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Liaodi Pagoda 料敌塔Liàodí Tǎ
National heritage site · Baoding, Hebei
- Time needed
- About an hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Baoding
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Liaodi Pagoda
The Liaodi Pagoda, in the former Kaiyuan Temple precinct of Dingzhou, is an octagonal, eleven-storey brick tower about 84 m tall and is regarded as the tallest surviving historic brick pagoda in China. It was built between 1001 and 1055 under the Northern Song to house Buddhist relics brought from India, and doubled as a lookout against the Khitan Liao to the north, hence the name meaning 'enemy-spotting pagoda'. The ground-floor corridor keeps Song-dynasty murals.
How to get to Liaodi Pagoda
In the old town of Dingzhou, near the south gate; Dingzhou is about 58 km south-west of Baoding (about 66 km by road).
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Former Residence of Yan Yangchu 晏阳初旧居 (under 10 km), Dingzhou Confucian Temple 定州文庙 (under 10 km), Dingzhou Examination Hall 定州贡院 (under 10 km), Dingzhou Mosque 定州清真寺 (under 10 km), Dingzhou Han Tomb and Stone Carving Museum 定州汉墓石刻馆 (under 10 km), Jade Emperor Hall of Dadao Temple, Dingzhou 大道观玉皇殿 (under 10 km).
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