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Mount Langya 琅琊山Lángyá Shān
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Chuzhou, Anhui
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chuzhou
- Region
- Anhui
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Mount Langya
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). Up the valley is Langya Temple, founded in the 760s, whose Beamless Hall, a Ming brick-vaulted hall with no timber beams, is national heritage, as are more than 400 cliff and stele inscriptions, seven of them Tang, around the temple and the Zuiweng and Fengle pavilions. Lake Shenxiu, the Huifeng Pavilion and old paths make it a half-day walk.
How to get to Mount Langya
On the south-western edge of Chuzhou, a short taxi or bus ride from the city centre.
Nearby
- City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 60 km
The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate - Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 60 km
Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai - Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 60 km
A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb
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