Shan, gave Anhui its one-character abbreviation.
Sanhe Ancient Town 三河古镇 5A scenic area
A river town where the Fengle, Hangbu and Xiaonan rivers meet near Chao Lake, scene of the Taiping army's 1858 victory over the Xiang Army at the Battle of Sanhe.
Tiantangzhai 天堂寨 5A scenic area · on the map
Tiantangzhai, at 1,729 m the second-highest peak of the Dabie Mountains, stands on the Anhui–Hubei border on the watershed between the Huai and Yangtze rivers.
Wanfo Lake 万佛湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Wanfo Lake is the scenic name of Longhekou Reservoir, built by around 100,000 labourers mobilised from across Shucheng County from 1958 and largely finished in 1970 as a flood-control and irrigation source for the Pishihang irrigation district.

By city

Anqing (32) · Bengbu (9) · Bozhou (11) · Chizhou (26) · Chuzhou (12) · Fuyang (10) · Hefei (31) · Huaibei (7) · Huainan (11) · Huangshan (53) · Lu'an (28) · Ma'anshan (11) · Suzhou (8) · Tongling (11) · Wuhu (19) · Xuancheng (32)

Anqing 32 sites

Mount Tianzhu 天柱山 5A scenic area
A granite mountain in Qianshan whose main summit, Tianzhu Peak (1,489 m), stands like a pillar above more than 50 lesser peaks; its old name, Wan Shan, gave Anhui its one-character abbreviation.
Baimatan Rafting Area 白马潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside scenic area in Shuihou town below the western side of Mount Tianzhu, run mainly for rafting.
Baiya Fortress 白崖寨 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain-top stronghold on Baiya Shan in Zhifeng township, first built at the end of the Yuan dynasty and enlarged in the late Ming and late Qing.
Dabie Mountains Rainbow Waterfall 大别山彩虹瀑布 4A scenic area · on the map
A waterfall at Monkey Cliff in Huangwei village, northern Yuexi county, where a stream rising on Baima Peak, the highest summit of the Dabie Mountains, drops nearly 100 metres.
Duxiu Mountain 独秀山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill in Huangdun town, Huaining county, from which Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, took his pen name.
Duxiu Park and Tomb of Chen Duxiu 独秀园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park in the northern outskirts of Anqing built around the tomb of Chen Duxiu, a leader of the New Culture Movement, founder of the magazine New Youth and a founder and early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who died in 1942.
Feiqi Zhai 飞旗寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area around the peak of Feiqi Zhai in Lianyun township, west of Yuexi county town in the Dabie Mountains.
Five Thousand Years Culture Park 五千年文博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern cultural theme park on the hills at Taihu county town, built to showcase Chinese history and folk art rather than an old site.
Huating Lake 花亭湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A large reservoir in the hills north of Taihu county town, formed by the Hualiangting Dam, which was begun in 1958 and largely completed in 1976; it is now a national scenic area.
Kongcheng Old Street 孔城老街 4A scenic area · on the map
An old market street in Kongcheng town that grew in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a river port between the Chaohu Lake region and the Yangtze.
Linghu Park 菱湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Linghu (Water Chestnut Lake) and the gardens around it form a large public park in the centre of Anqing, with pavilions, bridges and lawns along the water.
Miaodao Mountain 妙道山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park high in the Dabie Mountains of western Yuexi county, at the end of the G318 'Cloud Road' drive that also serves Mingtang Mountain and Tianxia Gorge.
Mingtang Mountain 明堂山 4A scenic area · on the map
A three-peaked mountain of the Dabie range in Hetu town, western Yuexi, whose main summit reaches 1,563 m; legend says it is named after the ritual hall (mingtang) set up here when Emperor Wu of Han honoured nearby Mount Tianzhu.
Qingyun Gorge 青云峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A river valley in Huangwei town in the Dabie Mountains of northern Yuexi county, developed as a scenic area whose main attraction is summer rafting.
Shangu Liuquan Cliff Inscriptions 山谷流泉 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A stream gully at the southern foot of Mount Tianzhu, beside Sanzu Temple, whose boulders and rock walls carry several hundred inscriptions from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, most of them along a stretch of under 300 metres.
Shilian Cave National Forest Park 石莲洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the hills on the western edge of Susong county town, named after Shilian (Stone Lotus) Cave.
Tianlong Pass 天龙关 4A scenic area · on the map
A narrow, steep-sided gorge in Shuihou village on the western flank of Mount Tianzhu, named for its winding course, likened to a dragon flying up to heaven.
Tianxia Gorge 天峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge in Hetu town, western Yuexi, on the southern slope of the watershed between the Yangtze and Huai rivers, with nine waterfalls of more than 30 metres along its streams.
Tianxian Gorge 天仙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain gorge in Tianzhu village, Shuihou town, close to the main Mount Tianzhu scenic area, opened in 2018 as a leisure area of streams, pools and highland village scenery.
Tianyuewan Hot Spring Resort 天悦湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring and wellness resort in Yuexi county town, built around a hot-spring park with a cluster of hotels.
Tianzhu Grand Canyon 天柱大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A steep valley on the south-eastern side of Mount Tianzhu, next to the main peak area, where a stream drops more than 200 metres through a chain of waterfalls; the highest, Tongtian Falls, falls about 100 metres.
Wanguang Garden and Taiping Pagoda 皖光苑 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A landscaped museum park in Meicheng, the centre of Qianshan, home to the Qianshan Museum and to memorial exhibitions on the novelist Zhang Henshui and on Cheng Changgeng, one of the founders of Peking opera.
Wulong Creek, Dalong Mountain 大龙山乌龙溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded stream valley on the south-eastern side of Dalong Mountain National Forest Park, in the hills just north of Anqing city.
Xizi Lake 嬉子湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural lake and wetland scenic area in Xizihu town, south-east Tongcheng, covering about 71 km², more than half of it water.
Fayun Temple Pagoda 法云寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty brick pagoda in Qianfota village, Xiangchang town, the main survivor of the Fayun Temple that once stood here.
Nanguan Mosque, Anqing 安庆南关清真寺 National heritage site · on the map
A mosque in the southern part of Anqing's old city, near the Yangtze riverfront, whose Qing-dynasty buildings were listed as a national heritage site in 2013.
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Anqing 安庆天主堂 National heritage site · on the map
A Catholic church in Anqing's old city, built by French Jesuits between 1866 and 1872, which in 1929 became the cathedral of the new Apostolic Vicariate of Anqing, then run by Spanish Jesuits.
Shitaishi Mansion 世太史第 National heritage site · on the map
A large brick-and-timber courtyard house in Anqing's old city, begun in the Wanli reign of the Ming as an official's home and rebuilt in the Qing dynasty.
Tongcheng Confucian Temple 桐城文庙 National heritage site · on the map
The former county Confucian temple in the centre of Tongcheng, a town famed for the Tongcheng school of Qing-dynasty prose writers.
Xuejiagang Site 薛家岗遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic settlement and cemetery on a narrow mound near where the Qian and Wan rivers meet, south-east of Qianshan city, which gave its name to the Xuejiagang culture of the middle and lower Yangtze.
Yezhai Cemetery of Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance 野寨抗日阵亡将士公墓 National heritage site · on the map
A cemetery and memorial built in 1942–1943 at Yezhai, at the foot of Mount Tianzhu, for 985 soldiers of the Nationalist army's 176th Division killed fighting Japanese forces, paid for by people of 13 counties in Anhui and Hubei.
Zhenfeng Pagoda 振风塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the grounds of Yingjiang Temple on the Yangtze riverfront in Anqing, built in the late Ming dynasty around 1570.

Bengbu 9 sites

Bengbu Museum 蚌埠市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Bengbu's city museum, a national first-grade museum, which moved in 2015 into a large new building on the west side of Citizens' Square whose design evokes Yu the Great cutting through the mountains to channel the Huai.
Gaixia Site 垓下遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An earth-walled settlement on the south bank of the Tuo River, known locally as Bawang Cheng (the Hegemon-King's City); excavations since 2007 have dated its walls to about 4,600 years ago, in the Dawenkou culture, and the county presents it as the oldest walled town found in Anhui.
Hequan Farm 禾泉农庄 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm-based leisure park on the western outskirts of Bengbu, founded in 2001, that mixes seasonal flower fields and fruit picking with restaurants, a hotel and guesthouses, children's rides and a row of workshops where sesame oil, vinegar and dendrobium liquor are made in front of visitors.
Longzi Lake 龙子湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A long, shallow lake on the eastern side of Bengbu, ringed by low hills and now enclosed by the growing city.
Zhanggong Mountain Park 张公山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A city park of about 110 hectares in western Bengbu, made up of Zhanggong Shan, a 71-metre hill, and the lake beside it.
Guo River First Bridge, Huaiyuan 涡河一桥 National heritage site · on the map
A granite stone-arch road bridge across the Guo River at the foot of Gui Shan on the western edge of Huaiyuan town, begun in 1959 and, after a pause in construction, opened to traffic at the end of 1964, when it was the longest bridge on the Bengbu–Fuyang road.
Old Bengbu Huai River Railway Bridge 蚌埠淮河铁路老桥 National heritage site
A steel truss railway bridge across the Huai River at Bengbu, completed in May 1911 for the Tianjin–Pukou Railway; its opening turned Bengbu from a small market town into a railway city.
Shuangdun Site 双墩遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic settlement of more than 7,000 years ago in Xiaobengbu town north of the Huai River, type site of the Shuangdun culture, whose pottery bears over 600 incised signs showing animals, plants and daily life.
Yuhui Village Site 禹会村遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Longshan-culture site of 4,400–4,100 years ago at the southern foot of Mount Tu, on the east bank of the Huai River, named after the tradition that Yu the Great gathered the lords at Tushan.

Bozhou 11 sites

Ancient Tunnels of Bozhou (Cao Cao's Troop Tunnel) 亳州古地道 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A network of underground passages beneath the old city of Bozhou, the home town of Cao Cao, begun in the late Eastern Han but surviving mostly from the Song dynasty; the tunnels radiate from the old crossroads of Dayushou and are built partly of earth and timber but mostly of brick.
Bozhou Museum 亳州博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum of Bozhou, founded in 1959 and now a national second-grade museum, in a Han-style building among trees.
Gujing Gongjiu Brewing Site and Liquor Culture Park 古井贡酒酿造遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The historic core of the Gujing Gongjiu distillery in Gujing town, where a Song-dynasty well, a Ming well and a set of fermentation pits in use since at least 1515, the date on a boundary brick found among them, are protected with the excavated remains of a Ming–Qing brewery.
Huaxilou (Shanxi–Shaanxi Guild Hall) 花戏楼 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A guild hall and temple to the war god Guan Yu built in the Qing dynasty by medicine merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi trading in Bozhou, on Xianning Street in the old northern quarter.
Linyongcheng Forest Park 林拥城 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park on the south-western edge of Bozhou laid out around a reservoir, also known as Yaodu Linhai, the 'forest sea of the medicine capital', after the city's role as a centre of the herbal-medicine trade.
Mengcheng Museum 蒙城博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The county museum of Mengcheng, home county of the philosopher Zhuangzi, opened in 2014 and now a national third-grade museum.
Nanjing Lane Qianzhuang (Old Bank) 南京巷钱庄 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty qianzhuang, a traditional private bank and money-changer, on Nanjing Lane in the old northern quarter of Bozhou, a few minutes' walk from Huaxilou.
Tianjing Palace 天静宫 4A scenic area · on the map
A Taoist temple at Zhengdian village on the northern outskirts of Guoyang, on the spot that local tradition, recorded in Yuan- and Ming-dynasty steles, names as the birthplace of Laozi, the founder of Taoism.
Cao Clan Tombs 曹氏家族墓群 National heritage site · on the map
The burial ground of Cao Cao's family on the southern side of Bozhou, a scatter of Eastern Han tombs that includes those of his father Cao Song and his grandfather Cao Teng.
Wanfo Pagoda, Mengcheng 万佛塔 National heritage site · on the map
A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda built in 1102, in the Northern Song dynasty, for the Xinghua Temple, which has since disappeared.
Xuege Pagoda 薛阁塔 National heritage site · on the map
An eight-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda built between 1772 and 1812, in the Qing dynasty, in imitation of a timber tower.

Chizhou 26 sites

Dawang Cave 大王洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A 10 km² karst scenic area in Paifang town on the south bank of the Yangtze, Chizhou's first 4A site, built around the Dawang Cave, whose name was written by the calligrapher and Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu.
Dayuan Cultural Park 大愿文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A Buddhist-themed park at Kecun, the northern foot of Mount Jiuhua, built around a 99-metre bronze statue of Ksitigarbha, the bodhisattva of the mountain; the height stands for Jiuhua's 99 peaks and the 99 years of Kim Gyo-gak, the monk revered as his incarnation.
Guaitan Rafting 怪潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A whitewater rafting run of about 4.5 km on a mountain river, taking around an hour and a half through three sets of rapids, six river bends and five clear pools between forested hills.
Guniujiang Longmen Scenic Area (Shitai side) 牯牛降龙门景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Shitai-county side of Guniujiang, a 6,700-hectare forest that has been a national nature reserve since 1988, Anhui's first forest-ecosystem reserve of that rank; its main summit, Guniu Dagang (1,727.6 m), is the third-highest peak in southern Anhui.
Jiuhua Shenlong Valley 九华神龙谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded gorge about 3 km long on the southern side of Mount Jiuhua, cut by streams from Pusatou and Loutai hills and known locally as 'nine drops and eighteen bends'.
Jiuhua Tianchi 九华天池 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in south-eastern Guichi, developed from 2007 around the Siling Reservoir, a lake high in the hills known as the 'heavenly pool'.
Jiuziyan 九子岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A rocky mountain area on the eastern side of the Jiuhua range that gave Mount Jiuhua its old name, Jiuzi ('Nine Sons') Mountain, and is regarded as the cradle of Buddhism there: among its relics is the spot where Kim Gyo-gak, later venerated as Ksitigarbha, first practised.
Lianfeng Yunhai 莲峰云海 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area on Lianhua (Lotus) Peak (1,048 m) at the northern foot of the Jiuhua range, named for the seas of cloud often seen from the summit; the peak's shape also earns it the name Brush-Rest Mountain.
Penglai Cave 蓬莱仙洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A large limestone cave more than 3,000 m long near Ducun, the home village of the late-Tang poet Du Xunhe, formed on four levels: upper, middle and lower caves and an underground river.
Qishan Hill and Pingtian Lake 齐山·平天湖 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A 40 km² scenic area on the eastern edge of Chizhou that joins Qishan, a hill whose rocks carry cliff inscriptions left by visitors from the Tang dynasty to the Republic, among them a line attributed to the Song general Yue Fei, with Pingtian Lake and the wetland park on its southern shore.
Qiupu River Scenic Area 秋浦河 4A scenic area · on the map
A stretch of the Qiupu River near Shitai, the 'river of poems' where Li Bai stayed on five occasions and wrote his seventeen 'Songs of Qiupu'.
Xianyu Mountain and the Jugen Pass Ancient Hui Road 仙寓山·榉根关古徽道 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain area in Xianyu town on the western arm of the Huangshan range, rising to 1,376 m, whose centrepiece is the Jugen Pass Ancient Hui Road: a 7.5 km stone-paved trade route of Tang origin by which Huizhou merchants carried tea and scholars' supplies, lined with old rest pavilions, inscribed steles and a stone-slab bridge of 1802.
Xinghua Village (Apricot Blossom Village) 杏花村 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped park on the western edge of Chizhou on the site that local tradition links to the 'apricot blossom village' of 'Qingming', the poem Du Mu wrote while prefect of Chizhou in the Tang dynasty; a Qing gazetteer of the village was included in the imperial Siku Quanshu collection.
Xiushan Gate Museum 秀山门博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A private museum of traditional Chinese building crafts, opened in 2006 in the gate tower and walls of Xiushan Gate, the west gate of old Chizhou, which took its present name in 1235 in memory of Xiao Tong, the Liang-dynasty Crown Prince Zhaoming.
Yulong Cave 鱼龙洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone cave in Qidu town named for the way it winds under the hill like a coiled dragon; its mouth, about 8 m wide and 5 m high and shaped like a crocodile's open jaws, is hung with stalactites above a clear pool that never dries.
Zuishanye (Huangya Gorge and Ciyun Cave) 醉山野 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area in Yuanxi village just outside Shitai town with two parts.
Baisui Palace 百岁宫 National heritage site
A ridge-top monastery above Jiuhua Street that grew from a Ming hermitage where the monk Wuxia (Haiyu) lived in the Wanli era and died aged 110; his body did not decay and, gilded, is still enshrined in the temple, and in 1630 the Chongzhen Emperor honoured him as a 'Bodhisattva of the Manifested Body'.
Baiyashan Pagoda 百牙山塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey, six-sided brick pagoda on the eastern foot of Baiya Hill in central Chizhou, built in 1538 under the prefect Lu Gang with money raised by the city's river-trade brokers, who gave it its name.
Huacheng Temple 化城寺 National heritage site
The oldest and leading temple of Mount Jiuhua, in the middle of Jiuhua Street: tradition dates it to 401, and the Silla monk Kim Gyo-gak lived here in the 8th century, after which it was dedicated to Ksitigarbha and called the head of all the mountain's temples.
Hualong Cave 华龙洞 National heritage site
A Palaeolithic cave site on the southern slope of Meiyuan Hill where excavations since 2006 have recovered human fossils about 300,000 years old, including the skull known as 'Dongzhi Man', together with stone tools and the bones of giant pandas, stegodons and other animals.
Jiyang Cao Ancestral Hall (Qingyang Museum) 济阳曹氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
Two Ming–Qing clan halls that were taken down in villages near Lingyang and rebuilt in Qingyang town between 1991 and 1995, where they house the county museum: the Cao ancestral hall, with its gate tower, Minglun Hall and rear shrine, and the Chen clan's Xiaosi Hall.
Li Ancestral Hall, Shangzhang 上章李氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A Huizhou-style clan temple in Shangzhang village whose present buildings date from a rebuilding of 1781–1799, with a front hall, the Xulun ancestral hall and a two-storey rear shrine set one behind another.
Qingxi Pagoda 清溪塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, originally named Miaoyin Pagoda, built between 1601 and 1612 under a succession of Chizhou prefects where the old course of the Qingxi River meets the Yangtze, on the north-eastern side of the city.
Shrine of Living Buddha 肉身宝殿 National heritage site
The hall on Shenguang Ridge above Jiuhua Street that houses the remains of Kim Gyo-gak, the Silla prince-monk who died in 794 and was venerated as Ksitigarbha; his body was placed in a stone stupa, around which the hall was later built.
Taiping Shanfang 太平山房 National heritage site · on the map
A village school building in Suo village on the south side of Mount Jiuhua, first a hall of the Chen clan and turned into a school in 1771; it is one of the best-preserved old school buildings in Anhui.
Zhiyuan Temple 祇园寺 National heritage site
One of the four great monasteries of Mount Jiuhua, a few minutes' walk from Huacheng Temple on Jiuhua Street, founded in the Jiajing era of the Ming as a small hermitage and named after the Jetavana grove where the Buddha taught.

Chuzhou 12 sites

Mount Langya 琅琊山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A range of wooded hills on the south-western edge of Chuzhou, rising to 321 m, made famous by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, who governed Chuzhou in the 1040s and wrote 'The Old Toper's Pavilion' about the Zuiweng Pavilion in its valley (the present pavilion is Qing).
Chishan Lake National Wetland Park 池杉湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A national wetland park in south-eastern Lai'an County on the border with Nanjing's Luhe District, named for the pond cypresses (Taxodium) that grow in its lake and form a flooded forest.
Huangfu Mountain 皇甫山 4A scenic area · on the map
A range of forested hills in Nanqiao District, west of Chuzhou, protected as a national forest park, with a provincial nature reserve named after it in the same hills.
Jiushan Cave 韭山洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A large limestone cave in the Jiushan hills of Yinjian town in southern Fengyang County, inside the Jiushan National Forest Park and rated 4A in 2020.
Langxiang Maze Valley 狼巷迷谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst scenic area in Fengyang County where narrow, winding passages cut through limestone form a natural maze, some so tight that visitors have to turn sideways or stoop to get through.
Longgang Ancient Town 龙岗古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Longgang, now part of Tongcheng town in northern Tianchang, is an old market town where the Eighth Branch of the Communist-led Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (Kangda) ran its school from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1944.
Ming Imperial Mausoleum (Huangling), Fengyang 明皇陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The tomb that Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty, built between 1366 and 1379 for his parents, about 7 km south of Fengyang town, in the county where he grew up in a poor family.
Wu Jingzi Memorial Hall 吴敬梓纪念馆 4A scenic area
A memorial museum to Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), the Quanjiao-born author of The Scholars, often seen as China's foremost satirical novel, on Zoumagang on the northern edge of Quanjiao town, facing the site of his family home across the Xiang River.
Xiaogang Village 小岗村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The village in Xiaoxihe town, Fengyang, where on the night of 24 November 1978 eighteen farmers secretly signed a pledge to divide the collective fields into household plots, a step later held up as the start of China's rural reforms.
Banta Battle Site and Wandong Revolutionary Memorial Hall 半塔保卫战旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Banta, a market town in northern Lai'an County, was the centre of the anti-Japanese base area that the Communist-led New Fourth Army set up east of the Tianjin–Pukou railway from August 1939, and gives its name to the Banta Defence, a battle fought over the town during the war.
Ming Zhongdu Imperial City 明中都 National heritage site
The remains of the 'Central Capital' that Zhu Yuanzhang began building at his birthplace in Fengyang in 1369 and abandoned in 1375; its planning served as the model for the later palaces of Nanjing and Beijing.
Taiping Bridge, Chihe 池河太平桥 National heritage site · on the map
A multi-arched stone bridge across the Chi River at the western end of Chihe town, built in 1375 by the Dingyuan magistrate on the official road linking Nanjing, Fengyang and Beijing, and the only Ming stone arch bridge left in northern Anhui.

Fuyang 10 sites

Bali River Scenic Area 八里河 5A scenic area · on the map
Bali River is a lakeside park in Balihe town, Yingshang County, built by local farmers from 1992 on a flood-prone marsh near where the Ying River meets the Huai, and opened in 1996 as a 'farmers' park'.
Digou Ecological Scenic Area 迪沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural scenic area in Digou town, Yingshang County, made up of an ecological park that keeps peacocks, water birds, swans, parrots and monkeys among collections of rare plants, the Buddhist Zhuyin Temple and a culture square.
Fengbaigang Lotus Scenic Area 枫柏岗 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural lotus and wetland park near the seat of Dicheng town in southern Funan County, close to the Huai River.
Fuyang Ecological Park 阜阳生态乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large leisure park on the north-western edge of Fuyang that mixes farm-style sightseeing with family entertainment.
Jinzhongzi Liquor Culture Park 金种子文化产业园 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor park of the Jinzhongzi (Golden Seed) baijiu company in southern Fuyang, whose distillery grew from the Fuyang County liquor works founded in 1949.
Linquan Magic City 魔幻之都 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourism complex on the west bank of the Liu'an River in western Linquan, themed on the 'Investiture of the Gods' legends of the Shang–Zhou period.
Ming-Qing Garden, Yingshang 明清苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A compound of Ming- and Qing-style courtyard buildings, including houses, a temple and an opera stage, beside the riverside park in Yingshang county town, a short walk from Guanzhong Old Street.
Taihe Global Carnival Amusement Park 太和嘉年华游乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An amusement park beside the Shaying River at Taihe, about 500 m west of the river's third bridge, whose rides include the 'Eye of Taihe' Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, a log flume and a water-play area.
Yingzhou West Lake 颍州西湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Yingzhou West Lake was a celebrated lake of Song-dynasty Yingzhou, today's Fuyang, praised by Ouyang Xiu and by Su Shi, who compared it with Hangzhou's West Lake, until Yellow River floods silted it up.
You Family Garden and Wulihu Wetland Park 尤家花园·五里湖湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A private garden begun in the late Qing beside Wuli Lake on the western edge of Yingshang town, together with the wetland park around the lake.

Hefei 31 sites

Sanhe Ancient Town 三河古镇 5A scenic area
A river town where the Fengle, Hangbu and Xiaonan rivers meet near Chao Lake, scene of the Taiping army's 1858 victory over the Xiang Army at the Battle of Sanhe.
Anhui Art Museum 安徽省美术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Anhui's provincial art museum, opened in May 2022 on the north shore of Chao Lake in Hefei's Binhu New District, beside the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Museum.
Anhui Museum 安徽博物院 4A scenic area · on the map
Anhui's provincial museum, whose main Shushan building opened in 2011 in Hefei's government district; its collection numbers about 220,000 objects.
Bantang Tulip Highland 半汤郁金香高地 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside flower park in the Chaohu Economic Development Zone near the Bantang hot springs, east of Chaohu city.
Bao Gong Hometown Cultural Park 包公故里文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A culture park opened in 2023 in Baogong town, Feidong County, where Bao Zheng, the Song official remembered as Judge Bao, was born and grew up.
Baogong Park 包公园 4A scenic area
A park along the Bao River in central Hefei dedicated to Bao Zheng (999–1062), the upright Song-dynasty official known to generations of opera and television audiences as Judge Bao.
Changlin Old Street 长临古街 4A scenic area · on the map
The old street of Changlinhe, a town near the north shore of Chao Lake in Feidong County, lined with traditional houses and shops.
Dawei Eco-Tourism Area 大圩 4A scenic area · on the map
A farming town on the south-eastern outskirts of Hefei developed for farm tourism, where city residents come to pick seasonal fruit and vegetables and to fish.
Former Residence of Li Hongzhang 李鸿章故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Part of the family mansion of Li Hongzhang (1823–1901), the late-Qing statesman who founded the Huai Army and the Beiyang Fleet and was for decades the face of the Qing court in foreign affairs, on the Huaihe Road pedestrian street in central Hefei.
Golden Peacock Hot Spring Resort, Tangchi 金孔雀温泉度假村 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort with accommodation in Tangchi, a spa town in western Lujiang County and one of the two hot-spring areas around Chao Lake.
Guanting Forest Park 官亭林海 4A scenic area · on the map
A large planted forest park on the Yangtze–Huai watershed at Guanting town in Feixi County, centred on Fengxiang Lake.
Hechai 1972 Creative Park 合柴1972 4A scenic area · on the map
A creative and leisure quarter opened in 2019 in the former Hefei Diesel Engine Factory, which started work in 1972 and whose site was later used as a prison until 2018.
Hefei Binhu National Forest Park 合肥滨湖国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A 10.7 km² wetland forest park on the north shore of Chao Lake near the mouth of the Nanfei River, opened in two phases in 2012 and 2013 and made a national forest park in 2013.
Hefei Botanical Garden 合肥植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A 70-hectare botanical garden on the south-eastern shore of Dongpu Reservoir in Hefei's Shushan District, established in 1987 on the site of a former horticultural farm.
Hefei Sunac Land 合肥融创乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large theme park in Hefei's Binhu New District, built as Wanda's Hefei park and now run by Sunac, with themed zones, rides and live shows.
Hefei Wildlife Park 合肥野生动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
Hefei's main zoo, a wildlife park on Wangjiang West Road at the foot of Dashu Mountain on the western edge of the city.
Huiyuan Garden 徽园 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme park of gardens opened in September 2001 in Hefei's economic development zone, with about 45 sights; pavilions and gardens represent each of Anhui's cities, such as the Hefei and Lu'an gardens.
Mushan Island 姥山岛 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A wooded volcanic islet of 0.86 km² in the middle of Chao Lake, 3.5 km off Zhongmiao on the north shore.
Sanshigang Eco-Agricultural Tourism Area 三十岗 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural township of orchards and farmland on Hefei's north-western edge, developed for farm tourism with seasonal activities such as blossom viewing and fruit picking.
Three Kingdoms Xincheng Site Park 三国新城遗址公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The ruins of Hefei's Xincheng ('New City'), a fortress the Wei general Man Chong built in 233 west of old Hefei to hold off the state of Wu, which besieged it several times without taking it.
Xiangyuan Flower World 祥源花世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern flower-themed resort park built around Tanchong Lake at Shangpai town in Feixi County, south-west of Hefei.
Xiaojingzhuang Village 小井庄 4A scenic area · on the map
A small village in Shannan town, Feixi County, whose 32-household production team secretly divided its farmland among households on 5 September 1978, during a severe drought, an early case of the household contract system that spread through China's rural reforms.
Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Museum 渡江战役纪念馆 4A scenic area
A memorial museum opened in 2012 on the north shore of Chao Lake about the People's Liberation Army's April 1949 crossing of the Yangtze, which ended with the capture of Nanjing.
Yaogang Headquarters of the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign 渡江战役总前委旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A group of late-Qing courtyard houses in Yaogang, Feidong County, where the Communist General Front Committee under Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yi directed the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign in April 1949 before moving to Nanjing at the end of the month.
Yefu Mountain National Forest Park 冶父山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill north-east of Lujiang town, protected as a national forest park and named, by legend, after the swordsmith Ou Yezi, who is said to have forged swords here.
Zipeng Mountain National Forest Park 紫蓬山 4A scenic area · on the map
A range of low wooded hills in Feixi County south-west of Hefei, protected as a national forest park and laced with walking trails.
Ziwei Cave 紫微洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone cave in the hills on the northern edge of Chaohu city, also called Shuangjing ('Twin Wells') Cave after its two shaft-like openings, about 3 km long with a main passage of some 1.5 km along an underground river.
Anhui Museum Luyang Branch (Old Exhibition Building) 安徽博物院庐阳馆 National heritage site · on the map
The original Anhui Provincial Museum on Anqing Road in central Hefei, an exhibition building of 11,580 m² begun in 1954 and completed in 1956, the year the museum was formally founded.
Former Residence of Feng Yuxiang 冯玉祥旧居 National heritage site · on the map
The house in Zhuke village, Xiage town, where the Republican-era general Feng Yuxiang (1882–1948), known in the West as the 'Christian General', stayed on visits to his ancestral home in 1936–37.
Former Residence of Liu Mingchuan 刘铭传旧居 National heritage site · on the map
The moated, fortified manor of Liu Mingchuan (1836–1896), the Huai Army general who became the first governor of Taiwan under the Qing, 2 km north of Daqian Mountain in Feixi County.
Former Residence of Zhang Zhizhong 张治中故居 National heritage site · on the map
The birthplace home of Zhang Zhizhong (1890–1969), a Nationalist general who in 1949 stayed on the mainland and later held senior posts in the People's Republic, at Hongjiatuan in Huanglu town on the north shore of Chao Lake.

Huaibei 7 sites

Nanhu Park 南湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Nanhu (South Lake) is a lake and wetland park in Huaibei's Lieshan district, created on land that subsided above coal workings and part of the chain of reclaimed lakes that now runs through the city.
Sijiliuyuan Pomegranate Park 四季榴园 4A scenic area · on the map
Sijiliuyuan is a rural scenic area in the hills of Lieshan district, built around more than 1,000 mu of pomegranate orchards surviving from the Ming and Qing, in an area where pomegranates have been grown since at least the Song and Yuan.
Suixi Ancient Town 濉溪古城 4A scenic area · on the map
Suixi Ancient Town is a leisure district in Suixi county town, home of the Kouzi liquor brand, that joins Qianlong Lake park to an old-style shopping quarter.
Xiangshan Park 相山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiangshan Park covers the southern slopes of Xiangshan, a hill on the northern edge of central Huaibei that was one of the eight views of old Suzhou prefecture.
Huaihai Campaign General Front Committee Site (Wenchang Palace) 临涣文昌宫 National heritage site · on the map
Wenchang Palace in Linhuan, a temple to the god of literature founded under the Tang and later used as an academy and a school, became the forward headquarters of the Communist Central Plains Field Army on 10 November 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign.
Linhuan Ancient City Walls 临涣古城墙 National heritage site · on the map
Linhuan, the ancient town of Zhi, is still ringed by rammed-earth walls first raised by the state of Song in the late Warring States period, nearly square in plan and shaded by tall trees.
Liuzi Grand Canal Site 柳孜运河遗址 National heritage site
Liuzi village lies on the Tongji Canal section of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal, and excavations here in 1999 and 2012–13 confirmed the canal's route and uncovered Tang boats, Song stone bridge piers and pottery from more than 20 kilns.

Huainan 11 sites

Anhui Chu Culture Museum (Shou County Museum) 安徽楚文化博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Shou County's museum, founded in 1958, reopened in 2022 in a new 15,000 m² building as the Anhui Chu Culture Museum, inside the Shouchun City National Archaeological Site Park on the site of the capital the state of Chu moved to in 241 BC.
Bagong Mountain Scenic Area 八公山 4A scenic area
A range of some 40 low peaks between Huainan and Shou County, named after the 'Eight Gentlemen' of the Western Han prince Liu An, who compiled the Huainanzi here and, by legend, invented tofu; the Battle of Fei River of 383 was fought below them.
Jiaogang Lake Film and Television Base 焦岗湖影视城 4A scenic area · on the map
A large outdoor film set beside Jiaogang Lake, built as a backlot of walled mansions, farm courtyards, an old railway station and locomotive, trenches, an old hospital, a people's commune hall and dormitories for 'sent-down' youth.
Jiaogang Lake National Wetland Park 焦岗湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake of about 40 km² on the north side of the Huai River in Huainan's Maoji district, cut off from the river by embankments in the 1950s and now a national wetland park and water-conservancy scenic area.
Longhu Park, Huainan 龙湖公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Huainan's oldest public park, laid out around a lake in Tianjia'an District from 1957 and opened in 1980.
Shangyao National Forest Park 上窑国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of about 30 wooded hills and 10.4 km² in Huainan's Datong District, near Shangyao town, one of the centres of the Tang-dynasty Shouzhou kilns.
Shou County Old Town and City Wall 寿县古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Shou County's old town, the Shouchun of history and the last capital of the state of Chu, is still ringed by its city wall, rebuilt in the Southern Song with bricks stamped 'Jiankang' that can still be seen.
Anfengtang Reservoir (Quebei) 安丰塘 National heritage site
Anfengtang, known in antiquity as Quebei, is an irrigation reservoir in southern Shou County that tradition attributes to Sunshu Ao, chief minister of the state of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period, although some scholars argue it is no older than the Han.
Datong Wanrenkeng Memorial Hall (Huainan Japanese Occupation Sites) 大通万人坑教育馆 National heritage site
A memorial hall in Huainan's Datong coal-mining district built at the Wanrenkeng ('ten-thousand-person pits'), three trenches on the northern foot of Shungeng Mountain that hold the remains of more than 10,000 miners and resistance fighters who died under the Japanese occupation of the Datong mines.
Shou County Confucius Temple 寿县孔庙 National heritage site · on the map
The Confucian temple of Shou County stands on West Street inside the walled old town, a complex of Ming and Qing buildings that includes the Dacheng Hall and a Kuixing Pavilion, with old ginkgo trees in its courtyards.
Shou County Mosque 寿县清真寺 National heritage site · on the map
A mosque in Qingzhensi ('Mosque') Lane inside the walled old town of Shou County, whose surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Huangshan 53 sites

Huizhou Ancient City (Shexian) 徽州古城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The old town of Shexian (Huicheng), seat of Huizhou prefecture from the Song to the Qing, and the core of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone, whose other parts are Tangyue, Tangmo, Chengkan and the Qiankou Ming houses.
Daguling Gorge 打鼓岭 4A scenic area · on the map
A deep wooded gorge on the Dagu stream in Meixi township, in the mountains of Yi county, where a path climbs through bamboo forest past clear pools such as the Fairy Pool, a 'water-curtain cave' behind a falling spring and the three-tiered Sandie waterfall.
East Huangshan Resort (Huangshan Tea Farm) 东黄山度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A resort area on the Huangshan Tea Farm at Tanjiaqiao, a state farm that has been run by Shanghai since 1965 and to which large numbers of young people from Shanghai were sent to work in the 1960s and 1970s.
Emerald Valley 翡翠谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded valley in Shancha village below the eastern side of Huangshan, whose stream runs through a chain of clear green pools and small waterfalls.
Former New Fourth Army Headquarters, Yansi 岩寺新四军军部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Jin family compound at 22 Yinshan Road in Yansi, used as headquarters by the Communist-led New Fourth Army in the spring of 1938, when guerrilla units from eight southern provinces gathered here to be reorganised before moving to the front against Japan; the commanders Ye Ting and Xiang Ying lived in two of its three houses.
Furong Valley 芙蓉谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested gorge on the northern side of Huangshan, where a stream runs through bamboo groves past a chain of green pools and waterfalls.
Guchengyan 古城岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded rise beside the Heng River on the eastern edge of Wan'an town, with a Ming pagoda of the early Jiajing era (1520s), where since 1999 old buildings from around Xiuning county that could not be preserved where they stood have been moved and rebuilt.
Guniujiang: Guanyintang (Qimen side) 牯牛降观音堂 4A scenic area · on the map
The Qimen entrance to Guniujiang, a forested range on the border of Qimen and Shitai counties that continues the Huangshan mountains westwards, rising to 1,727.6 m and protected as a nature reserve since 1982, now a national nature reserve of about 67 km².
Huashan Mysterious Grottoes 花山谜窟 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of 36 large man-made caverns cut into the hills on the south bank of the Jian (Xin'an) River on the eastern edge of Tunxi, unrecorded in any historical source until they were found by chance in 2000.
Lixi Village 历溪 4A scenic area · on the map
An old village in Likou town in northern Qimen, founded in the Southern Tang among tea hills on the Shunxi stream, which rises on the Guniujiang mountains.
Liyang in Lane 黎阳in巷 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure quarter on the old Liyang street across the Heng River from Tunxi Old Street, redeveloped between 2007 and 2013 around the original street plan and about ten restored Huizhou houses, with new buildings around them.
Mount Qiyun 齐云山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
One of China's four sacred mountains of Taoism, a range of red sandstone (Danxia) cliffs and peaks rising to 585 m west of Huangshan city, where Taoist worship goes back to 758–760 and flourished in the Ming around the cult of Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior.
Nanping Village 南屏村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A village of the Ye clan at the foot of a hill west of the Yi county town, founded in the Northern Song, that keeps more than 300 Ming and Qing buildings, eight of them ancestral halls.
Nine Dragon Waterfall 九龙瀑 4A scenic area · on the map
A waterfall described as the largest at Huangshan, which drops 360 m in nine stages over a 600 m course from the cliffs of Xianglu Peak into a U-shaped valley on the eastern side of the mountain, forming nine cascades and nine pools.
Pingshan Village 屏山村 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A village of the Shu clan on the Jiyang stream north-east of the Yi county town, settled at the end of the Tang, that keeps more than 200 Ming and Qing houses.
Taiping Lake 太平湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir lake formed in 1970 by damming the Qingyi River, winding between forested hills in Huangshan district over about 88 km²; it was Anhui's first national wetland park.
Xiangyuan Keemun Tea Culture Park 祥源祁红产业文化博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea park devoted to Keemun (Qimen) black tea on the eastern edge of the Qimen county town, built by the Xiangyuan group in new Huizhou-style buildings.
Xieyuda Tea Culture Museum 谢裕大茶文化博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The museum of Xieyuda, a producer of Huangshan Maofeng green tea that takes its name from the Shanghai tea house of the 19th-century Huizhou merchant Xie Zheng'an, set in the company's tea expo park at Qiankou.
Xin'an River Scenic Gallery 新安江山水画廊 4A scenic area · on the map
A stretch of the Xin'an River of roughly 50 km through southern Shexian, between steep green hills dotted with Huizhou villages and old wharves, usually seen on boat trips from Shendu.
Xin'an Riverside, Tunxi 新安江滨水旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A stretch of the Xin'an River on the eastern side of Tunxi whose banks, once lined with wharves, have been landscaped as riverside parks for walking.
Xiongcun Village and Zhushan Academy 雄村 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A village of the Cao clan on the Jian River in southern Shexian, listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2014.
Bao Ancestral Hall, Fancun 歙县鲍氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Bao clan in Fancun village, Shangfeng township, completed in 1787 in the Qianlong era of the Qing.
Bei'an Covered Bridge and Wu Ancestral Hall 北岸廊桥 National heritage site · on the map
Bei'an village in eastern Shexian has two national heritage sites side by side: a mid-Qing covered bridge of three stone arches, 33 m long, roofed over with an eleven-bay gallery with benches, window openings and a small shrine, and the Wu clan's Zhide Hall.
Changqing Temple Pagoda 长庆寺塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey square brick-and-timber pagoda 23.1 m high, built in 1119 in the Northern Song at the foot of Xigan Hill on the south bank of the Lian River, facing the old town of Shexian; it is regarded as the oldest surviving pagoda in old Huizhou.
Changxi Village 昌溪村 National heritage site · on the map
An old village in south-eastern Shexian, founded in the Tang and home to the Wu clan since the Southern Song, which in Ming and Qing times was known as the first village of southern She and was filled with buildings paid for by its merchants.
Cheng Ancestral Hall, Xingcun 兴村程氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Cheng clan in Xingcun village, Gantang town, on the north side of the Huangshan range, first built in the Ming and rebuilt in the late Qing.
Chengkan Village 呈坎村 National heritage site
A village of the Luo clan in a basin ringed by hills beside the Zhongchuan stream, laid out on feng shui principles, with more than 120 Ming and Qing houses along three streets and 99 lanes; 49 of its buildings, including houses, ancestral halls, shops, watchtowers and bridges, are national heritage.
Choushu Memorial Archways 稠墅牌坊群 National heritage site · on the map
Four stone memorial archways at the entrance to Choushu, a village of the Wang clan of merchants in Zhengcun town, built between 1628 and the 1770s.
Dengfeng Bridge 登封桥 National heritage site
A nine-arch stone bridge 148 m long across the Heng River at the northern foot of Mount Qiyun, on the old walking route up the Taoist mountain.
Former Seat of the Anhui–Zhejiang–Jiangxi Provincial Committee, Shiwukeng 中共皖浙赣省委驻地旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A three-storey house in Shiwukeng village, Wangcun town, in the hills of south-western Xiuning, which housed the Chinese Communist Party's Anhui–Zhejiang–Jiangxi provincial committee from its founding in April 1936 until it left in January 1937.
Hong Ancestral Hall (Jingben Hall), Yecun 洪氏宗祠（敬本堂） National heritage site · on the map
The Jingben Hall, a branch ancestral hall of the Hong clan in Yecun village, Sanyang, founded in 1554 and repaired in 1807 and 1897.
Hong Ancestral Hall, Sanyang 三阳洪氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A large Ming and Qing ancestral hall of the Hong clan, a lineage of merchants, in Sanyang town in the hills of north-eastern Shexian.
Hong Family Mansion, Qimen 洪家大屋 National heritage site · on the map
A Huizhou mansion on East Street in Qishan, the Qimen county town, begun in 1844, whose four linked halls cover more than 1,200 m².
Hongkeng Archways and Hong Family Temple 洪坑牌坊群及洪氏家庙 National heritage site · on the map
Four surviving stone memorial archways, of an original seven, in Hongkeng village, Yansi town: two record the Hong clan's examination successes, among them the Shike archway erected in 1498, which lists 21 graduates down to the top scholar of 1809, and two honour widows' chastity.
Jinshi Hall, Huangcun 黄村进士第 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming hall, also called the Huang family hall, built in 1532 by the Huang clan of Huangcun in Shangshan town to honour Huang Fu, who passed the palace examination in 1529.
Old Opera Stages of Qimen 祁门古戏台 National heritage site · on the map
A group of eleven opera stages built into clan ancestral halls in the villages of Xin'an township and Shanli town in western Qimen, dating from the late Ming to 1927.
Pan Ancestral Hall, Dafu 大阜潘氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Pan clan in Dafu village, Bei'an town, built in 1585 in the late Ming and preserved intact.
Qiankou Ming Houses 潜口民宅 National heritage site
An open-air museum of Ming-dynasty Huizhou architecture on a hillside at Qiankou, where about ten fine buildings that could not be kept safely in their home villages were taken down and re-erected from 1984 onwards.
Sanhuai Hall, Xitou 溪头三槐堂 National heritage site
The ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Xitou village, Haiyang town, founded by Wang Jingtian in 1602 in the late Ming.
Shuyuan Memorial Archways 蜀源牌坊群 National heritage site · on the map
Three stone memorial archways at the entrance to Shuyuan village, Qiankou town: the Zanxian archway of the Jiajing era (1522–1566) honouring Bao Zhen, a 'centenarian' archway of 1742 for a woman who lived from 1644 to 1744, and a chastity archway of 1775.
Taiping Bridge, Shexian 歙县太平桥 National heritage site
A 16-arch stone bridge 268 m long across the Lian River outside the west gate of the old Huizhou prefectural town, described as the largest old stone bridge in Anhui.
Tangmo Village and Tangan Garden 唐模 National heritage site · on the map
A village in Qiankou town threaded by the Tangan stream, with old trees, small bridges, pavilions and archways, and one of the five parts of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone.
Tangyue Memorial Archways 棠樾牌坊群 National heritage site
Seven stone memorial archways, built between 1420 and 1820, stand in a line on the approach to Tangyue, the home village of the Bao clan, merchants in Ming and Qing times, honouring filial piety, widows' chastity, charity and high office.
Three Houses of the Cheng Family 程氏三宅 National heritage site
Three Ming-dynasty houses of the Cheng family at Nos.
Tong'an Hall, Xiuning 休宁同安堂 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty Huizhou merchant's house at 152 Qining Street in Haiyang, the county town of Xiuning, preserved intact with five halls set one behind another.
Wu Ancestral Halls, Shitan 石潭吴氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
Two ancestral halls of the Wu clan in Shitan, a hillside village of Xiakeng town in eastern Shexian: the Xulun Hall, a Ming hall rebuilt in the Qing with five bays, three halls and a 'hundred-beam' hall, and the Qing-dynasty Chunhui branch hall.
Xixinan Village 西溪南村 National heritage site
An old village on the Fengle River, founded in 860, that was home to the Wu clan of salt merchants, who filled it with houses, gardens and halls; most were lost in fighting in 1856, but more than 100 Ming and Qing buildings remain along three old streets and three channelled streams.
Xu Ancestral Hall (Dunmu Hall), Jincun 歙县许氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The Dunmu Hall, ancestral hall of the Xu clan in Jincun village, Xucun town, built in 1536 in the Ming dynasty.
Xucun Old Village 许村 National heritage site · on the map
A large old village of the Xu clan in north-western Shexian, where close to 200 Ming and Qing buildings, among them memorial archways, pavilions, a covered bridge, ancestral halls and houses, line an old street about 1.5 km long.
Yuliang Dam and Old Street 渔梁坝 National heritage site
An ancient stone weir about 140 m long across the Lian River just south-east of Shexian town, first built in the Tang and rebuilt in 1605 from massive blocks locked together with stone dowels.
Zheng Ancestral Hall, Zhengcun 郑氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Zheng clan in Zhengcun town, founded in the Chenghua era (around 1466) in memory of the late-Yuan recluse and Neo-Confucian scholar Zheng Yu.
Zhenhai Bridge 镇海桥 National heritage site
A seven-arch stone bridge, 133 m long, across the Heng River at the western end of Tunxi Old Street, near where the Shuai and Heng rivers meet to form the Xin'an, linking the old town with Liyang on the far bank.
Zhou Ancestral Hall, Changxi 昌溪周氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Zhou clan, also called Liushun Hall, in the hamlet of Zhoubangtou on the edge of Changxi in south-eastern Shexian.

Lu'an 28 sites

Tiantangzhai 天堂寨 5A scenic area · on the map
Tiantangzhai, at 1,729 m the second-highest peak of the Dabie Mountains, stands on the Anhui–Hubei border on the watershed between the Huai and Yangtze rivers.
Wanfo Lake 万佛湖 5A scenic area · on the map
Wanfo Lake is the scenic name of Longhekou Reservoir, built by around 100,000 labourers mobilised from across Shucheng County from 1958 and largely finished in 1970 as a flood-control and irrigation source for the Pishihang irrigation district.
Anhui Dream Ocean World 梦幻海洋大世界 4A scenic area · on the map
Anhui Dream Ocean World is a commercial indoor aquarium of about 10,000 m² in the Zhedong trade centre in central Lu'an, opened by private investors as a marine-life exhibition and science-education venue.
Baimajian (Main Peak of the Dabie Mountains) 白马尖 4A scenic area · on the map
Baimajian, at 1,777 m the highest summit of the Dabie Mountains, rises in the far south-west of Huoshan County inside the Dabie Mountains nature reserve.
Dabieshan Fengqing Valley 大别山风情谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Fengqing Valley is a forested valley scenic area in Hongshan village, next to the Dabieshan Grottoes, with a narrow rock cleft, waterfalls dropping into a lake, a stream with sandy banks, bamboo groves and a stand of nanmu trees.
Dabieshan Grottoes Scenic Area 大别山石窟 4A scenic area · on the map
The Dabieshan Grottoes are natural rock shelters and caves, not carved shrines, in a wooded scenic area with a 15 km² core in Hongshan village, part of the Dabie Mountains (Lu'an) National Geopark.
Dawan Village 大湾村 4A scenic area · on the map
Dawan is a tea-growing mountain village in Huashi township whose 2.5 km² scenic area combines tea gardens, farm guesthouses and a group of twelve ancient sandalwood trees with sites of the revolutionary period.
Dongshisun Scenic Area 东石笋 4A scenic area · on the map
Dongshisun is a hill scenic area south of Maotanchang town whose slopes are built of stacked slabs of metamorphic rock, rising to just over 760 m.
Dushan Revolutionary Sites 独山革命旧址群 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Dushan is a market town in the Dabie foothills where a Communist-led uprising broke out in 1929, in the years when the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet base was being formed.
Foziling Reservoir 佛子岭水库 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Foziling Reservoir on the upper East Pi River was built between 1952 and 1954 as the first large water-conservancy and hydropower project of the People's Republic, and is officially called the 'first dam of New China'.
Hengpaitou Headworks 横排头 4A scenic area · on the map
Hengpaitou, on the Pi River at Subu town, is the head of the Pi River main canal of the Pishihang irrigation district, a large scheme serving farmland in Anhui and Henan.
Huoshan Grand Canyon Rafting 霍山大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
The Huoshan Grand Canyon is a rafting and adventure area on the Kongque River, where an 8 km run drops 160 m in total, with a largest single drop of 19 m, over smooth patterned rock beds between bamboo-covered slopes.
Jinzhai Red Army Square 金寨红军广场 4A scenic area · on the map
Red Army Square in Jinzhai county town is a memorial park on the county's revolutionary history, laid out around a monument tower to revolutionary martyrs.
Jiugongzhai 九公寨 4A scenic area · on the map
Jiugongzhai is a wooded hill in Shibanchong township, counted among the eight traditional sights of Lu'an and long associated with Buddhism.
Linhuaigang Flood Control Project 临淮岗 4A scenic area · on the map
Linhuaigang is a flood-control scheme on the Huai River, described by the Lu'an government as the largest water-control project on the river, with a main dam, auxiliary dams, a diversion channel, a ship lock and sluices stretching some 78 km across the river plain north of Huoqiu.
Liuwan Qingxia Gorge Park 六万情峡 4A scenic area · on the map
Liuwan Qingxia is a commercial leisure complex built around a wooded gorge in Luoerling town, rated 4A in 2025 and themed partly on the area's anti-Japanese war history.
Longjin Xidi Gorge 龙津溪地 4A scenic area · on the map
Longjin Xidi is a gorge scenic area about 8.5 km long in the hills of Quanjun township, developed by a private tourism company across the river from Xijiuhua Shan in Henan.
Meishan Reservoir 梅山水库 4A scenic area · on the map
Meishan Reservoir on the upper Shi River is one of the large reservoirs built to control the Huai River, supplying flood control, power and water for 3.83 million mu of farmland in Anhui and Henan.
Nanyue Shan 南岳山 4A scenic area · on the map
Nanyue Shan is a 405 m hill rising 2.5 km south of Huoshan county town, steep on its southern face and gently sloping to the north.
Tongluozhai 铜锣寨 4A scenic area · on the map
Tongluozhai is a steep, isolated peak of 1,096 m in the heart of the Dabie Mountains, within a 92 km² scenic area of pine-clad crags and oddly shaped rocks.
Wanfo Mountain 万佛山 4A scenic area · on the map
Wanfo Mountain is a forested range in south-western Shucheng County, a national forest park and geopark of about 50 km² whose main peak, Laofoding, reaches 1,539 m.
Wanxi Grand Rift Valley 皖西大裂谷 4A scenic area · on the map
The Wanxi Grand Rift is a deep V-shaped cleft through a wooded hill in Taipingqiao village, part of the Dabie Mountains (Lu'an) National Geopark.
Wanxi Museum 皖西博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The Wanxi Museum is Lu'an's city museum, founded in 1980, whose present Hui-style building opened in 2011 and partly reopened in August 2025 after a refit.
Xianghongdian Reservoir 响洪甸水库 4A scenic area · on the map
Xianghongdian Reservoir on the West Pi River was built between 1956 and 1958 behind an 87.5 m concrete gravity-arch dam for flood control, irrigation and power, and is a main source of the Pishihang irrigation district.
Yanzihe Grand Canyon 燕子河大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
Yanzihe Grand Canyon is a forested gorge about 5.8 km long in Yanzihe town, adjoining the Tiantangzhai area and part of the Dabie Mountains geopark.
Youran Lanxi Resort 悠然蓝溪 4A scenic area · on the map
Youran Lanxi is a large resort complex in Sanshipu town built by the Xingmao property group, laid out round a lake with new Chinese-style buildings, gardens, a big fountain square and stone-inscription galleries.
Youran Nanshan Resort 悠然南山 4A scenic area · on the map
Youran Nanshan is a sports and leisure resort in Zhongdian town built by a property developer, with Mediterranean-style buildings, hotels and inns.
Li Family Manor 李氏庄园 National heritage site · on the map
The Li Family Manor, also called Lijiawei, is a moated landlord's estate begun in 1856 by the Li clan, who by the late Qing held land across western Anhui and neighbouring Henan.

Ma'anshan 11 sites

Caishi Rock 采石矶 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Caishi Rock is the cliff-bound foot of Cuiluo Hill where it juts into the Yangtze on the south-western edge of Ma'anshan, counted first of the river's three famous rocks and long a strategic crossing, where Song forces led by Yu Yunwen defeated an invading Jin army in 1161.
Baochan Mountain 褒禅山 4A scenic area · on the map
Baochan Mountain, a wooded hill north-east of Hanshan county town, was once called Hua Shan and took its present name from the Tang monk Huibao, who built a hermitage at its foot and was buried here.
Daqingshan Wildlife World 大青山野生动物世界 4A scenic area · on the map
Daqingshan Wildlife World is a commercial zoo and theme park of more than 2,000 mu in Taibai town, rated 4A in 2023, keeping over 3,000 animals of more than 200 species.
Dehuatang Chinese Antique Bed Museum 德化堂古床博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The Dehuatang museum in Ma'anshan's Yushan district is a private museum of traditional Chinese beds, displaying carved wooden beds, most of them from the Qing dynasty and the Republican era, with other old furniture in period room settings.
Jilong Mountain and Banyue Lake 鸡笼山 4A scenic area · on the map
Jilong Mountain is a forested hill of about 240 m in western He County, an outlier of the Dabie range with some 20,000 mu of woodland.
Lingjiatan Site 凌家滩遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Lingjiatan, on the north bank of the Yuxi River, was a large late-Neolithic settlement of about 3800–3300 BC with double moats, a ritual altar platform and a cemetery rich in jade.
Putang National Holiday Park 濮塘 4A scenic area · on the map
Putang is an area of about 20 km² of wooded hills on Ma'anshan's eastern edge, now run as the Putang National Holiday Park, with 49 peaks, 53 small valleys and eight reservoirs.
Taihu Mountain 太湖山 4A scenic area · on the map
Taihu Mountain in southern Hanshan County is a wooded upland made up of the Taihushan National Forest Park, about 1,800 ha with 95% forest cover, and a deer park.
Tomb of Li Bai 李白墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Tang poet Li Bai, who died in Dangtu in 762, was reburied in 817 at the western foot of Qingshan (Green Hill), where his grave mound lies in a memorial garden with the Taibai Shrine.
Xiangquan Hot Springs 香泉 4A scenic area · on the map
Xiangquan is a small hot-spring town in He County whose warm spring has been used for bathing for centuries; legend says the Liang-dynasty crown prince Xiao Tong was cured of a skin complaint here.
Tomb of Zhu Ran 朱然墓 National heritage site · on the map
This is the family burial ground of Zhu Ran (182–249), a general of the Eastern Wu state in the Three Kingdoms period, whose brick tomb, found in 1984, was the highest-ranking Wu burial excavated up to 2013.

Suzhou 8 sites

Caiwa Huaihai Campaign Headquarters Site 蔡洼淮海战役旧址 4A scenic area · on the map
The village of Caiwa in Xiao county, headquarters of the East China Field Army during the Huaihai campaign of 1948–49, one of the decisive battles of the Chinese Civil War.
Dangshan Pear Tree King Scenic Area 砀山梨树王 4A scenic area · on the map
Old pear orchards around Liangli village in Dangshan, the county that calls itself China's pear capital and the home of the Dangshan Su pear, centred on an ancient tree known as the 'Pear Tree King'.
Huangcangyu National Forest Park 皇藏峪 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded valley in the low limestone hills of Xiao county, named 'the valley where the emperor hid' after the tradition that Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sheltered here before his rise.
Lingbi Modern Agriculture Expo Park 灵璧现代农业博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A showcase farm park at the core of the Lingbi Sanhe provincial modern-agriculture demonstration zone, built around four large glasshouses: an agricultural science hall, an 'urban forest' hall, a desert-plant hall and a hall of city gardens and vegetable plots.
Lingbi Stone Culture Park 灵璧奇石文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped park on the south-western side of Lingbi town, by the old Bian river, devoted to Lingbi stone, the ringing, intricately shaped limestone counted among China's four famous ornamental stones and used since antiquity for chime stones.
New Bian River Scenic Area 新汴河 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped riverside park along the New Bian River, a canal dug in the late 1960s for flood relief and irrigation, roughly parallel to the long-silted Bian canal of the Sui and Tang, where it passes the north of Suzhou city.
Suzhou Museum (Anhui) 宿州市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum of Suzhou in northern Anhui, opened in 2010 in a Han-style building on a raised platform and rated a national first-grade museum in 2020.
Grand Canal, Sixian Section 隋唐大运河泗县段 National heritage site · on the map
The only stretch of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal in Anhui that still carries water: 28 km of the Tongji Canal, dug in 605 to join the Yellow River to the Huai, winds through Si county, and the 5.8 km section north-east of the county town is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014.

Tongling 11 sites

Datong Ancient Town 大通古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Datong, on the Yangtze south-west of Tongling, was one of Anhui's main river ports, and the sandbank of Heyuezhou across the narrow Que River was from the 1860s to the 1930s a salt market and steamer landing nicknamed 'Little Shanghai', with three streets and thirteen lanes.
Fenghuang Mountain 凤凰山 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of low hills in Shun'an town, south-east of Tongling, known for Fengdan medicinal peony and named in 2000 'China's home of the medicinal peony'.
Fushan Mountain 浮山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An extinct volcano of the early Cretaceous on the shore of Baidang Lake in northern Zongyang, which seems to float on the water and is called 'the foremost literary mountain' for the poets who came here, from Meng Jiao and Bai Juyi in the Tang to Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi and Wang Yangming.
Liqiao Water Town 犁桥水镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A village in Xilian town, north-east of Tongling, redeveloped into a 'water town' resort around its old street, where Ming and Qing buildings have been restored as small museums, a crafts street and boutique inns.
Qishan Hanwu Cultural Park 汉武文化生态园 4A scenic area · on the map
A public hillside park on Qishan in Zongyang county town, themed on Emperor Wu of the Han, who by local tradition shot a flood dragon in the Yangtze at Zongyang on a southern tour and wrote the 'Song of Shengtang and Zongyang'; Zongyang became a county in 106 BC.
Tianjing Lake Park 天井湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake park of over 1,200 mu in the centre of Tongling, named after the 'heavenly well' on a small island in the lake.
Tongling Museum 铜陵市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum of Tongling, long known as China's 'ancient copper capital', is devoted to bronze and copper culture.
West Lake Wetland Park, Tongling 西湖湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
An urban wetland park laid out around West Lake in the Xihu new district on Tongling's north-eastern side, with lakes, planted woodland and paths for walking.
Wutong Flower Valley 梧桐花谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside flower park in Zhongming town on Tongling's eastern border with Nanling and Fanchang, covering 15.4 km² of hills and farmland.
Yongquan Resort 永泉旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm-stay resort in the Yeshan forest park in Zhongming town, eastern Tongling, built in Huizhou garden style, with guest houses and villas, a food street of local snacks in Jiangnan-style buildings and a collection of Huizhou carvings.
Jinniudong Ancient Copper Mine 金牛洞古采矿遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Tongling has been called China's 'ancient copper capital', and the Dagongshan–Fenghuangshan mines straddling the Nanling–Tongling border were worked from the Western Zhou to the Song.

Wuhu 19 sites

Fantawild Resort, Wuhu 芜湖方特 5A scenic area · on the map
A cluster of Fantawild theme parks in Jiujiang District on Wuhu's north-eastern side, run by the Huaqiang Fantawild group.
Dapu Rural World 大浦乡村世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An agricultural tourism park at Dapu in Xuzhen town, northern Nanling County, that mixes flower fields and farm displays with family amusements.
Jiuzi Ancient Town 鸠兹古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A newly built old-style town in Jiujiang District, developed by the Xinhualian group around the theme of the Huizhou merchants and put up by craftsmen in hand-worked Huizhou style.
Jiuzi Scenic Area (Mirror Lake) 鸠兹风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
Wuhu's central lakeside district, made up of Jiuzi Square, Mirror Lake Park and the Zhongshan Road pedestrian street; Jiuzi is the city's ancient name.
Maren Qifeng 马仁奇峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested range of limestone peaks rising to 316 m in Suncun town, where Fanchang meets Nanling and Tongling, protected as a national forest park and national geopark.
Shanshuijian Red Tourism Area 红色山水涧 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural scenic area in Hongmiao town, north-western Wuwei, built around the former headquarters of the Communist-led New Fourth Army's 7th Division, which fought in the Wanjiang region along the Yangtze during the war against Japan.
Taoxin Shuiyun Water Country 陶辛水韵 4A scenic area · on the map
A water-country landscape around Taoxin town in Wanzhi District, between the Qingyi and Qing'an rivers, where an old grid of waterways is lined with large lotus fields.
Wang Jiaxiang Memorial Park 王稼祥纪念园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial garden built in 1986 on Shizi Hill in central Wuhu, in the grounds of the former St James Middle School, an Anglican mission school where the Communist leader Wang Jiaxiang (1906–1974) studied in 1924–25.
Yugeng Hill Cultural Park 雨耕山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A small hill beside the Catholic cathedral in central Wuhu whose mission buildings were turned in 2013 into a cultural and creative park with a wine theme.
Zhenshui Guanxiang Water Village 枕水官巷 4A scenic area · on the map
Guanxiang is an old village in Liulang town, Wanzhi District, ringed by ponds planted with lotus and water lilies; the Tao family genealogy records 13 imperial officials from the village after the Song, whose private lanes gave it the name 'Officials' Lanes'.
Zheshan Park 赭山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park in the middle of Wuhu covering the two summits of Zheshan, named for its reddish-brown rock; the higher peak is 84.8 m and has long been the place to look out over the city and the Yangtze.
Fanchang Kiln Archaeological Park 繁昌窑遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A kiln site of the Five Dynasties and Northern Song on the northern slopes of Ruomaojian and Zhuizishan hills, just south of Fanchang town, which specialised in bluish-white qingbai porcelain fired one piece to a saggar.
Former British Consulate, Wuhu 英驻芜领事署旧址 National heritage site · on the map
After the 1876 Chefoo Convention opened Wuhu as a treaty port, Britain built its consulate on Fanluo Hill above the Yangtze: the hilltop office of 1877 is a two-storey colonial building with arcaded verandahs on three sides, grey brick banded with red and a hipped iron roof.
Former Residence of Dai Anlan 戴安澜故居 National heritage site · on the map
The family home of Dai Anlan (1904–1942), a Nationalist army major general who commanded the 200th Division in the battles of Kunlun Pass and Toungoo and died of wounds in May 1942 while withdrawing from Burma.
Guangji Temple, Wuhu 广济寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist temple on the south-western slope of Zheshan hill in central Wuhu, founded in the 890s and long called 'Little Jiuhua' because pilgrims bound for Mount Jiuhua stopped here first to venerate a gold seal of the bodhisattva Dizang said to date from 757.
Huangjin Pagoda 黄金塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Northern Song pagoda, dated in the county heritage register to 998, that stands beside the West River in Fenghe village on the edge of Wuwei's main town.
Old Wuhu Customs House 老芜湖海关旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Wuhu's customs office, opened in 1877 after the Chefoo Convention made the city a treaty port, moved in 1919 into this building on the Yangtze waterfront, now inside Binjiang Park.
Renzidong Palaeolithic Site 人字洞遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A fossil-bearing cave site on the southern slope of Laili Hill in Suncun town, Fanchang, discovered in 1998 and dated to the early Pleistocene, about 2.2–2.56 million years ago.
St. Joseph Cathedral, Wuhu 芜湖天主堂 National heritage site
A large Romanesque-style Catholic church on Heer Hill above the Yangtze in central Wuhu, built by French Jesuits: the first church was burned shortly before completion in the Wuhu riot of 1891, and the present building was finished in 1895 with the indemnity money.

Xuancheng 32 sites

Longchuan Village 龙川 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Longchuan is a Hu-clan village on the Dengyuan River 11 km east of Jixi county town, where the Ming general and official Hu Zongxian was born in 1512.
China Xuan Paper Culture Park 中国宣纸文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
Jing County is the home of Xuan paper, the absorbent paper prized for Chinese calligraphy and painting, whose hand-making craft is on the UNESCO intangible heritage list.
Chinese Alligator Scenic Area 扬子鳄景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor area of the Anhui Chinese Alligator National Nature Reserve's breeding base on the southern edge of Xuancheng, opened to tourists in 1987 as 'China Alligator Lake' and renamed in 2016.
Enlong World Wooden House Village 恩龙世界木屋村 4A scenic area · on the map
A resort and leisure park opened in 2001 on a 150-hectare site in the Qinglongwan forest area, built around clusters of timber holiday villas.
Former New Fourth Army Headquarters, Yunling 新四军军部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
From July 1938 to January 1941 the Communist-led New Fourth Army had its headquarters at Yunling, 25 km west of Jing county town, with its offices spread across 13 hamlets in a valley.
Guantang Lake Eco-Tourism Area 官塘湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately developed eco-tourism and leisure area on the shore of Guantang Lake in the north of Xuancheng's economic development zone, formerly called the Guantang Lake Eco-Sightseeing Garden.
Guantianxia Scenic Area (Shifo Mountain and Tianzi Lake) 观天下 4A scenic area · on the map
This scenic area in Yaocun township, Langxi County, joins Shifo (Stone Buddha) Mountain, a 353 m hill long known as a Buddhist mountain, with Tianzi Lake, a 3.5 km² reservoir on its eastern side.
Huangtian Village 黄田 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Huangtian, in Langqiao town south of Jing county town, is a village of the Zhu clan founded in the Song whose Qing-dynasty houses survive in unusual numbers: 57 sites with 110 buildings.
Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail 徽杭古道 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail is a stone-paved mountain path, begun in the Tang, along which Huizhou merchants carried goods towards Hangzhou, and it is now a popular hiking route.
Jiangcun Village 江村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiangcun is a village of the Jiang clan in Baidi town, Jingde County, founded in the Sui–Tang period and at its height in the Qing, and listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2005.
Jingting Mountain 敬亭山 4A scenic area · on the map
Jingting Mountain is a range of low wooded hills on Xuancheng's northern edge, rising to 324 m at Cuiyun Peak, and is known as the 'poetry mountain' of the south.
Longquan Cave 龙泉洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave in the Shuidong area, south-east of Xuancheng, more than 2 km long, with halls such as the Milky Way Hall and White Dragon Palace and an underground river.
Qinglongwan Eco-Tourism Resort 青龙湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Qinglongwan is the resort area around Qinglong Lake, the reservoir of the Gangkouwan dam west of Ningguo, where about 34 km² of water and 38 islands lie among forested hills.
Qingqing Farm Estate 箐箐庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm park of about 100 hectares in Xinhang town, run by a local company that grows kiwifruit and raises free-range chickens.
Shuidong Old Town 水东古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Shuidong is a market town 29 km south-east of Xuancheng that grew rich in the Ming and Qing on river trade along the Shuiyang River and on its candied jujubes, and was named a national historic and cultural town in 2008.
Shuimo Tingxi Scenic Area 水墨汀溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in Tingxi, south-east Jing County, made up of the Danankeng, Majialing and Taoling sections across a planned 40 km² with about 80 per cent forest cover.
Taiji Cave 太极洞 4A scenic area
Taiji Cave is a limestone cave system in Shilong Mountain, 38 km north-east of Guangde near where Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang meet; it is about 5.4 km long and was opened to visitors in 1986.
Taohuatan (Peach Blossom Pool) 桃花潭 4A scenic area · on the map
Taohuatan is a deep pool on the river 40 km west of Jing county town, famous from Li Bai's poem 'To Wang Lun', written when his friend saw him off here.
Wannan Incident Martyrs' Cemetery 皖南事变烈士陵园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial cemetery opened in 1991 at the southern foot of Shuixi Hill, on the western edge of Jing county town, for the New Fourth Army soldiers killed in the Wannan (South Anhui) Incident of January 1941.
Xialin Jiutian Waterfalls 夏霖九天银瀑 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested valley of about 11 km² at Xialin village in Zhongxi town, where the Huangshan and Tianmu ranges meet, known for its many waterfalls.
Xuanjiu Liquor Culture Park 宣酒文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor park of the Xuanjiu baijiu distillery in Xuancheng's economic development zone, presenting the local liquor and how it is made.
Zhaji Village 查济 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Zhaji, 60 km west of Jing county town, has been home to the Zha clan since the Sui dynasty and stretches for about 1.5 km along three streams.
Zhangshan Grand Canyon 鄣山大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge scenic area of about 15 km² at the southern entrance to the Qingliangfeng national nature reserve, 22 km south-east of Jixi county town where the Tianmu and Huangshan ranges meet.
Zhuwang Village 朱旺村 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhuwang is a traditional village in Caijiaqiao town, Jingde County, with a history of about 1,300 years and 47 well-preserved Ming and Qing buildings.
Former Residence of Wang Jiaxiang 王稼祥故居 National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing house in Hou'an village, Taohuatan town, where Wang Jiaxiang, a Communist Party leader and the People's Republic's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, was born in 1906 and lived during his primary-school years.
Guangjiao Temple Twin Pagodas 广教寺双塔 National heritage site
Two seven-storey brick pagodas, about 17 m tall and imitating timber construction, were built in 1096 under the Northern Song and stand 26.9 m apart at the south-eastern foot of Jingting Mountain.
Jingde Confucian Temple 旌德文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Jingde's Confucian temple in the county town was founded under the Northern Song and repaired through the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republican periods.
Shangzhuang Village 上庄 National heritage site
Shangzhuang, in western Jixi County, is the home village of Hu Shi, the scholar and diplomat who was a leading figure of the New Culture Movement.
Shuixi Twin Pagodas 水西双塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two Song-dynasty brick pagodas stand on the south-eastern slope of Baiyun Hill at Shuixi, 2 km west of Jing county town on the far side of the Qingyi River.
Tianshou Temple Pagoda 天寿寺塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey hexagonal brick-and-timber pagoda, 42.8 m tall, on Yingchun Street in the centre of Guangde and the only survivor of Tianshou Temple.
Xianren Pagoda 仙人塔 National heritage site · on the map
Xianren (Immortal) Pagoda, also called Dangyang Pagoda, is a seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda built in 1143 under the Southern Song and repaired in the Qing.
Zhang Ancestral Hall, Jingxian 张氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A clan hall of the Zhang family in Houshan village, Dingjiaqiao town, first built in the Hongzhi era of the Ming and rebuilt in 1880.

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