Chongqing City Walls (Tongyuanmen and Dongshuimen) 重庆古城墙Chóngqìng Gǔ Chéngqiáng

About Chongqing City Walls (Tongyuanmen and Dongshuimen)

Surviving stretches of the walls of old Chongqing, rebuilt in 1373 under the Ming on earlier foundations and set along the cliffs above the Yangtze and Jialing rivers; of the 17 gates only three open gates and one closed gate remain, as much of the circuit was pulled down from the 1920s. The protected sections are at Tongyuanmen, where a city-wall park with rebuilt towers opened in 2005, and at Dongshuimen above the Yangtze beside the Huguang Guild Hall. A 15 km walking route around the Yuzhong peninsula follows the old wall line.

How to get to Chongqing City Walls (Tongyuanmen and Dongshuimen)

In Yuzhong District: Tongyuanmen is on Zhongshan 1st Road near Qixinggang, about 1 km west of Jiefangbei; Dongshuimen is on the Yangtze side next to the Huguang Guild Hall.

Nearby

• Hongyadong & Chongqing Night Views 洪崖洞 under 10 km
  A cliffside stack of stilt houses glowing gold over the river every night

Also within 20 km: Former Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan and Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission 国民政府立法院、司法院及蒙藏委员会旧址 (under 10 km), Former Site of the National Political Council 国民参政会旧址 (under 10 km), Jiefangbei (People's Liberation Monument) 解放碑 (under 10 km), Former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government 国民政府外交部旧址 (under 10 km), Chongqing People's Auditorium & People's Square 重庆人民大礼堂 (under 10 km), Yangtze River Cableway 长江索道 (under 10 km).

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