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Keyuan 可园Kě Yuán
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Dongguan, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Dongguan
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Keyuan
A compact Lingnan-style garden in Guancheng, built in the 1850s by the retired Qing official Zhang Jingxiu and counted among the four celebrated gardens of Guangdong. Halls, verandas, pools and rockeries are packed into a small plot, overlooked by the four-storey Ke Tower, the garden's tallest building. The painters Ju Chao and Ju Lian lived here for some ten years, and their work is seen as a forerunner of the Lingnan school of painting.
How to get to Keyuan
In Guancheng, the old centre of Dongguan, a short taxi ride from downtown. Closed on Tuesdays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Canton Tower & Pearl River 广州塔 40 km
A slim-waisted tower glowing over the Pearl River in China's Cantonese food capital
Also within 20 km: Quejin Pavilion Stele 却金亭碑 (under 10 km), Haogang Midden Site Museum 蚝岗遗址博物馆 (under 10 km), Dongguan Exhibition Hall 东莞展览馆 (under 10 km), Dongguan Science and Technology Museum 东莞市科学技术博物馆 (under 10 km), Xiangshi Zoo 香市动物园 (10 km), Shilong South Bridge of the Kowloon–Canton Railway 广九铁路石龙南桥 (10 km).
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